Certainly a day to remember and a day to be inspired to achieve our dreams, no matter the risk they may involve.

May these smiles keep inspiring many generations… and then some more. 🚀✨

Pasting here a post from Office.

: 20 years ago , Feb 1, 2003, at 8:59am ET, space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry.

The entire crew perished.

Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon

We will never forget.”

Read more 👉 go.nasa.gov/3YezowF

#nasahistory #nasaremembers #otd #nasa #space #spaceshuttle #astronomy #science #astronauts #columbia #humanity #tech #technology #artemis #moon #mars #photo

Last updated 3 years ago

🎙️ ✨ A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine 
Show: Leading Edge Discovery Podcast With Astronaut Charlie Camarda Ph.D
Episode: Return-To-Flight Following The Columbia Accident With Space Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins
Podcast format: Audio & Video
Enjoy!
👉 itspmagazine.com/leading-edge-

#nasa #astronaut #mentor #thementorproject #space #tech #technology #society #podcast #astronomy #science #spaceshuttle #scifi #book #books #author #writing #reading #stem #diversity #inclusion #nasahistory

Last updated 3 years ago

dave · @trttr
98 followers · 313 posts · Server mas.to

I was just a kid, but I remember it well. The confusion, the slow motion horror, all framed so jarringly against that blue sky.

37 years later, I still know all their names.

#nasahistory #NASA #sts51l #challenger

Last updated 3 years ago

dave · @trttr
83 followers · 166 posts · Server mas.to

I was just a kid, but I remember it well. The confusion, the slow motion horror, all framed so jarringly against that blue sky.

37 years later, I still know all their names.

#nasahistory #NASA #sts51l #challenger

Last updated 3 years ago

chickweed · @earthchild
736 followers · 666 posts · Server mastodon.social

Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and USAF colonel. She was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.

In 2005 she commanded NASA's "return to flight" mission after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, to test safety improvements and resupply the International Space Station (ISS). She was the first astronaut to fly the orbiter through a complete 360-degree pitch maneuver.

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

#astronaut #nasahistory

Last updated 3 years ago

SpaceHistory, etc · @rlpaulprodn
233 followers · 573 posts · Server mstdn.social

#nasahistory

Last updated 3 years ago

SpaceHistory, etc · @rlpaulprodn
233 followers · 573 posts · Server mstdn.social

#nasahistory

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
18 followers · 52 posts · Server birds.town

"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. ...Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting." -Carl Sagan

#apollo #apollo8 #otd #nasa #nasahistory #space #spacehistory #spaceexploration #usnavy

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
18 followers · 51 posts · Server birds.town

The later SIV-B third stages were smashed into the moon for seismic data, but the ones used for Apollo 8-12 are still out there somewhere!

#apollo #space #nasa #nasahistory #spacehistory #spaceexploration #apollomas #apollo8 #inspirationalquote

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
18 followers · 50 posts · Server birds.town

Who's that streaking through the sky? It's not Santa Claus, it's screaming across the sky to bring all the world joy, December 27, 1968. This photograph was taken at 40,000 feet by a nearby aircraft as Apollo 8 reentered the Earth's atmosphere. To the moon and back - the greatest pioneering adventure in this history of humankind was a resounding success. Happy all, until next year!

#apollo8 #otd #apollomas #nasa #space #spacehistory #nasahistory #apollo #spaceexploration #spacerace

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
19 followers · 49 posts · Server birds.town

"From the crew of Apollo 8, we close with goodnight, good luck, a merry Christmas, and god bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."

youtu.be/ToHhQUhdyBY

#space #spacehistory #nasa #apollo8 #apollo #spaceexploration #apollomas #otd #nasahistory

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
19 followers · 46 posts · Server birds.town

Earthrise! Photograph taken 1968 by astronauts Bill Anders, as emerged from the far side of the moon. Looking back homewards from another world - a completely new perspective of our place in the universe

#otd #apollo8 #apollomas #nasa #nasahistory #space #spaceexploration #spacehistory #peace #peaceonearth #conservation

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
18 followers · 44 posts · Server birds.town

Photograph from the second day of the Apollo 8 flight. After 4.5 billion years, the children of the Good Earth were able to see all the world as one for the very first time.

#space #spacehistory #nasa #nasahistory #spaceexploration #apollomas

Last updated 3 years ago

Mahatma · @MahatmaKG
18 followers · 41 posts · Server birds.town

Aviator Charles Lindbergh was born before the Kitty Hawk flights. As a young man in 1927, he made a daring, first of it's kind flight across the Atlantic Ocean from NYC all the way to Paris. He lived to see the day that man would cross the vast and empty ocean of deep space. Truly incredible, the march of progress within one human lifetime.

prologue.blogs.archives.gov/20

#aviation #aviationhistory #aviationheritage #nasa #lbj #nasahistory #apollomas #apollo8 #space #spaceexploration #spacehistory

Last updated 3 years ago

Seth 🎙️ :wp_fedi: · @phillycodehound
6845 followers · 1870 posts · Server masto.ai

QT from @nasa

"As makes its closest lunar approach today, 53 years ago the Apollo 12 astronauts were in lunar orbit preparing to head back home! The Yankee Clipper command module performed a trans-Earth injection, leaving lunar orbit at 3:49 pm ET.

More go.nasa.gov/3EhV8Q5
"

#orion #otd #nasahistory

Last updated 3 years ago