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Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
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Gemini 5 Splashes Down 1965
Posted: Aug 29, 2011Gemini 5 splashed down in the Atlantic just 90 miles off her intended target on 29 August 1965. The USS Lake Champlain was the recovery ship for the astronaut crew […]
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Video Thursday Salute To The Space Program
Posted: Jul 21, 2011Shuttle Atlantis has now landed back on American soil and for the present future no Americans will return to space from our homeland. Mission control is shutting down and laying […]
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First Moon Landing 1969!
Posted: Jul 20, 2011On 20 July 1969 one of the most amazing events in the history of mankind happened, when Americans Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the moon! At 3:06 PM, […]
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Gemini X Launches Forty-Five Years Ago Today!
Posted: Jul 18, 2011On 18 July 1966, astronauts John Young and Michael Collins launched on the mission of Gemini X, the 8th manned Gemini flight, the 16th manned American flight and the 24th […]
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Video Thursday 7.15.11 Salute To The Space Shuttle!
Posted: Jul 14, 2011Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas The Space […]