Round-up of the fierce competition of flying the first methane/LOX powered rocket to orbit, January 2021 version (2/2)

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Our very own feline engineer trained in spaceflight featuring in our Deep Space Desperados Deck 🚀 🌒



Thank you to Rex Crowle for taking us on this space adventure ❤️

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GEMINI 4. Second crewed spaceflight. Crew James McDivitt and Edward White. Launched 03.06.1965. COSPAR ID - 1965-043A / SATCAT no. 1390. Recovered 07.08.1965. Art by David Lawson.

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No Shortage of Dreams is my blog. I tell the story of spaceflight through missions & programs that didn't happen. In other words, it's spaceflight advance planning placed in its historical context. https://t.co/LVBU2gXZsU

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Original image is from an ancient spaceflight document whose name I forget

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Superb sketch from San Diego Union Tribune about Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician whose calculations at were critical to the first & subsequent US crewed spaceflights

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Yuri Gagarin became the first human to cross into outer space. His orbital spaceflight aboard the Vostok 1 consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at 169 kilometres at its lowest point.
YURI GAGARIN Shirt
https://t.co/75KZibe2tm

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Ship concept for one of the ladies
its actually orientated like a tower.

Basically it follows the same sort of realistic spaceflight as the Expanse

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Illustrations from the Spaceflight Chronology, a 1979 book imagining the development of spacefaring vehicles up to the 23rd Century. Obviously it has since been largely superceded, but the lovely illustrations therein were painted by the great Rick Sternbach.

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17 July 1975. 16.19.09 UTC/GMT. American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked in orbit. The first international space mission. Apollo–Soyuz was the last manned United States spaceflight for nearly six years until the first launch of the Space Shuttle in April 1981,

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If you're not into piloted spaceflight only in cislunar space, however, a modest upgrade of AAP-type tech can give you Mars and Venus with sample return: https://t.co/5oSv8GuVV2

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Meet Krish Ailas⁠, a freshman at Sequoia, interested in astronomy, physics & spaceflight.⁠ Born as a girl, under the name Maya, but puberty made things a little murky. Discover Krish's story at the latest episode NOW. : https://t.co/uFloZmYnry

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I’m just going to say what we’re all thinking, the patch is the most badass patch in spaceflight history

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Women have been working hard to get into space since the earliest days of spaceflight. and ' ASTRONAUTS is the perfect format for conveying their fight for equality.

https://t.co/1wqDoUpChD

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NOT an actual representation of what we'll see!

Today (likely) is the big day for , , / and spaceflight in general! The first private company will send crew to the !

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NASA's new cosmic ray simulator is one small step toward the moon and Mars https://t.co/7E3dPTEusz https://t.co/Jnyr9gPO4b

Promising research into radiation and long duration spaceflight - very interesting report

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has refreshed https://t.co/SeOeYpPlf8 with a new look ahead of Demo-2 & the return of human spaceflight to American soil. Includes a dedicated section to human spaceflight to Earth Orbit, the Moon, Mars & Beyond - and the entire mission profile.

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My blog, name of DSFP's SPACEFLIGHT HISTORY, is crammed full of good stuff, and it's made possible by my wonderful Patreon patrons. This thread is made up of links to randomly selected nifty posts. 1/

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Just published - "Prelude to the Lunar Base Systems Study I: Lunar Oxygen (1983)" - https://t.co/nRfXJFT4Rq - DSFP's Spaceflight History Blog. Please enjoy responsibly. 😉🌖🚀#histSTM

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