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Day of Remembrance 2011

Posted by Danielle in Picspam on January 27, 2011

Today is NASA’s Day of Remembrance, when we remember our fallen astronaut heroes, particularly the crews of Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger and Space Shuttle Columbia. They gave their lives, that we might continue to venture into the heavens.

Apollo 1 crew patch January 27, 1967 — Apollo 1
Grissom • White • Chaffee

STS-51L January 28, 1986 — Challenger/STS-51L
Scobee • Smith • Resnik • Onizuka
McNair • Jarvis • McAuliffe

STS-107 February 1, 2003 — Columbia/STS-107
Husband • McCool • Anderson • Brown
Chawla • Clark • Ramon

→ Watch NASA’s Day of Remembrance tribute

apollo 1, astronauts, challenger, columbia, remembrance

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Orbiter Tributes

Posted by Danielle in Perspectives, Picspam on August 26, 2010

The Kennedy Media Gallery recently posted these beautiful “tribute” graphics to each orbiter — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. They are well worth downloading at the large size, so you can see all the patches and details. All five hang in Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

atlantis, challenger, columbia, discovery, endeavour, nasa, shuttle

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Free Flyer

Posted by Danielle in Picspam on September 30, 2009

A lovely (or harrowing) picture of the first untethered spacewalk, back in 1984:

At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an “untethered space walk” during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit.

astronauts, challenger, evas, shuttle, sts-41b

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Astro-philatelics, part 49

Posted by Danielle in Currency & Postage on January 28, 2009

Today is the 23rd anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. These stamps are from Mali and were issued for the tenth anniversary of the disaster, in 1996.