Ancestors

Toot

Written by Rudy on 2025-01-27 at 14:37

this week, anniversaries of five significant #space events

1967-01-27 Apollo I

1986-01-28 Challenger

1958-01-31 Explorer 1

1961-01-31 Ham

2003-02-01 Columbia

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Descendants

Written by Rudy on 2025-01-27 at 14:43

[#]OTD January 27 1967, the tragic death of Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee in the Apollo 1 fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

[#]space

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Written by Rudy on 2025-01-28 at 14:41

[#]OTD January 28 1986, President Ronald Reagan comments on the Challenger disaster, ending with a quote from the poem "High Flight" -- "slipped the surly bonds of earth, to touch the face of God"

[#]space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqilE4AAa-M

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Written by Rudy on 2025-01-31 at 15:56

[#]OTD January 31 1958, America launches Explorer 1, their first satellite

[#]space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT39gTs9X7k

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Written by Rudy on 2025-01-31 at 15:58

the first US satellite was to have been Vanguard, but it had issues... following Sputnik 1 and 2 in late 1957 the rush was on, but Vanguard was given the name "Kaputnik" because of all its failures

[#]space

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Written by Rudy on 2025-01-31 at 16:02

please check out my Rocket Cards!

these trading cards were issued at the end of 1957 or early in 1958, prior to Explorer 1 (or they surely would've included a card for it)

[#]space

rudy.ca/rockets1.html

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Written by Rudy on 2025-01-31 at 16:04

[#]OTD January 31 1961, the successful suborbital space flight of Ham the Astrochimp, which was followed three months later by a similar flight by the first American in space, Alan Shepard

[#]space

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/mercury-primate-capsule-and-ham-astrochimp

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Written by Rudy on 2025-01-31 at 16:41

[#]OTD January 31 1971, the launch of Apollo 14, carrying the 5th and 6th humans to walk on the moon, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell

significant, following the unsuccessful, almost catastrophic flight of Apollo 13

probably best remembered for the golf shot

[#]space

https://www.space.com/apollo-14-moon-landing-golf-shot-analysis

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