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T-1: Shuttle Program: Top Ten Images From A Thirty Year History
Image NASA As we count the hours (perhaps only 24 hours, perhaps more because of a last minute problem) until the last shuttle launch, many of us are reflecting on memories we have of the shuttle, it’s...
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Space Shuttle Countdown: A Tribute To Roberta Lynn Bondar And Julie Payette:...
Image: Canadian Space Agency For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a mom or an astronaut when I grew-up. I think we can blame Star Trek for the astronaut bit. As a small child, I would look up...
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Shuttle Countdown T-0 Launch Day: A Tribute to Atlantis
Graphic design credit: NASA/Amy Lombardo. NASA publication number: SP-2010-08-161-KSC This morning will mark the final launch of a NASA Space Shuttle into orbit around Earth on its way to the...
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NASA, Shuttles and Space for the Future
Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1 One of my favorite memories of this summer is the day I sat with my daughter snuggled in my lap and watched the final space shuttle launch. As Atlantis took to the skies, I...
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April Was Extra Geeky for the DC Area!
I’m guessing when you think of the Nation’s Capital, it’s likely your thoughts steer more towards politics and government, rather than science and engineering. Living in the DC area has always proved...
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The GeekMoms Podcast #27: Fight For Space, Reigniting Our Passion For Space...
Have you ever wondered how the US got to the point where funding missions to space just isn’t that important? Paul Hildebrandt wondered, and he’s launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary...
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This Week In Tears
Discovery in its current home at Udvar-Hazy Center. Photo by Ruth Suehle. Facebook is often the neon sign for synchronicity in our lives. A friend you haven’t seen since elementary school comments on...
View ArticleListen to the Shuttle Launch With a Side of Ambient Tunes
The Space Shuttle Discovery will be taking its final journey this Thursday (barring the need to call it out of mothballs in the future to divert a marauding asteroid). I love to watch space launches,...
View ArticleSTS-133: Final Flight for Space Shuttle Discovery
This afternoon marks a historic moment for NASA’s space shuttle Discovery. Today will be the 39th and final time it will launch from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. After nearly three...
View ArticlePretend You’re an Astronaut and Wake Up To Shatner
Unless you have a very specific interest in space program journalism, the NASA news feed is usually on the dry side–headlines like “Crew wraps up flight” or “Guy you never heard of just left his job.”...
View ArticleShuttle Countdown T-9 Days: A Tribute to Challenger
Challenger… simply the word evokes memories of one of the worst disasters of the NASA space program. While we will always remember that final mission, Challenger's legacy is so much bigger. In the late...
View ArticleGeekMom Memories of the Challenger Disaster
While reminiscing on the shuttle program here on GeekMom, it was hard not to think about where we were and what we were doing when Challenger exploded. Helene McLaughlin (Me) I was only three and a...
View ArticleKennedy Space Center: A View From My Teenage Years
I for one am glad my parents never gave up on me. They continued to expose me to new things despite my apathy, teen angst and surly behavior. When I mock yawned as my dad began reading The Hobbit to...
View ArticleShuttle Countdown T-8 Days: Playlist for Last Flight of Atlantis
Music has been the astronauts' wake-up call on space missions for decades, starting back when Apollo astronauts were serenaded with popular songs by mission control colleagues. Some rollicking travel...
View ArticleShuttle Countdown T-7 Days: A Tribute to Discovery
The Discovery space shuttle was the third space rated orbiter in the NASA fleet after Columbia and Challenger. Before its retirement earlier this year, it was the shuttle fleet's leader at 39 missions....
View ArticleShuttle Countdown T-8 Days: Playlist for Last Flight of Atlantis
Reading Time: 1 minute Music has been the astronauts’ wake-up call on space missions for decades, starting back when Apollo astronauts were serenaded with popular songs by mission control colleagues....
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Shuttle Countdown T-7 Days: A Tribute to Discovery
Reading Time: 1 minute Graphic design credit: NASA/Amy Lombardo. NASA publication number: SP-2010-08-164-KSC The Discovery space shuttle was the third space rated orbiter in the NASA fleet after...
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Space Shuttle Countdown: A Tribute to Roberta Lynn Bondar and Julie Payette:...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image: Canadian Space Agency For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a mom or an astronaut when I grew-up. I think we can blame Star Trek for the astronaut bit. As a small...
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Space-Flown Buzz Lightyear Inducted Into Smithsonian National Air and Space...
Reading Time: 1 minute Remember way back when Buzz Lightyear flew to space? Yes, the toy — and yes, really to space! He spent 468 days in orbit between May 2008 and September 2009. During his time on...
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A Visit to the Space Shuttle Discovery
Reading Time: 6 minutesOverlooking the Space Shuttle Discovery. Credit: Jules Sherred On Canada Day — July 1, 2012 — I departed my home province of British Columbia to spend five much needed weeks with...
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