Chandra Science · @ChandraScience
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This weekend we celebrated our 24th Birthday! Since our launch on the Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999 (Eileen Collins commanding) we have been exploring the cosmos and bringing the high energy Universe into focus. Here's to 24 more years!

#Astrodon #astronomy #ChandraXRay #nasa #science #XraysAreTheBestRays #SpaceShuttle #astrophysics

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Terry Hancock · @TerryHancock
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But the next best thing is a 2-stage solution, and the experience with (and also the orbiter and also the development work from the / DC-X program) shows that if you could make that work, you might be able to reuse both pieces.

Early Space Shuttle designs also called for a liquid-fueled "fly-back booster". That design was abandoned for budget reasons. Leading to the fateful decision to use solid rocket boosters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sh

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#Falcon #SpaceShuttle #deltaclipper

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Ken Hollis - GandalfDDI · @GandalfDDI
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For someone working the work I aways quote from Theodore Roosevelt's "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles". That being said WHO IS RUNNING THE at ? !!!!!

I worked on the Main Propulsion System and Space Shuttle Main engines for MANY years and I was ABSOLUTELY AGHAST at today's launch by @SpaceX

Specifically:
1) Launch without all engines running? WHY? I know you have redundancy but YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO LAUNCH UNTIL ALL OF THEM ARE UP & RUNNING TO GET A REAL TEST! Think is going to allow launch with even one engine out?
2) No water sound suppression system to speak of? The body flap of Columbia STS-1 was almost ripped off because of not enough sound suppression
3) No flame trench/solid concrete below? Kicks up all kinds of FOD that DAMAGES YOUR ROCKET!
4) Pogo is WELL understood, there were Pogo accumulators on the SSME "just in case"

Keep going like this and MIGHT make it to orbit in 4 or 5 launches.

#clowncar #spacex #SpaceShuttle #starship #nasa

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Starguy Mark · @Starguy_Mark
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Here are the eight astronauts who hailed from the state of . Raja Chari is Iowa's most recent addition and currently training for NASA's crewed flights on Artemis and Orion.

#IOWA #nasa #apollo #SpaceShuttle #artemis

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Terry Jones · @Intrinsically_Safe
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RealSolo · @RealSolo
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Sorry , but did have 'pivotal moments'. Many of the GenX had the opportunity to sit in a cafeteria or school gym & watch as NASA was set to make as they were sending

Sadly did make history, just not the kind anyone wanted to see or .

We watched as the lifted off after about 60 seconds we saw it absolutely explode & disintegrate killing all 7 astronauts

#millennials #genx #history #teacherastronaut #civilian #christamcaulliffe #nasa #remember #SpaceShuttle #challenger #neverforget

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· @Andreseloy
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RT @Astro_Cady
Remembering & the crew 20 years after the tragedy, 2/1/2003. Per aspera ad astra. We will always remember Kalpana, Rick, Laurel, Ilan, David, William & Michael.

nasa.gov/feature/20-years-ago-

(📷:@NASA)

#SpaceShuttle #columbia #sts107 #OTD

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Marwella Zhang · @marwellaspaceart
199 followers · 231 posts · Server astrodon.social

Launchversary, STS-122!

Space Shuttle Antlantis STS-122 was launched to ISS, carrying Columbus Laboratory in 2008.

Oil painting on 10x15cm canvas.

#space #spaceart #rocket #SpaceShuttle #painting

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David Farnell · @azzageddi
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@arstechnica Fascinating read, and brings back the heartbreak of Columbia’s loss.

#nasa #NASAhistory #space #SpaceShuttle #alternatehistory

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Mateo · @Ligeirinho
102 followers · 150 posts · Server mapstodon.space

Octavia Butler* on the final crew of the Columbia

“The second book I can recall buying new was a book about the stars.” Oh my heart 💖

* From 10.45.

pbs.org/newshour/science/how-o

#Space #scifi #SpaceShuttle

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Dude · @catchphrase
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Tomorrow is an interesting day for me.

It's my .
It's
It's the day a O-ring seal failed on the

#birthday #dataprotectionday #SpaceShuttle #privacy #nasa #safety

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Dude · @catchphrase
10 followers · 187 posts · Server halifaxsocial.ca

Tomorrow is an interesting day for me.

It's my .
It's
It's the day a O-ring seal failed on the

#birthday #dataprotectionday #SpaceShuttle

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JohannesWilhelm · @AdmiralWilhelm
20 followers · 11 posts · Server spacey.space

The Dream is Alive. An IMAX film narrated by Walter Cronkite about 's missions.

vimeo.com/541887307

#engineering #hypersonic #space #rocket #sts #SpaceShuttle #nasa

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JohannesWilhelm · @AdmiralWilhelm
19 followers · 7 posts · Server spacey.space

@LM_Steve over at Birdsite shared a fragment of this video which I saw many moons ago at a planetarium.

It's an IMAX film called "Hail Columbia" and it's a tribute to Columbia's maiden flight and the first STS mission

Click and VOLUME UP at 3' 48":
vimeo.com/16297892/recommended

It's a collage of launch and landing footage. For those of you old enough to remember when all Americans were united behind our space program under

🇺🇸

#space #rocketlaunches #engineering #nasa #SpaceShuttle

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Llordllama · @Llordllama
54 followers · 300 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

From the archives today...it's my small collection of related newspapers.

instagram.com/p/CnMJE1JLk_c/?i

#SpaceShuttle

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liprap · @liprap
160 followers · 556 posts · Server awscommunity.social

RT @Astro_Cady
1/3/1986: The Soviet made its second analog test flight, reaching Maximum speed 520 kph. maximum altitude 3000 m. Time 36 minutes. Aboard were cosmonauts Rimantas Antanas-Antano Stankevicius and Igor Volk:

#otd #SpaceShuttle #buran

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Fake Fakten · @fakefakten
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Die "Astronaut" wird im komplett anders genutzt. Sie dient dort als Toilette.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronau

#astronaut #SpaceShuttle #Weltraum #Kaffeetasse

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Ann Sutton · @annsutton
129 followers · 323 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

Atlantis on display at

#SpaceShuttle #kennedyspacecenter

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Aviation Librarian · @Aviation_Librarian
725 followers · 156 posts · Server mastodon.online

Space Shuttle Columbia Postcard

#SpaceShuttle #postcard #space #B747 #nasa

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