tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21290570907128581322024-03-12T21:37:22.701-04:00Space OdditiesThose with the Right Stuff also had the Right Sense of Humor! Sharing the great gags, pranks & stunts astronauts pulled on & off Earth.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569643050865520577noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129057090712858132.post-91619575475127720492014-08-12T07:43:00.002-04:002014-08-12T07:43:23.382-04:00Robin Williams' "Good Morning Discovery!" Wake-up Call <div style="text-align: center;">
"Gooooood morning, Discovery!" Robin Williams provided this wake-up call to NASA's 1988 STS-26 "return to flight" mission after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569643050865520577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129057090712858132.post-67246107650508847752014-08-05T09:51:00.001-04:002014-08-05T09:51:27.357-04:00Neil deGrasse Tyson Forges A Wormhole & Talks with CuriosityOn August 5, 2012 we bit our nails and held our breath in the midst of the sheer terror/joy as NASA's Curiosity rover <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hXqzkH7YA" target="_blank">landed on Mars</a> via a ROCKET-POWERED SKY CRANE.<br />
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The night before landing, however, Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Curiosity Rover shared an EPIC conversation over Twitter:<br />
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Feeling the tug of Mars: Fewer than 34 hours to go, Mars' gravity is pulling me in for a suspenseful landing <a href="http://t.co/hsDLEW4l">http://t.co/hsDLEW4l</a><br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231835702495682561">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Call me, maybe? All the ways I could phone home after landing on Mars [video] <a href="http://t.co/IiqrN6LW">http://t.co/IiqrN6LW</a><br />
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When I land on Mars, it'll be 5:31 UTC Aug. 6. See this handy chart for conversion to your time zone: <a href="http://t.co/7zJ6Z2vw">http://t.co/7zJ6Z2vw</a><br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231847639551987713">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Mars on my mind...Thinking of forging a wormhole through the Twitterverse and having a conversation with the Rover en route.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231861974064050176">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231874673447686144">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Neil deGrasse Tyson here on Earth, tweeting you, via a wormhole, through deep space. Do you copy?<br />
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<wormhole actived!> Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a> I read you loud and clear. 5x5<br />
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, How does it feel out there as you near planet Mars? Are you Cold? Hot? Or just right?<br />
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, I'm snug as a bug in a backshell. My MMRTG gives power & heat. So much so, I use radiators to keep temps just right<br />
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, What exactly is giving power to your Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231876513996353538">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, MMRTG is powered by plutonium-238. I use thermocouples to convert heat from its natural decay to electric current<br />
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, just as I suspected. An element named after Pluto. Discovered when everyone thought the little iceball was a planet.<br />
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, for being millions of miles away it's faster than say... some TV broadcasts from London to Los Angeles ;-)<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231878740215492608">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, What's the size of your landing spot on Mars? Is it small? It's a whole planet, I'd be happy just to land anywhere.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231878798470164482">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, target area is 12 miles x 4 miles, right next door to some of Mars' most intriguing rocks & soil<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231879884933324801">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Wait a minute. You travelled a 100-million miles in space & hit an area 12x4 miles? Cool. Way better than a hole-in-one<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231881242499510273">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, You call EDL 7-minutes of terror. Sure, to you. But to us on Earth, it's 7 minutes + 15 minutes signal time.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231878879650934784">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Are all your parts working as they should? Anything you're not telling us back here on Earth? (I won't tell JPL.)<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231879962934800384">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, all that's been checked out, checks out. Got a lot of calibrations & checkouts to do once I'm on the surface<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231880610036211712">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, You've been traveling for nine months. How did you pass your time? Did they let you play "Angry Birds Space"?<br />
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, epic game of "I Spy," lots of Bowie. Well, that and science. I took radiation readings with my RAD instrument<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231882052130205697">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, So you're being subjected to ionizing radiation from space? You're not only a robot, you're a guinea pig.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231882403029860352">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Did you enjoy long periods of silence while travelling through space, or was JPL always trying to talk to you?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231882473112489985">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, They respected my space (ha ha). I love hearing from the Deep Space Network, tho. It keeps me grounded<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231883119622504448">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, How autonomous are you? When you get to Mars can you just go six-wheeling around as you please?