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Today is the day of Remembrance. NASA remembers their fallen astronauts, 10 years after the last shuttle disaster. NASA has set up a beautiful memorial site, which can be found here.
R.I.P.
When I was younger, I used to watch The Dream Is Alive every day after school.
Originally produced as something of an advertisment-on-steroids for Lockheed Martin, the landmark IMAX documentary takes its viewers behind the scenes of the fledgling Space Shuttle program, showcasing everything…
Damn awesome astronaut and glad he was one of the TFNGs.
January 27, 1967. Apollo 1: Gus Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chaffee. We will always REMEMBER!
R.I.P.
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The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad A., Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), Dec. 7, 1972.
Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA’s Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. Flame from the five F-1 engines of the Apollo/Saturn first (S-1C) stage illuminates the nighttime scene. A two-hour and 40-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.
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‘Astronaut Judith Resnik is greeted by family and friends after Resnik’s return to Ellington Air Force Base at the end of the STS 41-D mission.’
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Happy 70th Birthday to Guy Bluford!
*In addition to flying on four shuttle missions (STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, and STS-53) and becoming the first African-American to go into space in 1983, Colonel Bluford also served as a T-38 instructor pilot and has flown over 5,200 hours in various jet aircraft (along with 688 hours of spaceflight).
Today marks the end of STS-51-A, which launched on November 8, 1984 and landed eight days later on November 16. Discovery, crewed by Commander Rick Hauck, Pilot Dave Walker, and mission specialists Joe Allen, Anna Fisher, and Dale Gardner; launched two communication satellites and then conducted a spectacular retrieval of two disabled satellites (launched aboard STS-41-B that February) using the MMU.
First Female Astronaut Candidates
Taking a break from the various training exercises at a three-day water survival school held near Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, are some of the first female astronaut candidates in the U.S. space program. Left to right are Sally K. Ride, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Rhea Seddon.
Always a favorite around these parts!
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Happy Birthday to Rhea Seddon and Dale Gardner, who turn 65 and 64 years old (respectively) today!
*In addition to serving as a mission specialist on three shuttle flights (STS-51-D, STS-40, and STS-58) Dr. Seddon currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville, Tennessee.
*In addition to serving as a mission specialist on two shuttle flights (STS-8 and STS-51-A), Capt. Gardner logged over 2,300 hours of flight time in 20 different types of aircraft/spacecraft, with 337 of that total aboard Challenger and Discovery in orbit.
