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‘Out on Parole’: Remembering STS-29, OTD in 1989
OTD in 1989, the astronauts of shuttle Discovery launched, deployed a communications satellite & received a rather unexpected wakeup call. More
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The Sun Kept Rising: Remembering Columbia’s Unflown Mission, 35 Years On
OTD in 1986, shuttle Columbia might have launched into the night on a mission to survey Halley’s Comet. Tragically, the loss of Challenger a few weeks earlier changed all that. More
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Firing Up the Shuttle: Remembering Columbia’s First Roar, 40 Years On
40yrs ago today, with a lion-like roar, Columbia came alive in a major test before the first Space Shuttle mission. More
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in Shuttle, Dream ChaserSNC Receives FAA Approval to Land Dream Chaser on Former Shuttle Runway
@SierraNevCorp & @SpaceFlorida take one step closer to landing Dream Chaser @Space_Station cargo missions back home at @NASAKennedy. More
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Stopping the Shuttle: Remembering the Drag Chute, 30 Years On
Until the very end of its life, NASA’s space shuttle fleet remained inherently dangerous. But 30yrs ago this month, work began to develop a technology which would make shuttle landings much safer. More
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‘Huffing and Puffing’: How Does Flying a Falcon 9 Compare to the Rest? (Part 2)
It’s rare that you can time a moment in history to a single split-second. But last Saturday, that split-second fell at 3:22:45 p.m. EDT, when American astronauts rode an American-made spacecraft, atop an American-built rocket, and from American soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle Program, almost nine years ago. […] 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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in SpaceLock the Doors: Remembering Columbia’s Final Homecoming, OTD in 2003
For 16 days in January 2003, the seven men and women of shuttle Columbia’s STS-107 crew—Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Mission Specialists Dave Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Mike Anderson and Laurel Clark and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon of Israel—worked around-the-clock to complete 80 scientific experiments spanning a variety of disciplines from life sciences to fluid […] More
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‘Stronger Than Required’: Remembering Skylab’s End, 40 Years On
Forty years ago, this summer, America’s first space station, Skylab, breathed its last and commenced a slow descent back to Earth, eventually to burn up in the atmosphere. The vast complex—a converted Saturn V S-IVB third stage, which remains the largest and most massive single object ever launched into orbit on a single booster—had been […] 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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‘Dying All Tensed-Up’: 30 Years Since the Troubled Secret Mission of STS-27
Thirty years ago, at 9:30 a.m. EST on 2 December 1988, Atlantis rocketed into crystal-blue Florida skies to begin the second shuttle mission in the wake of the Challenger tragedy. Two months earlier, her sister Discovery had brought the fleet back to active service and the task of the five STS-27 astronauts—Commander Robert “Hoot” Gibson, […] More
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‘A Vote For Our Future’: 20 Years Since Zarya Launched the International Space Station (Part 2)
Twenty years ago, on 20 November 1998, Russia’s Zarya (“Dawn”) module—the first component of the International Space Station (ISS)—was launched from Site 81 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, atop a mighty Proton-K booster. Less than nine minutes later, the 41-foot-long (12.5-meter) cylindrical module had separated from the final stage of its launch vehicle and […] More
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