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231883224702386177">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, while I can do short autonomous drives, longer sequences are sent by the team. Wonder if they'll let me do donuts?<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231884225744347137">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, What's your favorite experiment that you will conduct on Mars? Or is that like picking your favorite child?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231884408301428736">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, Pick between sniffing Mars with SAM, digesting soil with Chemin or zapping rocks with ChemCam?? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TooMuchAwesome?src=hash">#TooMuchAwesome</a><br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231885036050333696">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Scientists conceived you, engineers designed you. But seriously, who do you like better, Scientists or Engineers?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231885233664978944">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, Scientists v Engineers? I'm staying out of that one. We've all gotta work together for a lonnnng time<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231886408208502784">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, After you land on Mars, what's your life expectancy? (I hope somebody alerted you that we're not bringing you back.)<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231886692733296641">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, My warranty is 1 Martian year (23 Earth months). <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsRovers">@MarsRovers</a> were designed for 90-day missions... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/8yearslater?src=hash">#8yearslater</a><br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231889099127128065">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, You're the size of an SUV, but with six wheels. What's the fastest that you can move?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231889247156723712">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, Top speed = 1.5 inches/sec on flat, hard ground. I'm not out to set Mars land speed records. I brake for science<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231889922343198721">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Bummer. You travel through space at seven miles per second, only to drive around on Mars at 1.5 inches per second.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231890764135821314">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, What are your instructions if a Martian crawls onto your back and rides you like a Rodeo Bull?<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231890869173772288">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, Martians? RODEO BULL? That wasn't in the briefing. But you never know what you'll find on a mission of discovery<br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231891479994454016">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, We've got the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Olympics?src=hash">#Olympics</a> back here on Earth. But many of us will be focussed on you and your landing. Do us proud.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231891715169087488">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, As for your complicated landing on Mars Sunday night 10:30pm PT -- do not try, do.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231892025547554816">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity">@MarsCuriosity</a>, Neil deGrasse Tyson signing out on Earth. Back to work - for us both. Closing my Twitterverse wormhole to Mars.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231893134471217152">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson">@neiltyson</a>, I've got <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAJPL">@NASAJPL</a> on the other line. Back to work indeed. This was fun :D <wormhole deactivated><br />
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/statuses/231893762173980673">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Once again, I am compelled to tweet…<br />
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The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/231893951483879425">August 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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On April 11, 1970 the seventh manned mission in the American space program, Apollo 13, launched with the intention to land on the moon. On April 13 an explosion in the oxygen tanks crippled the service module, damaging the Command Module. Their journey back to Earth had been achieved using the Lunar landing Module as an impromptu "life raft", towing the crippled Command Service Module (CSM) behind it for some 400,000 miles.<br />
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Due to the incredible ingenuity of the astronauts and the crew on the ground, Apollo 13 was brought back safely and the mission has since been called a “successful failure.”</div>
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Afterward, the engineers at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, builder of the mission's Lunar Landing Module prepared a tongue-in-cheek "Towing Bill" addressed to Rockwell, builders of the crippled CSM.<br />
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The second class of astronauts chosen by NASA, 'The New Nine', may have in fact been the 'Top Secret Ten'. At least that's what Jim Lovell and Pete Conrad wanted the Press Corps to think.<br />
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The two pranksters would intentionally let members of the press overhear them speak about Walter Frisbee, a top secret astronaut with wildly incredible talents that NASA wanted to keep hush, hush. Was he the son of a Romanian nobleman? Maybe. Was he the most fearless, talented test pilot that ever took to the skies? Definitely.<br />
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The other members of The New Nine got on-board with the joke and as reporters quizzed each one about Frisbee they'd acknowledge his existence, excuse his absence due to his mysterious, extraordinary training and say nothing else. Rumor has it the press actually started writing about Fearless Frisbee in the papers and that's when NASA pulled the plug on this little prank.<br />
