February 2012
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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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STS-61-MT....with Cake
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thef-ingnewguys:
STS-61-H
Planned Launch Date: June 24, 1986
Crew:
Michael L. Coats (CDR)
John E. Blaha (PLT)
Anna L. Fisher (MS1)
James F. Buchli (MS2)
Robert C. Springer (MS3)
Nigel Wood (PS1)
Pratiwi Sudarmono (PS2)
This mission, which would have carried the first British and Indonesian astronauts, was to deploy three communications satellites using Columbia. Most of the...
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January 2012
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"As Only NASA Can": Legendary Astronaut Shannon... →
asonlynasacan:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/jan/HQ_12-038_Lucid_Retires.txt
HOUSTON -- Shannon Lucid, a member of NASA's first astronaut class...
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December 2011
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