Read more about Voyager at the JPL-NASA web page.
image source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/assets/images/news/planets-16.jpg
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40 years of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
Looking forward to seeing the documentary this coming week at PBS August 23, 2017 9/8c!
Read more about Voyager at the JPL-NASA web page.
image source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/assets/images/news/planets-16.jpg
Read more about Voyager at the JPL-NASA web page.
image source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/assets/images/news/planets-16.jpg
Space: Welcome home Endeavour
Isn't she a beautiful sight!
Image source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
I have to admit, I was nervous and had the NASA TV internet streaming video going.
Many years ago, two decades ago, I was driving to school listening to top-40 pop music when the DJ broke into the music with the first reports that something had gone terribly wrong with Challenger shortly after launch.
A few years back, it was an early Saturday morning when I listened with sadness on the radio that contact had been lost with Columbia on re-entry. As a high schooler, I had gotten up early in the morning to watch Columbia lift off in STS-1, the maiden voyage of the space shuttle program.
This morning, I was aware of the landing and the concerns about the dented tiles. The heat of re-entry is one of the dangerous parts of the mission. It was great to hear the NASA announcer report they were in touch with the shuttle as it punched through the fiery re-entry phase and began its moves to reduce speed for a Florida landing. There is nothing quite like seeing those images when the first long-range TV cameras picked it up and seeing it coast onto the runway.
Well done to the crew of Endeavour and all the NASA people at the various centers!
Welcome home!!
Image source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
I have to admit, I was nervous and had the NASA TV internet streaming video going.
Many years ago, two decades ago, I was driving to school listening to top-40 pop music when the DJ broke into the music with the first reports that something had gone terribly wrong with Challenger shortly after launch.
A few years back, it was an early Saturday morning when I listened with sadness on the radio that contact had been lost with Columbia on re-entry. As a high schooler, I had gotten up early in the morning to watch Columbia lift off in STS-1, the maiden voyage of the space shuttle program.
This morning, I was aware of the landing and the concerns about the dented tiles. The heat of re-entry is one of the dangerous parts of the mission. It was great to hear the NASA announcer report they were in touch with the shuttle as it punched through the fiery re-entry phase and began its moves to reduce speed for a Florida landing. There is nothing quite like seeing those images when the first long-range TV cameras picked it up and seeing it coast onto the runway.
Well done to the crew of Endeavour and all the NASA people at the various centers!
Welcome home!!
Space: "The classroom is now open ..."
With those words the NASA launch narrator reported that external tank separation had occurred and Endeavor was well on its way to achieving orbit.
Shuttle launches are never routine though in the public consciousness they have become so. However, yesterday's launch was special because it was a promise kept from 21 years ago.
Congratulations to Barbara Morgan, educator-astrounaut!
Now let's all work real hard to bring her and the rest of the crew home safe in two weeks.
Space: Teacher in Space Backup Barbara Morgan to Fly in Next Shuttle Flight
Barbara in 1986 with Christa McAuliffe, the Teacher in Space, who perished in the Challenger Explosion on January 28, 1986.
image source: http://www.spacetoday.org/Astronauts/BarbaraMorganTeacherAstronaut.html
She was 35 years old at the time of the photo. She stayed with the NASA program and now, 21 years later, Barbara is set to go on board STS-118 on August 7, 2007 as an educator-astronaut and mission specialist.
image source: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/morgan.html
image source: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-118/ndxpage1.html
The crew with the Space Shuttle Endeavour in the background on the launch pad.
Godspeed to the crew of STS-118 and to Barbara Morgan!
image source: http://www.spacetoday.org/Astronauts/BarbaraMorganTeacherAstronaut.html
She was 35 years old at the time of the photo. She stayed with the NASA program and now, 21 years later, Barbara is set to go on board STS-118 on August 7, 2007 as an educator-astronaut and mission specialist.
image source: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/morgan.html
image source: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-118/ndxpage1.html
The crew with the Space Shuttle Endeavour in the background on the launch pad.
Godspeed to the crew of STS-118 and to Barbara Morgan!
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