#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

Two new pages on the #SpaceHistory #SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceFlight archive. The first is OMI V1202 - the Main Propulsion helium signature test. Seal the aft, pressurize everything with helium, and measure what leaks. The aft compartment IS the instrument.

See:
gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle_v1202.html

NASA has been quietly taking Shuttle documentation offline. The Columbia STS-107 FMEA/CIL files aren't even on the Wayback Machine.

Same pattern as Apollo: the F-1 blueprints survive, the people who knew how to build it don't.

11 years at KSC on the Main Propulsion System, and I kept copies. 2,004 documents, images and launch voice tapes on the Internet Archive, and at Zenodo with a DOI and per-file checksums:
gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle.html

#SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #DigitalPreservation #Space

The story clears up this myth.

#SpaceHistory #FisherPressurisedPens #MythVsFact

The 1965 space pen myth: NASA didn't spend millions to build a pen and the Soviets didn't outsmart anyone with a pencil. Inventor Paul C. Fisher quietly developed the pressurised pen on his own dime and only sold it to NASA.
https://spacedaily.com/m-1965-space-pen-myth-debunked-nasa-didnt-spend-millions-soviets-pencil/

Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969

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

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

Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles ☄️📚! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." 🤪✨ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? 🙄🌌
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky/ #galaxyart #ancientdoodles #celestialwonders #spacehistory #humorinscience #cosmiccuriosities #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles ☄️📚! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." 🤪✨ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? 🙄🌌
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky/ #galaxyart #ancientdoodles #celestialwonders #spacehistory #humorinscience #cosmiccuriosities #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles ☄️📚! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." 🤪✨ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? 🙄🌌
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky/ #galaxyart #ancientdoodles #celestialwonders #spacehistory #humorinscience #cosmiccuriosities #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles ☄️📚! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." 🤪✨ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? 🙄🌌
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky/ #galaxyart #ancientdoodles #celestialwonders #spacehistory #humorinscience #cosmiccuriosities #HackerNews #ngated

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