Space Shuttles typically went transonic approximately 45 seconds after launch.

Here is an impressive picture of the Atlantis mission STS-106 on September 8, 2000 with the shock wave forming a rainbow effect.

Skylab 3 astronaut Jack Lousma in his space shuttle escape suit. NASA image. #Skylab

Imagine a computer chip fails in your 1977 vehicle. Now imagine it's in interstellar space, 15 billion miles away. NASA's Voyager probe just got fixed by this team of brilliant software mechanics.
The backstory: tinyurl.com/3ymrrkux

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Bell Mexico reaches production milestone sbne.ws/r/PenL

Voyager 1: Contact restored with distant space probe, NASA said - USA Today - goo.gl/alerts/ERhaqw #GoogleAlerts

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Progress at Van’s Aircraft generalaviationnews.com/2024/04/21/pro…

I have just discovered that the guy who invented space-based solar power was actually a fellow Czechoslovak migrant. I guess I should have known that... space.com/26175-peter-gl…

Happy Earth Day 2024! 🌎🛰️ NASA picks 6 new airborne missions to study our changing planet. The campaigns will focus on topics ranging from urban air pollution to changing weather patterns.

Here's the details 👇🏼 #EarthDay #EarthDay 2024 #EarthDay EveryDay

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Pete Conrad trains inside the MDA mockup. NASA image. #Skylab

#OnThisDay in 1962, the Century 21 World's Fair opened in Seattle. historylink.org/File/5396

The aviation industry is looking for its own Tesla - Yahoo Finance - goo.gl/alerts/hT7tBf #GoogleAlerts

On #EarthDay2024 , we reflect on our singular home; Tellus, Gaia, Erde, Maa. Let us love each other and love our Earth, so we can all have a future. The Space Age showed how magnificent and alone we are in the universe. Let us be glad.

On #TDIH in 1955, a two-stage Aerobee Hi sounding rocket for upper atmospheric research made its first successful flight. It could reach an altitude of about 168 miles.

A model of the rocket is pictured.

A robot dog is training on Earth to be able to go to space one day news.wjct.org/2024-04-20/a-r…

🌱🌎In celebration of #EarthDay , here's a conversation I had with deep sea explorers Sylvia A. Earle and Liz Taylor. I think you'll enjoy their insights as much as I did! youtu.be/aYLE3BnisXk #EarthDay 2024 #earthdayeveryday #diveinwithus Mission Blue @oceanelders

'I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.' —Alan Shepard, first American in space

This 'Blue Marble' photo, taken by the Apollo 17 crew in Dec 1972, is one of the most widely distributed photos in history and a symbol of a worldwide movement. #EarthDay

Our Earth, our home.

Diagrammatic representation of Skylab's Earth Resources Experiments, and how Earth was observed from the space station in the first systematic attempt to use a crewed platform fo such observations. NASA image. #EarthDay2024