Posted by Ray Katz in NASA, history
From NASA's Flickr stream: von Braun & Kennedy at Cape Canaveral
For $26 billion, NASA gave us a couple of great moonlandings—and a slew of photos, all in the public domain.
NASA has culled through its huge collection and posted an interesting subset on Flickr. Take a look!
Vehicle Assembly Building - under construction!
Astronauts—especially the early astronauts—are generally very proud people. That’s why, during the Gemini program, nobody would dare be called “co-pilot”. The crew was called commander and pilot. (In fact, the “pilot” WAS kind of like a co-pilot.) Of all astronauts, probably the proudest were the original seven Mercury astronauts. And they had every right to [...]
Acting NASA Administrator Christopher Scolese told the House Appropriations Committee that some of the stimulus money will be used to help speed the development of private spacecraft for delivering astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Competition to deliver astronauts Currently, two companies have been developing spacecraft capable of being used for this purpose: SpaceX [...]
Okay. Not much to say except: a Japanese astronaut broadcast his preparation of sushi aboard the International Space Station. (Salmon! My favorite!)
