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‘Good to Be Here’: Remembering Discovery’s Final Launch, 10 Years On
10 years ago today, “the ship which led the way time and time again” was launched into space for the final time. Her name: Discovery. More
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Crew-1 Brings Wide Range of Experience to Space Station Mission (Part 2)
Part 2 of @AmericaSpace’s in-depth look at the #Crew1 astronauts focuses on Mission Specialists @Astro_Soichi & Shannon Walker. #LaunchAmerica More
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Stop the Clock: Remembering STS-51A, OTD in 1984
OTD in 1984, STS-51A launched on a dramatic satellite rescue mission. And for CDR Rick Hauck, their success was nothing short of an (ahem) “miracle”. More
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in Discovery, John Glenn‘Zero-G and I Feel Fine’: Remembering John Glenn’s Return to Space, OTD in 1998
OTD in 1998, #JohnGlenn returned to space on Discovery as part of 7-person #STS95 crew, incl @AstroDocScott & @astro_duque. More
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‘Never So Much Time’: Remembering STS-41 and Ulysses, 30 Years On
OTD in 1990, Space Shuttle Discovery launched @NASA & @ESA #Ulysses mission to explore the poles of the #Sun. After 30yrs, AmericaSpace looks back on this dramatic mission. 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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‘Shakin’ a Bunch’: Remembering STS-70, 25 Years On
OTD in 1995, shuttle Discovery on STS-70 tested new main engines, was run from a new Mission Control Room & a New Yorker became an honorary Ohioan. More
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Beautiful Shoes: Americans Launching and Landing on the Fourth of July
On the morning of 4 July 1982, a rapidly-moving black-and-white speck appeared on the horizon at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., bringing a pair of U.S. space explorers back to Earth after a week in orbit. Minutes later, at 12:09 p.m. EDT (9:09 a.m. PDT), shuttle Columbia and her crew of Commander Ken Mattingly and […] More
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Of Frogs and Princes: Remembering Shuttle Mission 51G, OTD in 1985
Thirty-five years ago today, on 17 June 1985, a spacecraft roared aloft with a crew representing the largest number of nations ever flown into space and carrying the largest load of satellites ever put into space at that time by a crewed vehicle. Aboard veteran shuttle Discovery for Mission 51G—the fourth of nine flights undertaken […] More
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Woodpecker Attack: Remembering STS-70, 25 Years On
Over its 30-year career, many things attacked the Space Shuttle, from lawmakers keen to cut NASA’s budget to anti-nuclear protesters anxious not to launch the plutonium-fueled Galileo mission to Jupiter and from poor weather to dropped tools and near-catastrophic technical maladies. That is not to forget, of course, two appalling tragedies which claimed not only […] More
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in News, NASA, Space, Science, Kennedy Space Center, ESA, JWST, James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Kepler, Discovery, astronomy, space shuttle, Technology, Exoplanets, Saturn, Neptune, Voyager, black holes, habitability, Galaxies, galaxy clusters, Universe, dark energyCelebrating Hubble’s 30th Anniversary… and Looking Beyond to the Next 30 Years
April 24 marked the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which has given humanity some of the most awe-inspiring images of the cosmos ever taken. Hubble has revealed sights never seen before, and new views of old favourites, including planets, stars, nebulas, galaxies and black holes. More
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Somebody Get a Camera: Remembering the Deployment of Hubble, OTD in 1990
Thirty years ago today, the hands of humans and robots parted company with the Hubble Space Telescope for the final time before it began its momentous voyage to explore the Universe. Almost two decades in the making—and a half-century in the human imagination—Hubble had weathered financial and technical woes as it weaved its way from […] More
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