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Nice Round Number: Remembering the Arrival of Canadarm2, 20 Years On

By Ben Evans, on April 19th, 2021

OTD in 2001, the Big Arm was launched to @Space_Station, enabling a critical tool which for 20 years has helped build, maintain & restock the orbital outpost. […]

Not For Geeks? Remembering STS-73's Mission Impossible, 25 Years On

By Ben Evans, on October 20th, 2020

OTD in 1995, #Columbia flew #STS73 after record-tying 6 scrubbed launch attempts. Her crew that day included future ISS residents @Astro_Cady & @CommanderMLA. […]

Kate Rubins Prepares for Birthday Ride to Space Station

By Ben Evans, on October 10th, 2020

When @Astro_Kate7 launches to the @Space_Station on Wednesday, she’ll become only the 5th American (and 1st woman) to ride a rocket to space on her birthday. […]

A Flight of Changes: 20 Years Since the Record-Setting Mission of STS-80 (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on November 20th, 2016

Upon touchdown on 7 December 1996, Columbia and her STS-80 crew set an empirical record for the longest single mission of the Space Shuttle Program. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

When the crew of STS-80—launched 20 years ago, this week—were assigned to their mission in January 1996, theirs was expected to be […]

Three-Spacecraft Ballet: 20 Years Since the Record-Setting Mission of STS-80 (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on November 19th, 2016

Columbia roars to orbit on 19 November 1996, 20 years ago, today. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

Twenty years ago, today, on 19 November 1996, the longest space shuttle mission in history got underway with the spectacular liftoff of Columbia from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. During […]

'Exploring Space as a Planet': 15 Years Since STS-100 Shook Hands at the Space Station (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on April 17th, 2016

The multi-national STS-100 crew comprised, in orange suits, from left, Yuri Lonchakov, Kent Rominger, Umberto Guidoni, Jeff Ashby, and John Phillips, and in white EVA suits Scott Parazynski (left) and Chris Hadfield. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

When NASA and its worldwide partners began assembling the International Space Station (ISS) in low-Earth […]

'Nice Round Number': 15 Years Since STS-100 Shook Hands at the Space Station (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on April 16th, 2016

15 years ago, this month, Canadarm2 was installed at the International Space Station (ISS). Shuttle mission STS-100 marked the first occasion that as many as four discrete nations had been represented on a single flight and saw Chris Hadfield become Canada’s first spacewalker. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

Within the last month, […]

'Without Travel Orders': 20 Years Since the Marathon Flight of STS-73 (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on October 18th, 2015

Clad in their respective “red” and “blue” shirts, to denote their membership of the 12-hour Red and Blue Teams, the STS-73 crew pose for an in-flight portrait in the Spacelab module. Front row (from left) are Kathy Thornton, Mike Lopez-Alegria, and Ken Bowersox, with Catherine “Cady” Coleman and Fred Leslie in the middle […]

'Not For Geeks': 20 Years Since the Marathon Mission of STS-73 (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on October 17th, 2015

With her port-side payload bay door positioned at 62-degrees-open, in order to guard against Micrometeoroid Orbital Debris (MMOD) impacts in a gravity gradient attitude, Columbia sails through her long-delayed 18th mission in October-November 1995. Photo Credit: NASA

The “geek” has long been recognized as an eccentric, non-mainstream individual, usually imbued with a peculiar […]

Four Space Shuttle Veterans Inducted Into US Astronaut Hall of Fame

By Emily Carney, on May 31st, 2015

Astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson (at podium) speaks prior to Dr. Rhea Seddon’s induction into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 30. From left: Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Chairman Daniel Brandenstein, Kent Rominger, Seddon, Steve Lindsey, John Grunsfeld, Gibson, and CNN’s John Zarrella. Photo Credit: Emily Carney / AmericaSpace

Four space shuttle […]

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