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TV Camera on the Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV-3) in motion.

Yuri Krasilnikov has combined them into a gif.

Date: December 11-13, 1972

NASA ID: AS17-141-21492, 93, 94, and 95

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"The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its separation from the space shuttle Endeavour following a week and a half of repairs while in the space vehicle's cargo bay."

NASA ID: December 9, 1993

NASA ID: S94-00255

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"An overall view of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Mission Control Center, during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Gemini-7 spaceflight."

Date: December 7, 1965

NASA ID: S65-60037, S65-60039

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Concept image of potential Space Shuttle design ascending through the sky toward space; Artist: Roy Gjertson; General Dynamics, Convair, NASA

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Pilot Rick Hauck and Commander Bob Crippen review procedures on the Space Shuttle Challenger flight deck, STS-7

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STS-2 Columbia on the 747 SCA taxiing after landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas.

Photographed by Scott R. Wilson.

Date: November 25, 1981

Posted by Facebook by Scott Wilson: link

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2024 November 20

Earthset from Orion Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1

Explanation: Eight billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon’s bright edge as viewed by an external camera on the outbound Orion spacecraft. Orion was headed for a powered flyby that took it to within 130 kilometers of the lunar surface. Velocity gained in the flyby maneuver was used to reach a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. That orbit is considered distant because it’s another 92,000 kilometers beyond the Moon, and retrograde because the spacecraft orbited in the opposite direction of the Moon’s orbit around planet Earth. Orion entered its distant retrograde orbit on November 25. Swinging around the Moon, Orion reached a maximum distance (just over 400,000 kilometers) from Earth on November 28, exceeding a record set by Apollo 13 for most distant spacecraft designed for human space exploration. The Artemis II mission, carrying 4 astronauts around the moon and back again, is scheduled to launch no earlier than September 2025.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241120.html

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Just under two hours until the launch of Shenzhou 19, which will send 3 taikonauts to the Tiangong space station.

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I started this blog right before the semester began, thinking I could manage to update this regularly, do all of the work required of me by my major, and work a full-time job. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that there was way too much on my plate, so I've sort of taken a hiatus from posting here.

Hopefully in the future I'll have more time to curate and post cool space history stuff here.

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Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, participates in the final Skylab 3 extravehicular activity (EVA), during which a variety of tasks were performed. Here, Bean is near the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) during final film change out for the giant telescope facility. Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, who took the picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. The reflected Earth disk in Bean's visor is so clear that the Red Sea and Nile River area can delineated. September 22, 1973

NASA

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"This view of the International Space Station, backdropped against a blue and white Earth, was taken shortly after the Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital outpost at 7:50 a.m. CDT. The unlinking completed six days, two hours and two minutes of joint operations with the station crew. Atlantis left the station with a new, second pair of 240-foot solar wings, attached to a new 17.5-ton section of truss with batteries, electronics and a giant rotating joint. The new solar arrays eventually will double the station's onboard power when their electrical systems are brought online during the next shuttle flight, planned for launch in December."

Date: September 17, 2006

NASA ID: S115-E-06767

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Starliner undocking from the ISS.

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The Crawler Transporter carring Apollo 12 Saturn V (CSM-108/LM-6/SA-507) space vehicle from the VAB's High Bay 3 at the start of the 3.5 mile rollout to Launch Complex 39A. The transporter carried the 12.8 million pound load along the crawlerway at speeds under one mile per hour.

Date: September 8, 1969

NASA ID: 69PC-0529

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Mir in the early stages of construction, as seen from a departing spacecraft, likely Soyuz TM-8. February, 1990.

The Kvant 2 module, at left, was the most recent addition at the time, having been berthed to the space station in November, 1989.

SpaceFacts

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Launch of Voyager 1 aboard a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket. September 5, 1977.

Voyager 1 would become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space on August 25, 2012, after having made fly-bys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

First close-up of Jupiter from Voyager 1

Voyager 1 is still operational and returning scientific data to ground crews. It is expected to continue its extended mission until 2025, with a maximum lifespan of until 2030.

NASA JPL

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NASA’s T-38 jets fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

NASA/Josh Valcarcel

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Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) under construction at Rockwell International's Palmdale Facility.

Date: September 4, 1981

Mike Acs's Collection: link