some of the space loot I’ve picked up over the last couple of weeks! �� T-38 book by former NASA astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave. Hypoxia Training Certification from the Southern Aeromedical Institute. PHEnOM Project certificate, patch, and SeaLab patch from @phenomproject. Pilot’s log book and flight profile from Patty Wagstaff. Astronaut oven mitts from @kennedyspacecenter.
<em>Category</em> Actu Spatiale
\ »I know a
That day is coming and its so exciting! ����
Happy Makarov Monday ��Did you know the Makarov PM was the first firearm to enter space? Yuri Gagarin Soviet cosmonauts went to space armed. Members of the cosmonautic corps were equipped with a regular Makarov (PM) gun, the same one that policemen used. It was distributed in case the cosmonauts landed in the wilderness on their
Scientists think that planets like Neptune might be super common!! Check out this Artist Concept of Neptune-mass exoplanets in the icy regions of planetary systems. Beyond a certain distance from a young star, water and other substances remain frozen, leading to an abundant population of icy objects that can collide and form the cores of
December 14, 1972. 44 years ago. Apollo 17 blasts off from the lunar surface. Eugene Cernan becomes the final man to set foot on the Moon as he follows Harrison Schmitt back into the Lunar Module to prepare for ascent. One week prior, Apollo 17 launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Saturn V rocket, beginning
St Lawrence’s mouth and Gaspésie in Quebec (Canada), shot from International Space Station by ESA astronaut @thom_astro. Thomas Pesquet spent his final year before graduation in Montreal (Quebec) at the @polymtl. Credit: ESA/NASA
