#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 Shuttle after the Columbia disaster.
Watch the lift-off: https://youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y
#SpaceHistory
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Vor den Forschungen der Astronomin Cecilia Payne glaubte man, Sterne bestünden aus Eisen, Silizium, Magnesium, Nickel und Aluminium 
#Wissenschaftsgeschichte #Sterne #Astrophysik #Wissenschaftlerin #science #SpaceHistory #WomenInSTEM #ScienceLegend
https://web.de/magazine/wissen/geschichte/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-entdeckung-kleinredete-40838812
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WEB.DE NewsCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Wie ein Mann ihre Entdeckung kleinredeteCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin war die erste Frau, die an der Harvard Universität einen Doktortitel (Ph.D.) erhielt. In ihrer Dissertation entdeckte sie etwas Unglaubliches: Sterne bestehen größtenteils aus Wasserstoff und Helium. Doch ein Mann schmückte sich mit ihrer Entdeckung.
#OnThisDay, 16 June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, orbiting Earth 48 times in Vostok 6.
She is currently a member of the Russian State Duma (lower house), and supporter of Putin.
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@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
cearkadia · Jonathan McDowell on Retiring From Harvard and Leaving the U.S. - cearkadiaJonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report, and far more people have seen him
#OnThisDay, April 12, 1961, at 6:07 AM UTC, the Vostok 1 spacecraft launched with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, the first human to travel into space (depicted in Gagarin: First in Space, 2013)
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?
A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven-day oxygen supply.
With a pounding heart and rapid breath, Laika rode a rocket into Earth orbit, 2,000 miles above Moscow streets she knew. Overheated, cramped, frightened, and probably hungry, the space dog gave her life for her country, involuntarily fulfilling a canine suicide mission
@SmithsonianMag #dogs #Space #SpaceHistory #history
#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 Shuttle after the Columbia disaster.
Watch the lift-off: https://youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y
On #Juneteenth2024 , why weren’t there any Black women hired by #NASA until 1965? (Yes, what the movie told you is incorrect). A little #spacehistory and #blackhistory https://youtu.be/kQbrg_XmB_c?si=wo9ffrONIgeHrRmn
On this day in 1965, Ed White became the first American to perform a spacewalk during the Gemini IV mission.
Check-out some of our favorite facts about the feat: http://s.si.edu/2EJivnF
National Air and Space Museum
@airandspace #Space #Spacehistory #astronaut #EdWhite
In honor of yesterday's #eclipse, this week's theme will be some real “luna-cy.”
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
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
GeekWire · Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crewEd Dwight lost his chance to become NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s — but now Blue Origin is putting him on a suborbital space crew.
NASA Remembers Legendary Astronaut Thomas Stafford
The middle aged women employees of North American Rockwell fill Apollo 11's command module heat shield with ablative material.
"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."
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."
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However, in updating the data, it has been interesting to see the increase of Chinese taikonauts and space tourists over the past 3 years. https://cosmos-book.github.io/human-spaceflight/timeline #astronauts #SpaceHistory
On This Day In Space: Oct. 4, 1957: Sputnik 1 becomes 1st human-made satellite
https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html
#News #SpaceNews #SpaceHistory #Sputnik 
Space · On this day in space! July 3, 1998: Japan launches Nozomi Mars Mission
From the Krafft Ehricke papers held by the San Diego Air and Space Museum via the Smithsonian Virtual Archives, we have this image of what appears to be a Moon mission using a Lunar Gemini Lander.
While there are no details about the picture included in the archive, Ehricke never worked for McDonnell Douglas (the maker of the Gemini), so he likely picked this up from someone else to file away for future reference.
#OnThisDay, 25 July 1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk (and weld) in space.