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May 23, 2024 · May 23, 2024. Article. On May 23, 1984, NASA announced the selection of its 10 th group of astronauts. Chosen from nearly 5,000 applicants, the group comprised 17 astronaut candidates – seven pilots and 10 mission specialists – and included three women and one Hispanic American.
May 13, 2024 · The third and final crew to the Skylab space station completed a record-breaking 84 days in space from November 16, 1973 to February 8, 1974 while continuing the program's scientific objectives of making Earth resources, solar astronomy, and medical experiment observations.
2 days ago · Skylab 2 lasted 28 days, Skylab 3 – 56 days, and Skylab 4 – 84 days. Astronauts performed ten spacewalks, totaling 42 hours and 16 minutes. Skylab logged about 2,000 hours of scientific and medical experiments, 127,000 frames of film of the Sun and 46,000 of Earth.
6 days ago · Space Shuttle Challenger – assembled for launch along with the ET and two SRBs – atop a crawler-transporter en route to the launch pad about one month before the disaster. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable spacecraft operated by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
May 16, 2024 · By Adrian Chmielarz Posted in Witchfire on 2024/05/16. Let’s have a short and sweet Ghost Galleon update post-mortem and then reveal what is next for Witchfire Early Access. At the top level, Ghost Galleon brought a couple of huge reworks of the core systems.
5 days ago · Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
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May 30, 2024 · Dwight was an aeronautical engineer, a captain in the US Air Force and at test pilot school in 1961 when he received a letter from the Pentagon, authorised by President John F Kennedy, asking him...
