Category Archives: NASA history

Atlantis Landing In Just a Few Hours

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

First thing, open NASA TV in another window and watch while you read this. And if you’re looking at mission control, compare to this picture I took yesterday: There was a window with no signal from Atlantis (on the board … Continue reading →

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Shuttle Stamp Covers

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

In the days preceding the final launch, KSC accepted stamped envelopes to hand cancel on the big day. They sold decorated envelopes and stamps (the Mercury issue with Alan Shepard) to make the covers there, but I presume they accepted … Continue reading →

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All STS-135 Tweetup Tweeps

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Here is a group picture of all 150 STS-135 NASA Tweetup attendees. It was just after 7:00 so we appeared on several national morning news shows who were doing live shots of the countdown clock. I’m about four over from … Continue reading →

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The Launch

Posted on July 9, 2011 by
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This gallery contains 31 photos.

I have lots of things I want to post to share the last few days with you, but all you really want to see are launch pictures, right? Right.

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Cape Canaveral Historical Images

Posted on June 30, 2011 by
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My company, Tetra Tech, has worked at Cape Canaveral and Patrick AFBs for the past several years and one co-worker was given these great photos of launches from Cape Canaveral over the years.  He shared them with me. I put them in as … Continue reading →

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Welcome News Sentinel Readers!

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

I hope you are as excited to watch this launch as I am, be it from Florida, the TV, or where I watched several: from my computer screen watching a NASA live link. And hopefully, I’ll be able to post … Continue reading →

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Brief Atlantis History

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

If some kid visits this page looking for info on the sunken city of Atlantis, they’re in for disappointment. NASA awarded the contract to Rockwell International to build Atlantis on Jan 1, 1979, so she’s a child of the 70s. … Continue reading →

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17 Days Until Launch

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

I was on TV last night. Or so I hear. Not an interview or picture, but a friends tells me they read a bit from the press release near the end of the 5:00 news. Nifty.  I was hoping that … Continue reading →

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Without Looking, Name 12 Men Who’ve Walked on the Moon

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

I’ll bet most everyone can get one, and more than half can get three. But you, you’re a space nerd. You’re reading this aren’t you? You should know this. The 12 men who’ve walked on the moon: Learn it, know … Continue reading →

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We DO Need Stinking Badges

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Mission and Program patches have been created since the early days of NASA, a tradition borrowed from the military. Designing the patch is the job of the flight crew, although they may use ideas or people outside of the mission. … Continue reading →

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National Wildlife Refuuuu..What’s That??

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Juxtaposition is a great word. At Kennedy Space Center, the cutting edge of technology and human achievement, there are also huge tracts of land that are undeveloped, natural. KSC and Merritt Island’s National Wildlife Refuge, born at  the same time. … Continue reading →

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Some Great Images

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Since I can use all the images I want, I’ll just post a bunch I’ve been holding on to. If I wait to have a post to go with each one, I’ll run out of time before the launch. Is … Continue reading →

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Acronym! Acronym! Learn Your TLAs PDQ

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Every world has their own language. If going to France, one bones up on their French. Thus it behooves (yes, I said behooves) us to learn to speak NASA. And that means acronyms. Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, call them what you … Continue reading →

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Construction of the VAB – 1966

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

The VAB is the largest single-story building in the world, the fourth largest building by volume, and is the tallest building in the US outside of an urban area. The VAB is 526 feet tall and covers 8 acres. 10,000 pounds of … Continue reading →

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Brief Shuttle History

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

The Space Shuttle program was born only two months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. President Nixon had appointed a Space Task Group to plot the future US course in space earlier that year, and they … Continue reading →

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