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NFL FOOTBALL FLY OVER IN ATLANTA INCLUDED T-38 (AND A MOON ROCK IN ATLANTA STADIUM FOR FANS TO SEE!) www.collectspace.com/news/news-091326a-nasa-nfl-innovation-tour-flyover.html NASA traded space for sports history on Sunday (Sept. 13), in a high-profile demonstration of its aeronautics and space capabilities.The agency deployed two of its astronaut training jets for the first-ever flyover of a National Football League (NFL) game. The performance kicked off the action as the Pittsburgh Steelers then took on the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium."This is the first season NASA is taking part in flyovers at NFL games, bringing the excitement of America's space program directly to fans across the country," said Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator, who was in Pittsburgh to see the first flyover firsthand."We're returning to the moon, building a Moon Base, advancing fission-powered spacecraft and pushing the boundaries in aeronautics, science and discovery. Achieving those ambitions will take the very best of America and partnering with the NFL gives us an incredible platform to inspire the next generation to look up and imagine the possibilities," said Isaacman in a statement about the new "NFL Inspiration Tour."At the game, Art Rooney II, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, presented Isaacman and flight director Anthony Vareha ("Enterprise Flight") a "Terrible Towel" featuring the NASA insignia. Vareha is originally from Monroeville, near Pittsburgh.Additional flyovers are scheduled for the Baltimore Ravens versus New Orleans Saints game at M&T Bank Stadium in Maryland on Sunday, Sept. 20; the Philadelphia Eagles versus Los Angeles Rams game at Lincoln Financial Field in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Oct. 4; and the New York Jets versus Cleveland Browns game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, Oct. 11.More dates may be added to the tour, according to NASA.The aircraft used in the flyover may change with each game. NASA said that the flights will showcase its fleet of aircraft, which are used for "high-speed testing, high-altitude research, astronaut training and more."
NASA kicks off 'NFL Inspiration Tour' with first astronaut jets flyover
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NASA traded space for sports history in a high-profile demonstration of its aeronautics and space capabilities. The agency deployed two of its astronaut training jets for its first-ever formation flyo...
Thomas Smith, Ghost Writer & ASM's ghostly "orb"Thomas Smith is an award-winning writer in many genres, but his book, "Ghosts of Florida's Atlantic Coast" includes American Space Museum!
Thomas Smith, Ghost Writer & ASM's ghostly "orb"
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LEARN ABOUT THE "GHOST" IN OUR MUSEUM! live at 4 pm EDT or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streamsThomas Smith is a prolific writer who loves the ghost stories of Florida--and we have a good one!
HAPPY 61st BIRTHDAY TO BOBBY SATCHER, SHUTTLE SPACEWALKERRobert Lee “Bobby” Satcher Jr. was born Sept. 22, 1965 in Hampton, Virginia and became the first orthopedic surgeon in space on STS-129 in November 2000. Satcher participated in 2 spacewalks during STS-129, accumulating 12hrs 19min of EVA time. He was also the first Black male astronaut and physician to act as the crew's medical doctor to the International Space Station on the STS-129 NASA Space Shuttle mission. During this mission, Satcher repaired ISS exterior robotic arms of the ISS and installed an antenna to improve satellite communication and file updates on Twitter. During the mission, he served as a mission specialist studying the influence of space on the immune system, specifically the effects of zero gravity on muscles and bone density. Satcher holds two doctorates: Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.D. from Harvard University; and he has received numerous awards and honors as a surgeon and engineer.Satcher graduated from Denmark-Olar High School in Denmark, South Carolina. Prior to being accepted into the astronaut program by NASA, Satcher was the Assistant Professor at The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2001. Satcher also held appointments as an Attending Physician in Orthopaedic Surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in Musculoskeletal Oncology; and an Adjunct Appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University School of EngineeringWhen the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Satcher joined The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the Department of Orthopaedic Oncology.Satcher names Ronald E. McNair PhD '76, a fellow MIT alumni, who had lost his life in the 1986 Challenger accident as an inspiration.Satcher's bio: www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dr-robert-satcher-jr
GOODBYE SUMMER, HELLO AUTUMN (FOR EARTHLINGS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE!)Equal day and equal night--the Autumnal Equinox
GOODBY SUMMER, HELLO AUTUMN!Goodbye summer, hello fall. The autumn equinox arrives today exactly at 8:04 pm EDT, September 22, the moment when day and night land are at almost exactly equal length. Nights start getting longer. We see it as a small reminder that we're all riding on a planet through space, tilted 23.5 degrees off straight up and down, the reason for the seasons! Cooler weather makes it a perfect season to explore indoors with us, and yes, we're open on Sundays from 1 to 5. Come spend an afternoon with the consoles, suits, and stories that put Titusville on the map. Hours and directions are at spacewalkoffame.org/visitArtwork: "Gemini IV" by Chris Calle
Russia's piece of the Moon & Space HistoryHost MarQ focuses on Space History, with Russia's Luna 16 robot bringing back three ounces of the Moon, and spacecraft Galileo ends its Jupiter mission.