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<i>[Within the last few years an account on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/Astro_Walt" target="_blank">Astro_Walt</a>, has popped up with the simple bio, "Pilot and astronaut, retired." Who knows, maybe it wasn't a prank after all....] </i></div>
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On January 3, 2013, William Shatner (Captain Kirk) began a series of what is quite possibly the most epic conversation ever when he asked astronaut Chris Hadfield (who was then living aboard the International Space Station) via Twitter: "Are you tweeting from space? MBB."</div>
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"On September 10, 1973, controllers in Houston were startled to hear a woman's voice beaming down from Skylab. Using a sexy tone of voice and calling startled Capsule Communicator Bob Crippen by name, the woman explained: "The boys haven't had a home-cooked meal in so long I thought I'd bring one up." After several minutes in which she described forest fires seen from space and the beautiful sunrise, the woman said: "Oh oh. I have to cut off now. I think the boys are floating up here toward the command module and I'm not supposed to be talking to you." As the Skylab crew subsequently revealed, Garriott had recorded his wife Helen during a private radio transmission the night before."</div>
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Though Apollo 10 was a very successful mission, a declassified NASA transcript reveals that Tom Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan had a little<i> stinky</i> situation arise. It's okay to laugh -- even<span style="background-color: white;"> </span>professional, highly trained, space-exploring astronauts think poop is funny.... It was literally all <i>shits & giggles</i> on Day 6 of their mission when they discovered some floating feces inside their capsule. </div>
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<b>NASA and its astronauts</b> have achieved many great things -- moon landings, the Hubble Telescope, sending Voyager 1 to interstellar space -- but their greatest badge of honor could possibly be the fact that they somehow managed to make a <i>pretty freakin' sweet</i> parody of "Gangnam Style". (Truly turning the impossible into the possible here, folks.)<br />
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NASA Johnson put this video out in December of 2012 to spark public interest in the space program. And. It. Rocks. <b>Mike Massimino, </b>veteran of two Space Shuttle missions that serviced Hubble, looks on disapprovingly in the video... but eventually even he breaks down and gets into it. <b>Clay Anderson</b>, Mission Specialist who has 152 days logged aboard the International Space Station, shows us his KILLER dance moves and also three time extra-vehicular activity spacewalker, <b>Tracy Caldwell Dyson</b>, makes several happy cameos.<br />
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[Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/astro_mike" target="_blank">Mike Massimino</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Astro_Clay" target="_blank">Clay Anderson</a> on Twitter if you dig their moves.]</div>
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Welcome to NASA's Johnson Space Center</div>
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We are coming in hot so don't burn up as we enter</div>
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We do science everyday that affects your daily life</div>
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Throw them up for manned space flight</div>
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Science everywhere</div>
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As we engineer the marvels</div>
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And take us way beyond earth's levels</div>
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Science everywhere </div>
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Because we engineer the marvels</div>
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Flys us through the air</div>
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Control the mission out of Johnson</div>
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This is ground, hey!</div>
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And this is space, hey!</div>
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Tell me Houston what's the problem </div>
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It's okay!</div>
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It's okay!</div>
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NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!</div>
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EYYYYYY science daily!</div>
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EYYYYYY it's amazing!</div>
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NA, NA, NA, NA ey ey ey ey ey ey!!</div>
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Orbiting earth, international space station</div>
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Where we work and live in space with a crew from several nations</div>
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Got Japanese, and Russians, that European charm </div>
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Throw them up, like the Canada Arm</div>
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Kicking out research</div>
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29k cubic feet, revolves around the earth</div>
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Science microgravity, revolves around the earth</div>
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Columbus, JEM, and Destiny</div>
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Kicking out research</div>
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Train the astronauts at Johnson</div>
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To go to space, hey!</div>
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To go to space, hey! </div>
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Cause the missions of tomorrow </div>
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Start today, hey!</div>
