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. […]

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'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 […]

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'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 […]

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