Russia's piece of the Moon & Space History
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SPACE HISTORY AND CURRENT EVENTS TODAY 4 PM LIVE or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streamsHost MarQ and co-producer Marty Winkel start another week of "bridging the space between us."
HAPPY 71stBIRTHDAY TO RICK HIEB, SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT SPACEWALKERRichard James Hieb was born Sept. 21, 1955 in Jamestown, North Dakota. Rick has 31 days in space, and three spacewalks totaling 20-plus hours--which included the only ever three-person Extravehicular Activity (EVA). He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49 (three EVA’s including the triple-person capturing a communications satellite) and was a payload commander on STS-65. After leaving NASA he worked at AlliedSignal and Orbital before spending 14 years as an executive at Lockheed Martin. He is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department.Hieb received a bachelor of arts degree in math and physics from Northwest Nazarene College in 1977. He went on to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979 with a master of science degree in aerospace engineering.During the STS-49 mission in May 1992, Hieb along with astronaut Pierre Thuot, performed three spacewalks which resulted in the capture and repair of the stranded Intelsat VI F3 communications satellite. The third spacewalk, which also included astronaut Tom Akers, was the first ever (and to date only) three-person spacewalk. This 8 hour and 29 minute spacewalk, the longest in history, broke a twenty-year-old record that was held by Apollo 17 astronauts. The STS-49 record endured for 9 years until being surpassed by James Voss and Susan Helms on the International Space Station, and now stands in second place for EVA duration.
HAPPY 61st BIRTHDAY TO NASA ASTRONAUT "PIRATE" SUNI WILLIAMS, THREE MISSIONS 609 DAYS ON ISS NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Lynn (Pandya) Williams was born Sept. 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio and raised in Needham, Massachusetts. She has 609 days in space for 12th all time, and is the fourth most experienced spacewalker with nine extravehicular activities to her credit. Her birthday, Sept. 19th, is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day, " so when in space, Suni did...as the photos show!She has three, long-duration missons on the International Space Station, and has flown there on a U.S. Space Shuttle, a Russian Soyuz and a Boeing Starliner--famously returning to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon. She retired from NASA in 2026 after 27 year of service. Suni and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore launched in June 2024 to test the Boeing Starliner on its maiden voyage of 8 days to the ISS, and the drama of thruster problems played out in the news as they returned safely in a SpaceX Crew Dragon in March 2025, 9 months later than planned. Suni is a United States Navy officer of Indo-Slovenian descent. She was a US Navy test pilot. She flew to orbit on STS-116 (2006) as a member of Expedition 14 and 15. In 2012 she served flew on Soyuz TMA-05M was commander of Expedition 33. The Starliner flight launched in 2024. She has made nine spacewalks totaling 62 hours , putting Williams in No. 9 on the list.On April 15, 2007, she "ran" in the Boston Marathon, a first from space, running on the ISS treadmill for 4 hours, 24 minutes. Williams' sister, Dina Pandya, and fellow astronaut Karen L. Nyberg ran the marathon on Earth, and Williams received updates on their progress from Mission Control. In 2008, Williams participated in the Boston Marathon again, this time on Earth.Williams has been married to Michael J. Williams, a federal marshal in Texas, for more than 20 years, and both flew helicopters early in their careers. Suni and Michael enjoy hanging out with their dogs, working out, working on houses, working on cars, flying airplanes, hiking and camping.Suni's NASA bio: www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/williams-sl.pdf
NASA SPACEFLIGHT HOUSTON HEADQUARTERS 65 YEARS OLD TODAY!from our partners at NASA Manned Space FB
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VETERINARIAN IN SPACE ON FOUR SHUTTLES, RICHARD LINNEHAN IS 69 TODAYHappy Birthday, Richard Linnehan, a four-time Shuttle astronaut who was born September 19, 1957, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Richard was raised by his paternal grandparents, Henry and Mae Linnehan in Hudson and Pelham, New Hampshire.Linnehan has more than 59 days and six spacewalks totaling 42 hours to his credit, Not bad for a graduate The Ohio State University Veterinary School in 1985. He also has a Master’s Degree from Harvard in public administration. Linnehan’s Shuttle missions included: three times in Orbiter Columbia in STS-78 in 1996; STS-90, Neurolab in 1998; and STS-109, Hubble Service Mission 4 in 2002; and and once in Endeavour, STS-123 , an ISS hardhat mission in 2008. As of 2020, Linnehan is a “management astronaut” and no longer eligible for flight assignment. He is involved in animal care and use on space missions, among other duties. Linnehan’s bio: www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/linnehan_richard.pdf?emrc=c70ba5
