To Mars via Moscow! New Video Details Simulated Space Travel
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NASA’s 13-day, STS-131 mission by the shuttle Discovery will mark a couple of spaceflight milestones, the first times four women and two Japanese have been in space at the same time. Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space...Space Talk
Did you know the @Space_Station is restocked with food every 60 to 90 days? During these resupply missions, @NASA can send a wide variety of food items including fresh foods, pizza kits, and even real ice cream!
Stop by the NASA exhibit at the Great American State Fair all week
Did you know the @Space_Station is restocked with food every 60 to 90 days? During these resupply missions, @NASA can send a wide variety of food items including fresh foods, pizza kits, and even real ice cream!
Stop by the NASA exhibit at the Great American State Fair all week
HiRISE 3D: A Possible Eroded Dyke System in Atlantis Chaos
These dykes would be intruding into sediments of probable lacustrine origin, deposited in this basin of the southern cratered highlands.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092224_1450_ESP_092593_1450_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Joe Engle—age 32—flew the X-15 OTD in 1965 to an altitude of more than 50 miles, qualifying for astronaut wings under the USAF definition.
He was selected to become a NASA astronaut the following year and was the only person to have flown both the X-15 and the Space Shuttle.
@NASAhistory Sorry I don't know this, did I fly the shuttle to space, or did he only fly the pictured Enterprise?
@TNCannuck In addition to flying a few of the Approach and Landing Tests aboard Enterprise, Engle commanded the second shuttle mission (STS-2) aboard Columbia as well as STS-51I aboard Discovery.