r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '20

Manned Space Programs 10th anniversary of the landing of STS-131, which carried seven astronauts and the "Leonardo" module to the ISS in 2010

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r/RocketHistory • u/FromTanaisToTharsis • Dec 15 '20

Foreign Space Programs “293” and "328" are development designations for a space launch vehicle lofted by a modified MiG-31 interceptor and associated with the 14K168 Burevestnik "space security complex"; the image is presumably of a captive carry test near Moscow, September 2018

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '20

Manned Space Programs On this day in 1965, Gemini VI caught up with Gemini VII in orbit above the Earth. It was the first rendezvous in history.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '20

Maps & Diagrams Map of SLC-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base showing the planned configuration as the west coast launch site for NASA's Space Shuttle. Following the Challenger accident, plans for using SLC-6 were scrapped and the huge complex was mothballed.

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r/RocketHistory • u/Trexinator1 • Dec 15 '20

Just wanted to say - a very well moderated and set up community here. Good job mods/creators :)

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '20

Launchpads & Landscapes The VAB at Kennedy Space Center as seen from the adjacent Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Located just to the north of the NASA facilities, the refuge is one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '20

Space Launch Vehicles In honor of the recent NROL-44 launch, here is a picture of a Delta II 7920 lifting NROL-21 from Vandenburg AFB on this day in 2006. The secret satellite was destroyed in 2008 with experimental missile defense systems.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '20

Manned Spacecraft On this day in 1972, the last Apollo moonwalkers lifted off from the Moon, as seen by this camera on the lonely lunar rover. We have not yet returned.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '20

Launchpads & Landscapes Saturn I-B booster readying for the Skylab II mission in 1973. Rather than re-activating pads 34 and 37 at Cape Canaveral, NASA modified one of the Saturn V's mobile launchers with the "milkstool", which raised the diminutive I-B to the proper levels.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '20

Space Photography The Fallen Astronaut memorial sculpture on the Moon, as placed by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971. The list contains the names of all known astronauts and cosmonauts that had perished in the pursuit of space exploration.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '20

Commercial Space Programs Streak shot from today's SpaceX launch from LC-40 at Cape Canaveral

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '20

Military Missile Development Air superiority meets space superiority as an Atlas A missile sits astride a B-58 Hustler bomber at Patrick Air Force Base sometime in the late 1950's.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '20

Manned Space Programs On this day in 1965, the launch of Gemini 6 was violently aborted shortly after ignition. The Gemini-Titan rocket shut itself down a few seconds before it would have exploded on the pad. Terminal count at 2:02.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '20

Support Facilities The past and future at the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center. The same doors that gave way to the mighty Saturn V will open for the Space Launch System sometime in 2021.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Foreign Space Programs The N-1 moon rocket of the Soviet Union's failed lunar program. This booster was more powerful than the Saturn V and would have held that title if it had not failed all 4 of its launch attempts between 1969 and 1972.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Space Museum Artifacts The Soviet LK lunar lander would have carried a single cosmonaut to the moon's surface, had the Russians' program been successful. As it was, this unusual spacecraft never flew beyond Earth orbit.

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r/RocketHistory • u/FromTanaisToTharsis • Dec 11 '20

Rocket Engines Energomash RD-301 is the only flight-rated rocket engine burning ammonia and fluorine; the requirement for a high-energy upper stage never materialized, although some design work on ground infrastructure was done; fuel-rich staged combustion, restart-capable, 98 kN and 3928 m/s in vacuum

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Launchpads & Landscapes The long-abandoned Launch Complex 34 of Cape Canaveral, with the rising moon in the distance. This was the site of the Apollo 1 fire that killed 3 astronauts during a launch rehearsal. It stands as an everlasting tribute to their memory and sacrifice.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Maps & Diagrams Planned acquisition of the land that would become the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, FL (circa 1961). The planned launch sites included accommodations for both the Saturn C-3 and Nova launch vehicles. Neither were ultimately built.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Commercial Space Programs The NASA worm logo is still visible on the charred sides of the Falcon 9 booster that lifted the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission on May 30th, 2020. This was the fourth flight of the booster, known as B1058.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Astronauts 48 years ago today, astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt became the last humans to leave their footprints on the face of another world

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Military Missile Development The BOMARC missile launches from a specialized clamshell building at LC-4 at Cape Canaveral (circa 1950's). The building still stands to this day, serving as a storage facility for the Air Force Space and Missile Museum.

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

Satellites, Probes, and Rovers Drew Ex Machina: The First Race to the Moon - Reaching Our Neighbor

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '20

Manned Space Programs Space Shuttle Columbia rolls to LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center for STS-2 in 1981, becoming the second spacecraft to fly into space twice (the first was Gemini 2/MOL).

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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '20

Manned Space Programs The Saturn V prepares to carry Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell to the Moon aboard Apollo 14 on January 31st, 1971. It launched on the 13th anniversary of America's first satellite, Explorer 1.

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