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The remains of NASA 901, the T-38 jet which carried the Gemini IX prime crew of Elliot See and Charlie Bassett. Photo Credit: St. Louis Post-Dispatch archive At 7:41 a.m. CST on 28 February 1966—exactly 50 years ago, to this very day—a pair of sleek T-38 Talon jets took off from Ellington Field, near […] 
Assigned in November 1965, the Gemini IX crew of Elliot See (left) and Charlie Bassett were tasked with flying a 48-72-hour mission in the late spring of 1966. Their flight would have demonstrated rendezvous, docking, maneuvering, and spacewalking. Photo Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, this month, in February 1966, NASA and America’s effort to […] 
With Sergei Volkov (center) commanding the return to Earth, One-Year crewman Scott Kelly (left) and Mikhail Kornienko will wrap up the longest single space mission of the 21st century next week. Photo Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly/Twitter Scott Kelly has certainly been waxing lyrical recently, as he wraps up the last couple of percent of his […] 
Tim Kopra (center) works at the S-6 truss segment during the effort to replace the failed Sequential Shunt Unit (SSU) for Power Channel 1B. Photo Credit: NASA Expedition 46 astronauts Tim Kopra of NASA and Britain’s Tim Peake have completed a somewhat truncated four-hour and 43-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), successfully […] 
University researchers and engineers from University of North Dakota test their NDX-1 spacesuit inside the regolith bin at the Swamp Works facility at NASA KSC. Photo Credit: NASA Astronaut spacesuits have evolved to purpose a variety of tasks and missions since the historic flight of Alan Shepard in 1961. In the past, protective spacesuit […] Tomorrow’s U.S. EVA-33 will be the second spacewalk in just nine days for Expedition 45 astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter/Kimiya Yui Barely a week since their first career spacewalk together, Expedition 45 astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly will venture outside the Quest airlock of the International Space Station (ISS) […] With red stripes on the legs of his suit for identification, Scott Kelly emerges from the Quest airlock to begin the United States’ fourth EVA of 2015. Photo Credit: NASA For the fourth time this year, a pair of astronauts ventured outside the Quest airlock of the International Space Station (ISS) earlier today (Wednesday, […] Kjell Lindgren (background) and Scott Kelly check out their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs) in the Quest airlock, ahead of EVAs 32 and 33. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter Expedition 45 astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren are slated to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow (Wednesday, 28 October) for what has been described by […] Astronaut Story Musgrave is positioned to replace components at the end of Endeavour’s Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical arm on STS-61 in December 1993. Photo Credit: NASA More than two decades have passed since one of the most spectacular EVA missions in U.S. history: the long-awaited first servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). […] This iconic image, captured by astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson, shows Bruce McCandless participating in humanity’s first untethered EVA, aboard the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). Photo Credit: NASA When the crew of Mission 41B—the 10th shuttle flight and the fourth voyage by orbiter Challenger—released their official patch in the fall of 1983, it included in […] |
Next Launch PSN 6 / SpaceIL on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 22 Feb 19 at 1:45 GMT 21 Feb 19 at 8:45pm Eastern 
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