Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Thursday, May 05, 2011

50th Anniversary of Alan Shepard's Mercury Flight

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The mission only lasted 15 minutes and 28 seconds, but it put the United States in the middle of the space race with the Russians and was ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Houston Snubbed For Retired Shuttles

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On the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first space shuttle flight NASA decided which four cities will get one of the four retired sp...

50th Anniversary Of First Manned Spaceflight

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April 12 is also a noteworthy day in history for another event that all us space junkies are aware of.    50 years ago today Cosmonaut Y...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Astronaut Alvin Drew On Last Discovery Mission

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As I continue to point out, every month is Black History month.   Sometimes Black history is being made in our current timeframe and isn&#...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

First Native Houstonian In Orbit

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Despite the fact that Houston kids have grown up since the 1960's with NASA's Johnson Space Center in our backyard and being immerse...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Hubble Space Telescope Launch 20th Anniversary

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Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, named for renowned astronomer Edwin Hubble. On April 24, 1990 t...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Girl Power Aboard The International Space Station

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TransGriot Note: My latest piece for Global Comment Though many of us did not notice, April 9, 2010 was a historic day for humankind. Whe...
Monday, April 05, 2010

One Giant Leap For Women Astronauts

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I've been a big fan of space missions and space exploration ever since I watched the 1968 Apollo 8 mission and the Apollo 11 moon landin...
Monday, December 07, 2009

SpaceShipTwo Unveiled By Virgin Galactic

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We're probably a long way off before the scenes of commercial space travel you remember from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey or Battlest...
Monday, November 16, 2009

STS-129 Mission Includes Two African-American Astronauts

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The TransGriot will be tuned in later today to watch the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis at 2:28 PM EST assuming there are no delays or...
Friday, November 13, 2009

NASA Finds Water On The Moon!

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There's water on the moon! More precisely, there's frozen water in the permanently shadowed Cabeus Crater at the lunar South pol...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Apollo 11 40th Anniversary

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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. With those eight words the decade long race to the moon ended and President Kennedy...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

China's New Red Star- In Space

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TransGriot Note: My latest piece for Global Comment. When I was growing up, the space race between NASA and the Soviet space program was a...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Charles Bolden, Jr. Nominated To Become First Black NASA Head

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Retired Marine Corps General Charles Bolden, Jr. made a lot of history during his 13 year NASA career as an astronaut. He logged 680 hours...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Happy Birthday NASA!

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Today is NASA's 50th birthday. A Cold War baby spurred by the October 4, 1957 launch of the Russian Sputnik satellites and their progr...
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