The Space Chronicle

12/04/2021

🚀 1961 humanity would forever be changed!

Yuri Gagarin, aboard the Vostok 1, would be the first human to leave the cradle of humanity and enter the vastness of space. He made one orbit before coming back to earth, ejecting from his pod 7 miles from the surface for a leisurely parachute ride back down to earth.

Gagarin, sadly, would never fly in space again. he was forced to become a walking, talking symbol for humanities future.

09/03/2021

🎂 Happy birthday to the first man in space!

Yuri Gagarin, born 1934, was the first man inn space and orbited earth aboard Vostok 1.

27/01/2021

American Heroes, the Apollo 1 Crew that lost their lives in the race to the moon.

Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967.

On Jan. 27, 1967, the three astronauts were preparing for what was to be the first manned Apollo flight. The astronauts were sitting atop the launch pad for a pre-launch test when a fire broke out in their Apollo capsule. The investigation into the fatal accident led to major design and engineering changes, making the Apollo spacecraft safer for the coming journeys to the moon.

02/01/2021

🎂Happy Birthday to Isaac Asimov who would have been 101 years old today; January 2nd 2021!

Asimov is known as one of the greatest writers of science fiction but, was also a professor of biochemestry, founder of the American Humanist Association, and has a asteroid and a crater on Mars named after him!

28/12/2020

🎂Happy Birthday to Nichelle Nichols AKA Lieutenant Uhura! Nichols not only was an icon in space exploration community because of her role in Star Trek, but she also worked as a recruiter for NASA for many years.

25/12/2020

Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green.

This image was produced by the New Horizons composition team, using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans obtained at approximately 9:40 AM on July 14, from a mean range of 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers). The resolution is about 7 kilometers per LEISA pixel. Three infrared wavelength ranges (2.28-2.23, 1.25-1.30 and 1.64-1.73 microns) were placed into the three color channels (red, green and blue, respectively) to create this false color Christmas portrait.

Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

24/12/2020

In what had to be one of the greatest Christmas presents ever, the iconic “Earthrise” photo was taken by the crew of Apollo 8 fifty years ago on Christmas Eve!

18/12/2020

🌎Astronaut Ronald E. Evans is performing a spacewalk during the Apollo 17 missions return to Earth.

👨‍🚀During his EVA, command module pilot Evans retrieved film cassettes from the Lunar Sounder, Mapping Camera, and Panoramic Camera on Sunday, Dec. 17, 1972.

17/12/2020

Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - December 17, 2002

16/12/2020

🎂Happy Birthday to Arthur C Clarke who would of been 103 this year. Clarke was known as a master of science fiction for publishing important works such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous with Rama, and Childhoods End.

Clarke had a degree in mathematics and physics and served as President of the Brittish Interplanetary Society. One of the hallmarks of Clarkes work was his ability to translate his own knowledge of mathematics, physics and science to his books.

15/12/2020

📷This picture of the Gemini VI spacecraft was taken through the hatch window of the Gemini VII spacecraft during rendezvous and station keeping maneuvers at an altitude of 160 miles above the Earth on December 15th, 1965!

🚀With these missions, NASA successfully completed the first rendezvous of two human spacecraft. This photograph, taken by Gemini VII crewmembers Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, shows Gemini VI in orbit 160 miles (257 km) above Earth.

14/12/2020

🛰️This little craft, the Mariner 2, made its historic flyby of Venus on this day in 1962. This was the first time that humans have sent a spacecraft to another planet!

07/12/2020

🚀The final Saturn V rocket sits ready for its December 7th 1972 launch.
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✨The Apollo 17 mission was the final moon landing of the Apollo era and we have not been back since.

04/12/2020

🛰️22 Years ago, Dec. 4th 1998 the USA launched its first node of the International Space Station. The "Unity Node" was launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and connected to the Russian Zarya module!
📷Photo Credit: NASA

30/11/2020

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969.

The second lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 proved the astronauts could make a precise landing. It also gave the crew a chance for a unique rendezvous with the robotic explorer Surveyor 3, which had been on the Moon since 1967. Conrad and Bean spent more than 31 hours on the surface before rejoining crewmate Dick Gordon orbiting overhead in the command module Yankee Clipper.

