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Fuck Yeah, Female Astronauts!: letsdolaunch:... →
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Today in history: Sally Ride & Guion Bluford Jr became the 1st woman & African-American selected for the NASA Astronaut program in 1982.
Actually they were a part of Group 8 (the TFNGs) selected in 1978.
Both made their first space flights in 83, if I’m not mistaken.
*jerk*
i believe on April 19, 1982 they were both tapped to fly....
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Great interview with Mike Mullane on Discovery’s final ferry flight. Hope his grandson will get to follow in his footsteps…
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March 2012
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Re: The zombie-appocalypse fandom question →
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kaiyves:
(I can’t reblog because of the swearing, but…)
Gus Grissom, John Young, Judy Resnik, a random test pilot dude and lots of MOCR guys. BRING IT!
I got Neil, Buzz, Dick Gordon, Jim Lovell, Gene Kranz…yeah, I think I’ll survive!
Charlie Bolden, Brian Duffy, Kathy Sullivan, Dave Leestma, Mike Foale, Byron Lichtenberg, and Dirk Frimout (STS-45); along with George Lucas...
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Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Cockpit shots, 1982 and...
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Top, left-to-right: Joseph Algranti, Francis “Dick” Scobee, and Louis E. Guidry.
Bottom: Jeff Moultrie, Bob Zimmerman, and Henry Taylor.
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On a more positive note, we here at The F***ing New Guys would like to wish Apollo 15 CMP Al Worden (one of our favorite non-TFNG astronauts) a very happy 80th birthday today!
*In addition to performing the first deep-space EVA in 1971 and driving a kick-ass Corvette with his crewmates Dave Scott and Jim Irwin, Col. Worden also wrote a fantastic book, Falling to Earth, which should be...
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NASA astronaut Janice Voss dies, flew on five...
From collectSPACE:
February 7, 2012 – Astronaut Janice Voss, a veteran of five spaceflights and a former science director for a NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, died Monday night (Feb. 6) after a battle with cancer. She was 55.
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