#Skylab

Alice Gorman

drspacejunk

OTD in 1979, the first US space station #Skylab fell to Earth over Western Australia. It was a dramatic event that captured the imagination of the world. Today I am

Richard Jurek

rjurek

Moonwalker Alan Bean was my favorite @nasa astronaut of all time - talented, down to Earth, nicest guy you’d ever meet! He loved music — “anything with a beat.” So

Scott Manley

DJSnM

So today marks 20 years of continuous occupation of space. Sergei Krikalev, Bill Shepherd and Yuri Gidzenko.They weren’t the first people to visit the ISS... well actually Sergei was, but

People_of_Space: Nicholas

People_Of_Space

I meet a lot of astronauts through work and they are inspirational people doing an extraordinary job. Personalities vary. They can be formidable, fun, friendly, serious, lighthearted, warm or coolly

daniel

DMOberhaus

In defense of secondhand space stations:https://www.wired.com/story/the-plan-to-turn-scrapped-rockets-into-space-stations/ Every commercial rocket brings its upper stage right to the cusp of orbital velocity. Then it burns up on a fall back

Peperche Hernandez

PepercheH

En un hilo anterior comenté que el Apolo 17 no había sido la última misión Apolo. A finales de los 60, un esfuerzo entre las dos superpotencias enfrentadas en una

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