25/11/2020

🚀Astronaut Jerry L. Ross, anchored to the foot restraint on the Remote Manipulator System, approaches the tower-like Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures (ACCESS) device while floating over the Atlantic.

This spacewalk was part of STS 51-D which flew the Atlantis Space Shuttle and launched on November 25th, 1985

20/11/2020

🚀 Gherman Titov (left), Nikita Khrushchev (center) and Yuri Gagarin (right) at Red Square in Moscow, 20 November 1961.

Titov became the second man in space on August 6, 1961 when he orbited Earth aboard Vostok 2. The first man in space was non other than Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 doing so inside of Vostok 1.

Championing this feat was NIkita Khrushchev in the midst of the Cold War and the Space Race.

10/11/2020

🚀 November, 9th 1967, Apollo 4 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The uncrewed mission was the first "all-up" test of the three stages of the Saturn V rocket and was designed to test all aspects of the launch vehicle. Rather than traditional methods of testing rockets, "all-up" called for a rocket comprised entirely of live stages from the very first launch.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center designed, developed and managed the production of the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Today, Marshall is developing NASA's Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of sending astronauts to Mars and deeper into space than ever before.
📷Image credit: NASA

09/11/2020

🎂Happy Birthday to the one of the most inspirational figures in Space Exploration!

Born 11/09/1934, Carl would of been 86 years old today!

07/11/2020

🛰️An artist's concept of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) flying over Mars. Launched on November 7, 1996, it entered orbit on September 11, 1997.

03/11/2020

Vote While You float: An Astronaut Voting Story
With the excitement of getting to the polls on Election Day many people will have a hard time keeping their feet on the ground, but astronauts who vote literally have to strap themselves down so they don’t float away.

Astronauts orbit the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, but thanks to a bill passed by Texas legislatures in 1997 that put in place technical voting procedure for astronauts – nearly all of whom live in Texas – they also have the ability to vote from space!


For astronauts, the voting process starts a year before launch, when astronauts are able to select which elections (local/state/federal) that they want to participate in while in space. Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with a standard form: the “Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request – Federal Post Card Application.”

‘Space voting’ was first used the same year it was implemented in 1997. NASA astronaut David Wolf became the first American to vote in space while on the Russian Mir Space Station. Current space station resident astronaut Andrew R. Morgan is the most recent astronaut to take advantage of the opportunity.


While astronauts don’t have to wait in line for his ballot like the rest of us, there is one disadvantage to voting in space: they miss out on the highly coveted “I Voted” sticker.

📷Photo: NASA

02/11/2020

🛰️The International Space Station as seen from STS-106 prior to occupancy by the first long term crew! Not quite as expansive as the ISS we know today.

In view are the station's Unity, Zarya, and Zvezda modules, in addition to a docked Progress spacecraft.

31/10/2020

🖖🚀Happy Halloween!🌍🌏🌎

30/10/2020

NASA's SDO Captures Jack-o-Lantern Sun Image
These active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014. The image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the sun at all times from its orbit in space.

29/10/2020

🚀 October 29, 1998, the first American to orbit the earth, made history again. John Glenn became the oldest man to fly in space by serving as a payload specialist on STS-95 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
Glenn proved he had the right stuff even at 77 years old by passing the same physical examination that younger astronauts take.

28/10/2020

Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - October 28, 2002

20/10/2020

On Tuesday October 19th this little spacecraft with a big name, Osiris REx, will briefly touch down on the Asteroid Bennu. While there it will grab a few rock samples and head back to Earth!

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17/10/2020

🎂Happy Birthday to Mae Jemison! Mae is a physician, a Peace Corps volunteer, a teacher, and founder and president of two technology companies in addition to being the first african american woman to go to space!

Mae was a mission specialist on STS-47.

15/10/2020

🛰️Japan's Hayabusa2 sees its shadow during the second touchdown rehearsal on October, 15th 2018. The spacecraft was only 47 meters above Ryugu when this photo was taken.

📷Credit: JAXA