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Start today, hey!</div>
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As we engineer the future day by day</div>
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NASA Johnson STYLE!</div>
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NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!</div>
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NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!</div>
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EYYYYYY science daily!</div>
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NA, NA, NA, NA, NASA STYLE!</div>
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EYYYYYY it's amazing!</div>
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Orion or SLS, MPCV </div>
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We cannot feel the floor, cause the lack gravity</div>
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The destinations are an asteroid, mars, or moon </div>
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We are blasting off start the countdown soon</div>
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EYYYYYY science daily!</div>
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EYYYYYY it's amazing!</div>
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NASA Johnson Style</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569643050865520577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129057090712858132.post-90976159556735990102014-05-26T13:15:00.000-04:002014-05-26T14:46:03.784-04:00Remembering the Lost Astronauts<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><b>High Flight<span style="font-size: x-small;"> by John Gillepie Magee, Jr.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">of sun split clouds - and done a hundred things</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">you have not dreamed of</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">wheeled and soared and swung</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">high in the sunlit silence hov'ring there.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I've chased the shouting wind along and flung</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">my eager craft through footless halls of air.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Up, up the long delirious, burning blue</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">where never lark or even eagle flew</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">and while with silent, lifting mind I've trod</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">the high untrespassed sanctity of space</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">put out my hand, and touched the face of God.</span></i></div>
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<b><u>T-38 Training Jet Crash</u> </b>- <i>October 31, 1964</i></div>
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Freeman was on landing approach to Ellington AFB near Houston, TX. He ultimately died due to a goose smashing the left side of the cockpit canopy of his T-38 jet trainer. Flying shards of Plexiglas entered the engine intake and caused both engines to flame out.</div>
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<li>Theodore Freeman <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">T-38 Training Jet Crash</u> - <i>February 28, 1966</i></div>
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The original Gemini 9A crew were killed while attempting to land their T-38 at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouriin bad weather. Elliot See misjudged his approach and crashed into the McDonnell Aircraft factory adjacent to the airport, where the two astronauts had been headed for simulator training.</div>
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<li>Elliot See <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY)</span></i></li>
<li>Charles Bassett <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Apollo 1 Pad Fire</u> - <i>January 27, 1967</i></div>
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A fire in the cabin claimed the lives of all three Apollo 1 crew members as they rehearsed the launch sequence for their planned February 21 launch.</div>
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<li>Gus Grissom <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
<li>Edward White, II <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
<li>Roger Chaffee <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY)</span></i></li>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">T-38 Training Jet Crash</u> - <i>October 5, 1967</i></div>
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A mechanical failure caused the aileron controls to jam on his T-38 while traveling from Cape Kennedy to Houston.</div>
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<li>Clifton Williams <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY, Marine Corps)</span></i></li>
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<b style="text-decoration: underline;">F-104 Training Jet Crash</b> - <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </span><i>December 8, 1967</i></div>
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While practicing a series of high speed, quick descent landing profiles, the aircraft hit the runway hard and the landing gear collapsed. The aircraft belly caught fire and the canopy shattered.</div>
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<li>Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
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Space Shuttle Challenger</u></b> - <i>January 28, 1986</i><br />
Broke up 73 seconds after lift-off due to a faulty O-ring.<br />
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<li>Greg Jarvis <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
<li>Christa McAuliffe</li>
<li>Ronald McNair</li>
<li>Ellison Onizuka <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
<li>Judith Resnik</li>
<li>Michael J. Smith <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY)</span></i></li>
<li>Dick Scobee <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
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<b><u>Space Shuttle Columbia</u></b> - <i>February 1, 2003</i><br />
Damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS) led to structural failure of the shuttle's left wing and the spacecraft ultimately broke apart while returning from their two week mission. </div>
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<li>Rick D. Husband <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
<li>William McCool <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY)</span></i></li>
<li>Michael P. Anderson <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(United States Air Force)</span></i></li>
<li>David M. Brown <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY)</span></i></li>
<li>Kalpana Chawla</li>
<li>Laurel B. Clark <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(NAVY)</span></i></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/21px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png" /></a> Ilan Ramon <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Israeli Air Force) </span></i></li>
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<i>Find out more about the crews, missions and accidents on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569643050865520577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129057090712858132.post-39788430434034911292014-05-25T15:07:00.001-04:002014-05-25T15:33:35.743-04:00Apollo 11's Customs Form From the Moon<div style="border: 2px solid #c7d6d6; padding: 10px;">
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<b>Thought being an Apollo astronaut was all about exotic travels, ticker tape parades and dinners at the White House? Not even the crew from Apollo 11, the first men on the moon, could skip over the red tape of bureaucracy. </b>This customs form, signed by Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins upon their return to Earth, is definitely cooler than any customs form you've filled out. </div>
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<b>Flight Routing</b>: Cape Kennedy --> MOON --> Honolulu, Hawaii</div>
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<b>Cargo Declaration</b>: Moon rock & moon dust samples</div>
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<i>[Side note: It was in fact all done in good humor, probably during their <b>21 days</b> of required quarantine after the mission.]</i> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569643050865520577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129057090712858132.post-81325035226623037292014-05-23T12:07:00.000-04:002014-05-25T14:51:28.426-04:00The "Pad Führer" Mocks Gemini 10 Crew<div style="border: 2px solid #c7d6d6; padding: 10px;">
<b>Guenter Wendt, original pad leader, or "pad führer" as the astronauts jokingly nicknamed him due to his strong German accent & unyielding rules, oversaw spacecrafts on the launch pads and all who had access to ensure safety for all those involved. </b><br />
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<b>To ease tension in the white room, he was well-known for giving gag gifts to the crew before they strapped in for liftoff.</b></div>
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<b><u>Gemini 10</u>: </b>Weeks before liftoff Astronauts Mike Collins and John Young had broken off bits & pieces of the spacecraft. Young had then put in a request for a pair of pliers to aid in the manipulation of some switches aboard the capsule but it was denied. Wendt, of course, had their backs and made sure they indeed did get a pair of pliers... made of Styrofoam... and a little over-sized. <span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">[Referenced in </span><b style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374531943/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0374531943&linkCode=as2&tag=newyorthr-20&linkId=7EFXJHKBJJ33TQCY" target="_blank">Carrying the Fire</a> </b><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">and</span><b style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"> </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FUX7RUI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00FUX7RUI&linkCode=as2&tag=newyorthr-20&linkId=E4RZNQO5JKSNN6Y6" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Two Sides of the Moon</a><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">]</span></div>
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<b><b>The crew often reciprocated his humor though! From the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCKGWK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000FCKGWK&linkCode=as2&tag=newyorthr-20&linkId=6TWSRLILE3QBCIZV" target="_blank">First Man</a>: </b></b></div>
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On July 16, 1969, Armstrong received a crescent moon carved out of Styrofoam from the pad leader, Guenter Wendt, who described it as a key to the Moon. In return, Armstrong gave Wendt a ticket for a "space taxi" "good between two planets"</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendt helps Glenn into a Mercury capsule -- Proof that he <b>always</b> had their backs<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569643050865520577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129057090712858132.post-1096348542326516352014-05-22T22:27:00.002-04:002014-07-28T15:29:49.907-04:00Apollo 1 Prank Became NASA Policy<div style="border: 2px solid #c7d6d6; padding: 10px;">
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<b>From <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/geek-trivia-what-apollo-1-practical-joke-became-unofficial-nasa-policy-after-the-loss-of-that-missions-crew/?pg=2&tag=content%3Bsiu-container" target="_blank">TechRepublic</a>:</b><br />
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Every Apollo astronaut knew the code phrases Navi, Dnoces, and Regor,
which refer to the stars Gamma Cassiopeiae, Iota Ursa Majoris, and Gamma
Velorum, respectively. This trio of stars was (and likely is) used for visual
reference during spaceflight, and was a core component of Apollo mission
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Gus Grissom’s middle name, <i>Ivan</i>, spelled backwards. <i>Dnoces</i> is
the word <i>second</i> spelled backwards, in reference to astronaut
White’s full name, Edward H. White II. <i>Regor</i> is Roger
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<b>What started out as a small prank turned into NASA policy as a tribute to the three brave men who sacrificed their lives for NASA, for the United States and for human space exploration on January 27, 1967. </b><br />
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