Today In Space History @TodayInSpace_
I live tweet the history of earthly space flight. From the first rockets to the first man and beyond. Earth Joined October 2018-
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October 24 1851 - William Lassell's Discovery of Uranus Moons Umbriel and Ariel. Using the same telescope, Lassell also discovered Triton, a moon of Neptune (10 Oct 1846) as well as the eighth moon of Saturn, Hyperion.
October 23 1991 - Landing of STS-34. During the mission astronauts Baker, Chang-Diaz, Lucid, McCulley, Williams helped deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.
October 23 1961 - Freedom 7 deposited in Smithsonian. The Freedom 7 Mercury capsule in which Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first suborbital space flight, was presented to the National Air Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
October 22 1966 - Launch of Luna 12. @roscosmos Luna 12 was launched towards the Moon. The spacecraft was equipped with a television system that obtained and transmitted photographs of the lunar surface.
October 22 1965 - 10 areas on the moon selected as subjects for Lunar Orbiter. NASA announced that it had selected 10 areas on the moon as subjects for Lunar Orbiter's cameras during 1966. These areas encompassed most major types of lunar terrain.
October 20th 1970 - Zond 8 Lunar Flight. Final circumlunar flight; successfully recovered October 26, 1970. The announced objectives were investigations of the moon and circumlunar space and testing of onboard systems.
Correction - This should be 1989 not 1986. Thank you!
October 19th 1986 - STS-34 - Wakeup Song: Hail Purdue. Flight: STS-34. "Hail Purdue" , 2."Reveille", 3."Anchors Aweigh" as tribute to commander Don Williams and pilot Mike McCulley who were both Purdue and Naval Academy graduates. @LifeAtPurdue
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October 19th 1986 - STS-34 - Wakeup Song: Hail Purdue. Flight: STS-34. "Hail Purdue" , 2."Reveille", 3."Anchors Aweigh" as tribute to commander Don Williams and pilot Mike McCulley who were both Purdue and Naval Academy graduates. @LifeAtPurdue
October 19th 1967 - Mariner 5 Flyby of Venus. Mariner 5 passed within 2,480 miles (3,990 km) of Venus and sent back the most detailed data yet gathered about what it is like there.
October 19th 1948 - First views of earth from near-orbital height. Photographs of the earth's surface taken from altitudes between 60 and 70 miles by cameras installed in rockets, were released by the Navy.
October 19th 1899 - Goddard's dream. On this date, while climbing a cherry tree, the ten year old, Robert Goddard had a vision. He saw a huge flying machine, propelled by whirling unequal horizontal centrifugal devices, rising from a pit, heading for Mars.
October 18th 1977 - Charles Kowal's Discovery of 2060 Chiron. it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs—bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt.
October 18th 1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space. Félicette is the only cat to have survived spaceflight; a second feline was launched on 24 October, but the mission resulted in a fatality.
October 17th 1964 - IBM contract for the Apollo backup computer. MSC and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) negotiated a $1,500,000 fixed-price contract for the Apollo guidance and navigation system backup computer. @IBM
October 17th 1963 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 3 selected including @TheRealBuzz , Anders, Bassett, Bean, Cernan, Chaffee, Collins, Cunningham, Eisele, Freeman, Gordon, Schweickart, Scott, Williams, Clifton. @NASAhistory @NASA
October 17th 1933 - Today marks the birth of William Alison 'Bill' Anders. American pilot astronaut 1963-1969. Member of first crew to orbit the moon. @NASAhistory
The capsule was dragged for kilometres across the icy sea. Only in the morning was the crew able to emerge from the capsule. The recovery crews were surprised they were still alive. (3/3)
October 16th 1976 - Rough Landing of Soyuz 23. The capsule landed at in Lake Tengiz in -20 deg C conditions in a snowstorm. The wet parachute filled and dragged the capsule below the surface, cooling the capsule. (1/3)
Heating systems had to be turned off in the capsule to conserve battery power. Amphibious vehicles attempted to recover the spacecraft but could not reach it. Finally swimmers managed to attach a cable to a helicopter. (2/3)
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