#space-shuttle — Public Fediverse posts
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👨🚀🚀 In 1984 #NASA #astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person in #history to fly untethered in #space using a nitrogen-powered jet pack.
He navigated over 90 meters (300 ft) from the #SpaceShuttle Challenger to demonstrate how #humans can move independently in a vacuum. The flight provided data on orbital maneuvering that helped engineers develop systems for satellite retrieval and repairs.
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Interview with Claude Nicollier: Switzerland’s Pioneer in Space
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZwhYyGt4lXM?is=L3Qfpvf_BtnEpf4i
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Los Angeles Opens New Air and Space Center Featuring the Space Shuttle Endeavour as Its Core Exhibit
📰 Original title: A New Space Shuttle Museum Puts Endeavour Front and Center in Los Angeles
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/los-angeles-opens-new-air-and-space-center-featuring-the-space-shuttle-endeavour-as-its-core-exhibit/?redirpost=b717d03b-28fa-4f44-a1ec-fa61907bd185
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On this day 45 years ago: touchdown of the first Space Shuttle Mission
April 14, 1981, Columbia (STS-1) lands on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days.
#SpaceShuttle #STS1 #Columbia #space #science #history #HistoryOfScience #NASA #OTD #astrodon
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45 anni fa il primo lancio (che ricordo di aver visto in #TV). #SpaceShuttle, storia dell'iconica navetta spaziale della #NASA https://www.geopop.it/lo-space-shuttle-storia-delliconica-navetta-spaziale-della-nasa/
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Heute (12.04.2026) vor...
...45 Jahren, Start von STS-1 (Space Shuttle Columbia)
...45 Jahren, Start von #Spaceshuttle Columbia
...65 Jahren, Start von Wostok 1 (1. bemannter Flug)
...175 Jahren, wurde Edward Walter Maunder geboren -
Last night after watching the Artemis II crew splashdown, I explained to our son that we used to be able to land our shuttle like an airplane. The whole "I Dream of Jeannie" splashdown process feels so retro for this Gen X-er. 🚀
"Welcome Back!" Discovery Lands Safely at Kennedy
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The #SpaceShuttle used hyoergolics for the RCS and OMS. They had a cleaning procedure that had to take place after touchdown and before the hatch was opened.
I'm guessing the sea takes care of that.
I know the Russians have non-hypergolic RCS, (somehow) using gaseous kerosene, but I dont know about anything else.
Wikipedia says the service module uses hyoergolic fuel, but doesn't talk about the capsule's RCS fuel.
This article implies the capsule uses hypergolics, but it's not very clear: https://trendsmask.com/how-much-fuel-is-in-the-orion-capsule-532483.html
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Amongst all the cool things happening with #Artemis2, they have with them the moon #flag which was to have flown on the surface in 1973 during the canceled Apollo 18 flight. This same flag has also flown on STS1 and 135 (first and last #SpaceShuttle flights) as well as the first Crew Dragon flight. That flag has seen some things!
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#art #mastoart #illustration #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #space #spaceshuttle #moon #artemis
Für die Mondmission „Artemis“ halten sich gerade Menschen im Weltraum auf. Deshalb zum Thema Raumfahrt meine Zeichnung „Emigration to Another Planet“. -
Uploaded BUNCH of #NASA #SpaceShuttle #Shuttle clipart from the 1990's. Converted from Superpaint, MacDraw, Etc.. Credit to @rocketksc.bsky.social (William Harwood) that created a bunch of these, don't remember how I got the others:
https://gandalfddi.z19.web.core.windows.net/shuttle.htmlGoogle Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y3SspQUtNFS9DozRDbScFYT91I062Ikr -
»Allerdings waren große Teile des Spaceshuttles nicht wiederverwendbar. Die Wartung war aufwendig und der größte Teil der Masse, die das #Spaceshuttle in den Orbit brachte, war keine Nutzlast, sondern die Masse des Shuttles selbst. Insofern hatte es die gleichen Probleme wie das #Starship heute.«
Jetzt recherchiert mal selber, wie viele Flüge mit dem Ding für 1 Mondlandung nötig und nach wie wenigen die Raketenmotoren verschlissen wären.
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Na de geslaagde lancering van #Artemis is het goed dit verontrustende verhaal te lezen over de problemen met het hitteschild, dat nodig is voor een behouden terugkeer. (En bedenk dat een heelhuidse landing niet betekent dat het veilig was.) #SpaceShuttle https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
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Every little bit counts
https://piefed.social/c/science_memes/p/1881120/every-little-bit-counts
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Every little bit counts
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1881119/every-little-bit-counts
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📆 1983 Mission summary STS-9, Commander John Young* : "Had we then activated the Backup Flight Software, loss of vehicle and crew 💥 would have resulted" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-9#Mission_summary
* the only astronaut to walk on the Moon and fly on the #SpaceShuttle
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This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station
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Heute (24.02.2026) vor...
...15 Jahren, Letzter Start des #Spaceshuttle Discovery -
🚀✨ Ah, the 90s! When connecting to the internet felt like launching a space shuttle 🚀✨. This "nostalgia hit" has all the charm of waiting for paint to dry while a modem screeches your ears off. 🤦♂️💾 If you miss the sound of dial-up, just stick a fork in your ear and save the coffee money. ☕💸
https://dialup95.com/ #90sNostalgia #InternetMemories #DialUpModem #TechThrowback #SpaceShuttle #HackerNews #ngated -
The #Buran also had emergency ejection seats 💺 for all crew members (absent on the #US shuttles) and was free from the specific design flaws that contributed to the destruction 💥 of two shuttles in flight, the #Challenger in 1986 and the #Columbia in 2003 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/
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There was no way that one could have confidence that conditions the next time might not produce #erosion three times more severe than the time before. Officials fooled themselves into thinking they had such understanding and confidence, in spite of the peculiar variations from case to case. A mathematical model was made to calculate erosion. This was a model based not on physical understanding but on empirical curve fitting https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman