STS-31, the #SpaceShuttle mission that deployed the #Hubble Space Telescope, launched #OTD in 1990: April 24.
However, the astronauts didn't deploy the observatory until April 25.
My view -- which is not held by the good folks at STScI -- is that Hubble's birthday is thus the 25th; I liken it to April 24th is when Hubble's parents drove to the hospital / went into labor, but the 25th is when it was born. #Astrodon#HistoryOfAstronomy#NASA
Catching up on Twin Peaks (90s) which wasn't on my radar until now. For some reason. And I'm fascinated by Michael J. Anderson, the man from another place, in the Red Room.
Did you know he worked as a computer technician, as part of the ground support system for NASA's Space Shuttle? Check it out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Anderson
Glad I stepped out of my Trump/Ukraine/theworldisgoingdownthedrain routine for this genuine "Wow" moment!
I was at college, walking up the stairs to my dormroom when I heard about it. I spent the rest of the day glued to my little TV in our room.
As I watched the video that was being replayed over and over, one moment struck me: The twin trails of smoke from the booster rockets looked like the wide-spread arms of a giant in the sky.
It was immediately obvious that there would be no survivors. I cried, and prayed that they never had a chance to know what happened, and feeling awful for all the school kids watching the teacher take off, on TVs at schools around the world.
The cause was later determined to be a simple, small, faulty O-ring. It would be months later before any human remains were recovered, found at the bottom of the ocean.
Concept art from the early space shuttle design process. If you look closely at the roots of the wings you can see that they're the "drawbridge" style proposed by McDonnell Douglas, which puts this right around 1970.
A question in my mind is the significance of the Red Cross emblems so prominently displayed. The two astronauts on EVA do seem to be going to a satellite notably lacking in crew that could be in distress.
#OTD on Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named the Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.
The ceremony was attended by 600 invited guests and 185 media representatives.
As Enterprise emerged from the hangar, the Air Force Band of the Golden West from March Air Force Base in Riverside County, CA, played Alexander Courage’s Star Trek musical score.
Newest addition to the collection is #SpaceShuttle by #Activision for the #Commodore#C64.
Been on the hunt for this for a long time.
The box has some flight instructions and the manual is just off the charts cool with tons of information.😍 #RetroGaming#RetroComputing
This weekend we celebrated our 24th Birthday! Since our launch on the Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999 (Eileen Collins commanding) we have been exploring the cosmos and bringing the high energy Universe into focus. Here's to 24 more years!
Columbia was heavier than the rest of the space shuttles. It was the first spacegoing one, and by the time the rest were built, they had found lighter materials to build them from. It weighed as much, we are told, as 13 African Elephants.
10 things you might not know about space shuttles: