April 2012
49 posts
Welcome Home, Space Shuttle Enterprise! Live Long & Prosper!
Today in history: Sally Ride & Guion Bluford Jr became the 1st woman & African-American selected for the NASA Astronaut program in 1982.
Actually they were a part of Group 8 (the TFNGs) selected in 1978.
Both made their first space flights in 83, if I’m not mistaken.
*jerk*
i believe on April 19, 1982 they were both tapped to fly. yes, in 1983 ride flew on sts-7 & bluford flew on sts-8.
Today in history: Sally Ride & Guion Bluford Jr became the 1st woman & African-American selected for the NASA Astronaut program in 1982.
SPACE SHARES: ATTN DC followers →
spaceshares.tumblr.com
Tuesday (4.17) at 10 a.m. ET the space shuttle Discovery and its carrier 747 will arrive for a 40-minute aerial tour.
According to the Washington Post:
BEST PLACES TO WATCH
District of Columbia
●The Mall, including Memorial Bridge, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the…
●Hains Point at East Potomac Park, south of Jefferson Memorial and 14th Street Bridge.
●Southwest Waterfront Park.
Virginia
●Long Bridge Park, 475 Long Bridge Dr., Arlington.
●Old Town Alexandria waterfront.
●Gravelly Point, just off George Washington Parkway, near National Airport.
Maryland
●National Harbor, just off the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Prince George’s County.
Details are available online at www.airandspace.si.edu/collections/discovery/.
More details here.
YO, SPACEHEADZ! DO YOU LIKE TO PARTY?
“Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!”
—Yuri Gagarin
NASA Open Government Plan 2.0 →
open.nasa.gov
FRESH OFF THE INTERNOT.
Architizer: Dismantling a Piece of American Lore →
architizer.com
thanks to my boy max for passing this gem along
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
—Sagan
