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#astronauts

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Soh Kam Yung

RIP.

"Astronaut Jim Lovell, who guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97.

Nasa said he "turned a potential tragedy into a success" after an attempt to land on the Moon was aborted due to an explosion onboard the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth."

bbc.com/news/articles/cl7y8zq5

James Lovell is photographed wearing his astronaut suit albeit without his helmet.
www.bbc.comJim Lovell: Astronaut who guided Apollo 13 safely back to Earth dies aged 97The commander of Apollo 13 famously rescued his men from near certain death in space.
#Astronauts#Apollo8#Apollo13
Assoc for Scottish Literature

Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

#OTD, 20 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon

carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/c

#Scottish#literature#MoonLanding
Flipboard Science Desk

Private spaceflight ends with a Pacific splashdown for astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The visiting astronauts conducted dozens of experiments in orbit while celebrating their heritage."

flip.it/UN0-_Y

AP News · Private spaceflight ends with a Pacific splashdown for astronauts from India, Poland and HungaryThe first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary are back on Earth. They closed out their private spaceflight Tuesday with a splashdown in the Pacific off the California coast. Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the International Space Station a day earlier. The crew of four launched nearly three weeks ago on a flight chartered by the Houston company Axiom Space. Axiom's Peggy Whitson served as commander. It was Axiom's fourth mission to the space station, part of NASA's effort to open up space to more businesses and people.
#Space#Astronauts#SpaceX
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J. Steven York RESISTS

Some time back I posted a link to this article about a Northrup Grumman study of a lunar train. I used a lot of the same reasoning about dust when I came up with a lunar train concept in 1979, and I just found this concept model I built of a freight boxcar. I did a lot of drawings and made notes, but the model is (amazingly) all that survives.

#space#nasa#DARPA
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