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There we have it! The first astronauts to travel around the moon have returned.

#lunarflyby #SpaceHistory #FirstLunarVoyage

Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html

#HackerNews #MagneticMemories #ApolloAGC #SpaceHistory #TechNostalgia #RetroComputing

Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html

#HackerNews #MagneticMemories #ApolloAGC #SpaceHistory #TechNostalgia #RetroComputing

Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html

#HackerNews #MagneticMemories #ApolloAGC #SpaceHistory #TechNostalgia #RetroComputing

Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html

#HackerNews #MagneticMemories #ApolloAGC #SpaceHistory #TechNostalgia #RetroComputing

King Tutankhamun’s dagger wasn’t made on Earth it was forged from a meteorite… when iron was rarer than gold.
#AncientEgypt #Tutankhamun #HistoryMystery #AncientTech #HiddenHistory #SpaceHistory #Archaeology
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/why-did-tutankhamun-have-dagger-made-meteorite-006408

Artemis II explained: How NASA is returning humans to the Moon after 50 years https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/science/artemis-ii-return-to-moon-qapgq8t2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NASA #ArtemisII #MoonMission #SpaceHistory #HumanSpaceflight

NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away' -- NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center will close permanently on Jan 2 under the Trump administration's reorganisation plans.

"According to a statement posted on the website of the Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association, specialised equipment and electronics designed to test spacecraft have already been removed and thrown out."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584

#NASA #space #goddardspaceflightcenter #science #archive #history #spacehistory #techhistory #trump #reorg #waste #federalgovernment #fedgov #trumpadministration

Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969

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

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

Nuclear Orbits takes you on a powerful journey from Soviet-era satellites to modern Russian space ambitions. Explore how nuclear technology shaped space exploration, military strategy, and global power beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
A must-read for space lovers, history buffs, and science enthusiasts!
#NewRelease #NuclearOrbits #SpaceHistory #RocketScience
#SpaceExploration #NuclearTechnology #ColdWarHistory
#RussianSpace #SovietSatellites #ScienceBooks
#Aerospace #SpacePower #BookLaunch #MustRead

Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

https://www.spacecamera.co/articles/2020/3/3/gene-cernans-missing-lunar-surface-camera

#HackerNews #FindingGeneCernan #MissingMoonCamera #LunarExploration #SpaceHistory #ApolloMission

Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station. https://issinrealtime.org

#ISS25 #InternationalSpaceStation #ISS #SpaceStation #NASA #SpaceHistory #25YearsInOrbit #SpaceExploration #LowEarthOrbit #Astronauts #Archive #HistoryReplayed

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

🛰️ This Day in History – Sept 5, 1977
On this day, NASA launched Voyager 1.
It still sails, bearing our message to the stars.
Here’s a small poem I wrote for it:

Voyage on, Voyager
Voyage on, Voyager,
so far from home.
Your path I do not begrudge—
you’ve ventured far,
too far for me to follow.
For I would miss my hollow.

#OnThisDay #Voyager1 #Poetry #NASA #SpaceHistory #Eshu #LLMPoetry #Starbound #Voyager

Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/many-big-pre-sputnik-earth-orbit

#HackerNews #PreSputnik #EarthOrbit #Glints #SpaceHistory #Astronomy #ScienceNews

Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/many-big-pre-sputnik-earth-orbit

#HackerNews #PreSputnik #EarthOrbit #Glints #SpaceHistory #Astronomy #ScienceNews

Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/many-big-pre-sputnik-earth-orbit

#HackerNews #PreSputnik #EarthOrbit #Glints #SpaceHistory #Astronomy #ScienceNews

Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/many-big-pre-sputnik-earth-orbit

#HackerNews #PreSputnik #EarthOrbit #Glints #SpaceHistory #Astronomy #ScienceNews

Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/many-big-pre-sputnik-earth-orbit

#HackerNews #PreSputnik #EarthOrbit #Glints #SpaceHistory #Astronomy #ScienceNews

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

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

Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html

#HackerNews #Apollo8Ball #FDAI #FlightDirector #AttitudeIndicator #SpaceHistory

Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/failed-soviet-venus-lander-kosmos-482-crashes-to-earth-after-53-years-in-orbit

#HackerNews #FailedSovietLander #Kosmos482 #VenusMission #SpaceHistory #SpaceExploration #SpaceNews

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the Moon! Astronauts John Young & Charles Duke used the Lunar Rover to explore the Descartes Highlands and brought back over 200 pounds of lunar rock. A key milestone in space exploration!

#Apollo16 #LunarRover #NASA #SpaceHistory #MoonMission #SpaceExploration #LunarSamples #NASAHistory

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the Moon! Astronauts John Young & Charles Duke used the Lunar Rover to explore the Descartes Highlands and brought back over 200 pounds of lunar rock. A key milestone in space exploration!

#Apollo16 #LunarRover #NASA #SpaceHistory #MoonMission #SpaceExploration #LunarSamples #NASAHistory

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the Moon! Astronauts John Young & Charles Duke used the Lunar Rover to explore the Descartes Highlands and brought back over 200 pounds of lunar rock. A key milestone in space exploration!

