#spacehistory — Public Fediverse posts

From a relative of mine, a book on sci-fi, engineering, and tech bros and the public missing the big picture.

https://www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/jenn-rossmanns-worldbuilding-the-engineering-imagination

#Worldbuilding #Engineering #EngineeringDesign #STEM #STEAM #LiberalArts #SpaceExploration #ArtemisII #Apollo13 #SpaceHistory #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #JulesVerne #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInEngineering #EthicsInTech #TechEthics #BookAstodon #NonFiction #PublicScholarship

Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/133360601

#HackerNews #ApolloMissions #MovingImages #SpaceHistory #1960sNASA #Archives

Turning NASA Wake-up Calls into data

by @beet_keeper

For a while back then I was into space flight again. Scientists, science communicators, and engineers were all excited for a new era of rocket launches and the potential unification of the human race as we look towards the future.

During that time I discovered Colin Fries’ work in the NASA History Division to document all NASA “Wake-up calls”. A wake-up call is simply a piece of music used to wake astronauts on missions, a different piece of music, daily, for the duration of the flight.

Take, for example, the last Space Shuttle mission (Space Transportation System) STS-135; it was in flight for 13 days, and the wake-up call on day one was Coldplay’s Viva la Vida, while on day 13 it was Kate Smith singing God Bless America.

As a huge music buff who has the radio or music television on 18 hours a day, I really wanted to delve into this further. While Colin’s work is great, it’s just a PDF file (@wtfpdf). A PDF is not an ideal file format for querying data and gleaning new insights. So, while I wanted to explore it, I first decided to turn it into a true dataset. The result was a set of resources, a website, a JSON, a CSV, and an SQLite database which are each more functional and more maintainable over time.

Lets take a look at the results and https://nasawakeupcalls.github.io below!

#ApacheTika #Code #Coding #DataWrangling #Datasette #DatasetteLite #DH #DigitalHumanities #glam #harkive #NASA #NASAWakeUpCall #NASAWakeUpCalls #OpenData #PersonalProjects #Science #Space #SpaceHistory #Twitter #WakeUpCall

Hey Saturn V fans, Scott Manley's latest video has some Apollo-era porn for us all.

How Did The Massive Launch Tower For The Saturn V Work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFY7Q47fZaE

#SaturnV #Apollo #Space #NASA #history #SpaceHistory

Infiltration of the #Baikonur #Cosmodrome and its abandoned parts with a #rocket and two #SpaceShuttles. Shot in 📆 2018 https://www.jonk-photography.com/en/le-monde-perdu/baikonour

Two #Buran are rotting away in an abandoned hangar in another part of the sprawling Baikonur complex. Over the years, local scavengers have snuck into the hangar to harvest valuable metals and electronics. The site has also been targeted by international #adventurers seeking a glimpse at Soviet #SpaceHistory. Among them is #French photographer #Jonk https://www.wired.com/story/jonk-buran-photo-gallery

Picture : #SpaceShuttle Buran at the Technik #Museum #Speyer 🇩🇪 https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Technik+Museum+Speyer&point=Technik+Museum+Speyer&layer=Esri+Satellite :ccby: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Buran_spacecraft_(3245283588).jpg