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Crew-1’s Glover Sets New Records for African-American Astronauts
At 7:13 p.m. EST Monday, #Crew1 & #ArtemisTeam member @AstroVicGlover becomes the most flight-experienced African-American astronaut with 43 days in space, passing @Astro_Stephanie. More
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We Shall Return: Remembering Apollo 17’s Departure from the Moon, OTD in 1972
As NASA’s #ArtemisTeam prepares to return humans to the Moon, AmericaSpace looks back on the last time people were on the lunar surface, OTD in 1972. More
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Like Night Flying: Remembering STS-35, OTD in 1990
OTD in 1990 (after a summer of delays & with PLT Guy Gardner’s hair smoothly combed), #Columbia flew the long-delayed ASTRO-1 mission to study the Universe. More
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Mostly Your Knees: Remembering STS-9, OTD in 1983
OTD in 1983, Columbia launched Spacelab-1, a precursor for today’s @Space_Station. And STS-9 CDR John Young’s knees were knocking all the way uphill. More
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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerYou Mean the City? Remembering Challenger’s Last Successful Launch, OTD in 1985
OTD in 1985, shuttle #Challenger launched successfully for the last time & completed a week-long research flight for what was then West Germany. More
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in NASA, Shuttle, ChallengerRemembering the Shuttle Night Landings (Part 2)
37 years after STS-8, AmericaSpace looks back at some of the highs & lows of landing the Space Shuttle at night. More
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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerRemembering the First Shuttle Night Landing, OTD in 1983 (Part 1)
OTD in 1983, #Challenger landed at night after STS-8. It was the first of 26 shuttle night landings. More
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in Shuttle, Space, Challenger‘I Didn’t Touch a Thing’: Remembering Challenger’s Pad Abort, OTD in 1985
OTD in 1985, the crew of Challenger suffered a close-call on the launch pad: a shutdown of the shuttle’s main engines, seconds before liftoff. More
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Window on the Universe: Remembering the Launch of Hubble, OTD in 1990
Thirty years ago today, shuttle Discovery and her five astronauts rocketed higher above the Home Planet than any human crew since the end of the Apollo lunar landing era. By the time STS-31 Commander Loren Shriver, Pilot Charlie Bolden and Mission Specialists Steve Hawley, Kathy Sullivan and Bruce McCandless settled into orbit, they were soaring […] More
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in Shuttle, Space, ChallengerRemembering Challenger’s Lost Innocence, OTD in 1986
For those of us of a certain age, there can be few more horrific images imprinted upon our long-term memories than the sight of shuttle Challenger exploding in the sky above Cape Canaveral on 28 January 1986. For me, a nine-year-old boy growing up in England, the event was played out live on television and […] More
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‘To Finish the Paint Job’: Remembering Pad 39B, 50 Years After First Rollout
For five decades, Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has served as the starting-point for some of the most pivotal missions in U.S. spaceflight history—from the launches of three Skylab crews and the astronauts of Apollo-Soyuz to more than 50 Space Shuttle flights and the first (and last) flight of the ill-fated Ares […] More
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in NASA, Space, Challenger, space shuttle‘Major Malfunction’: Remembering the Sacrifice of the Challenger Seven
On this day in 1986, the sight of shuttle Challenger exploding in the skies above Cape Canaveral painted an indelible mark on the public psyche and still carries the power to haunt. Over the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years to come, the loss of the shuttle and her seven-member crew—Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot […] More
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