#Apollo16 #LunarRover #NASA #SpaceHistory #MoonMission #SpaceExploration #LunarSamples #NASAHistory

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the Moon! Astronauts John Young & Charles Duke used the Lunar Rover to explore the Descartes Highlands and brought back over 200 pounds of lunar rock. A key milestone in space exploration!

#Apollo16 #LunarRover #NASA #SpaceHistory #MoonMission #SpaceExploration #LunarSamples #NASAHistory

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the Moon! Astronauts John Young & Charles Duke used the Lunar Rover to explore the Descartes Highlands and brought back over 200 pounds of lunar rock. A key milestone in space exploration!

#Apollo16 #LunarRover #NASA #SpaceHistory #MoonMission #SpaceExploration #LunarSamples #NASAHistory

@planet4589 : "When I was a kid 🧒, it was #LEO. Now, the frontier is out near the #asteroid belt, and the #Moon and #Mars are becoming part of where humanity just hangs out, maybe not yet as people, but with #robots. Meanwhile, #LEO is so normalized that it doesn’t take a #SpaceAgency to deal with it. You just call #SpaceX. Thousand years from now, perhaps more people live off Earth 🌌 than on it" https://www.cearkadia.edu.pl/jonathan-mcdowell-on-retiring-from-harvard-and-leaving-the-u-s

#SpaceExploration #SpaceHistory

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

Museum adds a big Blue rocket engine to its collection
Seattle’s Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that’s been donated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture.

The BE-3U rocket engine, which was used for on-the-ground development work that included hot-
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/03/18/museum-adds-a-big-blue-rocket-engine-to-its-collection/
#GeekWire #BlueOrigin #MuseumOfFlight #Museums #Space #SpaceHistory

This video has some nice views of the #Buran shuttles in addition to some history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwDlwLPU6s
#spaceHistory #history #SovietUnion #SovietEra

Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew - Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight missed out on space in the 1960s. (Courtesy of Ed Dwigh... - https://www.geekwire.com/2024/blue-origin-black-astronaut-ed-dwight/ #dreamvariationventures #spacehistory #blueorigin #newshepard #eddwight #space

Black flier gets a second chance to make space history
If the fates decided differently, Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight could have become NASA’s first Black astronaut in the 1960s — but he lost out, amid racial controversy. Now he’s in line to travel to the final frontier with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture.

https://cosmiclog.com/2024/04/04/black-flier-gets-a-second-chance-to-make-space-history/
#GeekWire #BlueOrigin #NewShepard #SpaceHistory #SpaceTourism #SuborbitalSpaceflight

"For the first time in 51 years we follow the countdown, launch and initial orbits of the Skylab Space Station. Includes some descriptions of the anomalies seen during the launch phase, which resulted in the loss of a solar wing and micrometeorite shield."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_h1dtBU5Q

#Skylab #NASA #SpaceHistory #Space #SaturnV 🚀

Apollo 4 Launch - Flight Director Loop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYjHhBLG-uU

"Until 2024 this tape has been in the US National Archive and was only digitised a few days ago (it is February 17th 2024 as I write this). Nearly 60 years has passed since it was recorded."

#NASA #SaturnV #Apollo #Apollo4 #Space #SpaceHistory

'Diamonds and DORIANS: The Soviet Union’s Almaz and the United States’ Manned Orbiting Laboratory military space stations (part 1)
by Bart Hendrickx and Dwayne A. Day'

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4708/1

#Almaz #Salyut #MOL #MannedOrbitalLaboratory #USSR #USA #SpaceHistory #Space #military #Surveillance #SpaceStation

#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle.

She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Space Shuttle after the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Watch the lift-off: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqIzfH7r2Y&feature=youtu.be

#WomenInHistory #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory

#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle.

She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Space Shuttle after the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Watch the lift-off: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqIzfH7r2Y&feature=youtu.be

#WomenInHistory #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory

#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle.

She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Space Shuttle after the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Watch the lift-off: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqIzfH7r2Y&feature=youtu.be

#WomenInHistory #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory

#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle.

She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Space Shuttle after the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Watch the lift-off: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqIzfH7r2Y&feature=youtu.be

#WomenInHistory #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory

#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle.

She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Space Shuttle after the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Watch the lift-off: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqIzfH7r2Y&feature=youtu.be

#WomenInHistory #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory

Mentioned a few times previously, but as it's June 27th and exactly three years since the release "launch" date, here it is again for your soundtracking and hauntological listening pleasure. #Space #BLACKARROW #Prospero #Histodons #Soundtrack #UKSpace #SpaceHistory #IsleofWight #Satellites #Rockets #60s #70s #Electronic #Bandcamp https://robertafidora.bandcamp.com/album/black-arrow-2

#CNN 📆 December 2017 The #Buran https://youtu.be/ASQl2b0-yDQ also had #emergency eject 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/index.html

#SpaceShuttle #SpaceHistory

@drewtoynbee Hi! In the US there is the Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, NM (ZIP is 88310). There are awesome volunteers who were always really well informed; not only about the history of space but also about current ongoings and future plans. At the time, there was planning going on about a spaceport in Las Cruces, NM. I'll hashtag some ideas, maybe you can get a good contact out of it :-)
#alamogordo #spacehistory #hollomanairforcebase #whitesandsmissilerange #LasCrucesNM