A podcast about the history of NASA human spaceflight. From Freedom 7 to STS-135 in chronological order. No longer active on Twitter. Find me on Bluesky.
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Alright, folks, I think that's it for this account. I've finished copying my posts over to Bluesky where I'm at bsky.app/profile/thespaceabo…. From now on, further updates will go there and on the show's website thespaceabove.us
Sorry for the hassle, but I think it's time.
To be clear, I'll be keeping the account open (and unlocked) to prevent a bot from taking it and posting spam as me, but there won't be any new content.
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The site is recovering from some hardware failure over the weekend, but in the meantime...
Podcast 515 is here with @spaceaboveus to chat about all things space in the Dragon Ball universe! It's a great one, so tune in today!
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New supplemental! It's been a while since the last episode. What's going on? Fear not, dear listener, it’s good news. Well, mostly good news. And really it’s more good for me than for you but– you know what, just give the supplemental a listen.
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ALT A vector diagram from an orbital mechanics homework assignment.
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It's funny how interstellar is billed as hard sci-fi because they went all in on animating the black hole and gesture at relativity but there's not a single plot element that actually makes sense
Great quote from Expedition 1 commander Bill Shepherd: "I think it’s critically important that we have a space program if only to fulfill this need for a technical society to face challenges, surmount them, and move on."
Haha, I love this joke. And when I finally get my Expedition 1 episode done we'll be learning a surprising amount about the IT situation on the ISS!
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Nice shots of TDRS-C being mated with IUS in the VPF for STS-26 back in 1988
Update on delays, and the exciting personal news that's part of the problem (spoiler, I'm getting a master's degree!) thespaceabove.us/updates/202…
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It was a chain of circumstances, not one error, that caused mission failure.
Oversimplification does not help those who strive to prevent accidents in the future. Explore the rich and full context of an accident if you want to learn from it.
Otherwise you will repeat it
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What happens when the Space Shuttle ignites its OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System) engines in space?
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Now that Don Pettit is back in space - it's time to remember this story again:
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Having everything be a power of 10 is useful for most quantities. But not for ambient temperature. And Fahrenheit is more human-scaled than Celsius.
New episode! On STS-98 we're delivering the US Laboratory Module: Destiny. This episode is a 10,000 word beast with all sorts of fun stories, including quite a few from our buddy @AstroTomJones!
Show notes here: thespaceabove.us/episodes/ep… #STS98
ALT Astronauts flying through the newly installed Destiny laboratory module on the ISS.
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40 years ago #OTD, President Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, calling upon NASA "to choose as our first citizen passenger in the history of our space program—one of America's finest—a teacher."
Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan, prime and backup Teacher-in-Space
ALT Sharon Christa McAuliffe (left), from Concord, New Hampshire, and Barbara R. Morgan of McCall, Idaho, were named NASA Teacher-in-Space Project prime and backup payload specialists, respectively, for the first citizen observer position of the STS program, the disastrous January 1986 STS-51L Challenger flight.
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A new blog post. A history lesson about risk management and decision making at NASA.
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Just FYI to folks. Also, it sounds like Patreon is going to phase out the "pay on the 1st of the month" plan that I've been on since the beginning. Not really sure why. But you can expect a switch to the other model some time in the next few months (whenever I get around to it)
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New blog post on a timely subject:
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New episode! On STS-97 the Space Shuttle is delivering its heaviest ISS payload yet: the P6 truss. We’ll climb high above the payload bay, consider some strange analogies, and both slack off and tense up. Most of that will make sense once you listen.
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ALT A photo of the ISS with its newly unfurled solar arrays at the end of STS-97.
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#OTD in 1999, @chandraxray launched into space, beginning its mission to investigate long-standing mysteries across the @NASAUniverse.
In celebration of #Chandra25, the team has released 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects >> go.nasa.gov/3YgvtCJ
ALT The bay doors of space shuttle Columbia are opened in orbit, revealing Earth above and beyond the shuttle and the carefully stored Chandra X-ray Observatory in its payload bay compartment, as members of the Columbia crew prepare to deploy the orbiting spacecraft and its powerful X-ray telescope.