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FORMER ASTRONAUT HAS DIED AT AGE 93

An Oklahoma legend celebrates his 90th birthday | Weatherford Daily News

Astronaut Thomas Stafford, Apollo 10 commander, dies at 93 | WYTV

WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who
commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon
landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday
in a hospital near his Space Coast Florida home.

Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, took part in
four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini
flights, including the first rendezvous of two U.S. capsules in
orbit.

Stafford was one of 24 NASA astronauts who flew to the moon,

but he did not land on it. Only seven of them are still alive.

ASTRONAUT THOMAS P. STAFFORD DURING GEMINI 9 MISSION - 8X10 NASA PHOTO (AA-109) | eBay
ASTRONAUT THOMAS P. STAFFORD DURING GEMINI 9 MISSION.





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CLASSIC LIFE COVER FROM THIS DAY IN 1962

March 2, 1962 LIFE Magazine with John Glenn Space Travel on the Cover has 94 pages of ads and articles, Birthday Gift Idea No.2 image 1

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UNTHERED SPACEWALK ON THIS DAY IN 1984

Astronaut Bruce McCandless becomes to the first human to fly untethered in space, February 7 ...

While in orbit 170 miles above Earth, Navy Captain Bruce
McCandless II became the
first human being to perform
an untethered spacewalk
, when he exits the U.S. space
shuttle Challenger and maneuvers freely, using a bulky
white jet pack of his own design.

McCandless orbited Earth in tangent with the shuttle at
speeds greater than 17,500 miles per hour—the speed
at which satellites normally orbit Earth—and flew up to
320 feet away from the Challenger. After an hour and a
half of testing and flying the jet-powered backpack and
admiring Earth, McCandless safely reentered the shuttle.


Picture of Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless II
(June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017)

Incredible Photo of the First Untethered Spacewalk - TechEBlog

Space Shuttle Challenger wallpapers, Vehicles, HQ Space Shuttle Challenger pictures | 4K ...

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THE COLUMBIA DISASTER ON THIS DAY IN 2003

#OnThisDay in 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas. - AIRLIVE
Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the
sky over Tyler, Texas.

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia brook up while
entering the atmosphere over
Texas, killing all seven crew
members on board.

The Columbia‘s 28th space mission, designated STS-107, was
originally scheduled to launch on January 11, 2001, but was
delayed numerous times for a variety of reasons over nearly
two years. Columbia finally launched on January 16, 2003, with
a crew of seven. Eighty seconds into the launch, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and hit the
edge of the shuttle’s left wing.

Crew
The Space Shuttle Columbia crew, left to right. Front row:
Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool. Back row: David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson and Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. (
AP file)

Space Shuttle Columbia anniversary: How the NASA tragedy began the private space age of SpaceX ...
The crew of the space shuttle Columbia on the day of launch.

Watch The Final Moments Of The Columbia Disaster That Killed Kalpana Chawla And 6 Other Astronauts

Accident investigators reconstructed space shuttle Columbia from recovered debris.
Accident investigators reconstructed space shuttle Columbia from recovered debris.

US SPACE PROGRAM / SPACE SHUTTLE | WIKIARCHIVES.SPACE

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

Today-In-Historytitle

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The Challenger disaster that changed NASA forever - The Hindu

How Groupthink Led to 7 Lives Lost in the Challenger Explosion - History in the Headlines
(AP)

At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle
Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and
Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first
ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a
37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New
Hampshire,
won a competition that earned her a place
among the seven-member crew of the Challenger.

Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground,
including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the
shuttle broke up in a forking plume of smoke and fire.

Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold
on live television. There were no survivors.

The Challenger disaster that changed NASA forever - The Hindu
The crew of the Challenger space shuttle. Front row,
from left to right, shows astronauts Mike Smith, Dick
Scobee, Ron McNair and in the rear row, from left to
right, are Ellison Onizuka, school teacher Christa
McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judith Resnik.
(NASA) 

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