NASA TEST ORBITER "ENTERPRISE" SOARS ON WITH "STAR TREK" 50 YEARS AFTER ROLLOUTCollectSpace.com www.collectspace.com/news/news-091726a-nasa-space-shuttle-enterprise-star-trek.htmlWhen thousands of Star Trek fans were successful in their write-in campaign to name NASA's first space shuttle after their favorite starship, the effort not only became space history, but added to the timeline of the fictional universe they set out to honor."Star Trek" had been off the air for seven years when Orbiter Vehicle (OV)-101 rolled out of a southern California manufacturing plant with "Enterprise" printed on its side. Among the guests invited to see the rollout were the "crew" of the fictional starship USS Enterprise, together with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.The reveal that day — 50 years ago Thursday (Sept. 17) — was accompanied by an appropriate musical score."What a great day that was in 1976," said Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek's Spock, recalling in 2012 the debut of the space shuttle Enterprise at the orbiter's arrival in New York to go on display at the Intrepid Museum. "The hangar doors opened, this wonderful ship came rolling out and the Air Force band played the theme from 'Star Trek.'""It was a great day for America and a great day for us being connected to that history," Nimoy said. "We were very grateful."To show that gratitude (again at the original suggestion of some of the show's fans), when the USS Enterprise was next seen in the 1979 feature film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," the space shuttle was acknowledged among "all these ships ... named Enterprise." OV-101 is depicted among a gallery of backlit illustrations inside the recreation deck of the refit starship.A similar nod to the prototype winged spacecraft appears even earlier in the Star Trek timeline, although in real life it premiered with the first episode of the series "Enterprise" in 2001. Aboard the NX-01 Enterprise, hanging in Captain Jonathan Archer's ready room, is a black-and-white drawing of the shuttle.
NASA shuttle Enterprise soars on with Star Trek 50 years after rollout
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When thousands of Star Trek fans were successful in their write-in campaign to name NASA's first space shuttle after their favorite starship, the effort not only became space history, but added to the...
Farrah Fawcett "Satellite" explodes & moreStargazer MarQ looks at the end of Summer, a famous Triangle of stars, and Farrah Fawcett satellite explodes!
Farrah Fawcett "Satellite" explodes & more
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WHAT'S ACTRESS FARRAH FAWCETT HAVE TO DO WITH SPACE? Find out Live Today at 4 pm EDT or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streams
THANK YOU SANDY MICHELSON, ASM SUPPORTER AND ZONTA OF MELBOURNE CATALYSTEvery vibrant community needs a catalyst, and Sandy Michelson is the one for Zonta of Melbourne. And we are proud to say Sandy is a big financial supporter of ASM, personally and through Zonta. Zonta around the world addresses women's rights, and develops empowerment and self-esteem through their programs.From Zonta of Melbourne Facebook: "Sandy excels at bringing people together and motivating them to serve – whether that means empowering individuals to step up or supporting those in need. Sandy embodies the truth that while we cannot save the world, we can absolutely transform our corner of it". The Zonta Club of Melbourne is a service organization of talented women and men with diverse skills working together to empower women and girls through hands-on assistance, advocacy, and funding locally, regionally and around the world through Zonta International.Come and say “hi” to Sandy and support the Zonta Club of Melbourne’s Fundraising event at Hemingway’s Tavern on Sept. 30th from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Tickets are $20.00 and available on Hemingway's Tavern website under Events - Music in the Courtyard.Hope to see you there!Zonta of Melbourne website: zontaspacecoast.org/Zonta of Melbourne Facebook: www.facebook.com/ZontaClubofMelbourneZonta Club of MelbournePO Box 417Melbourne, FL 32902-0417ZontaClub.Melbourne.FL@gmail.com#zontainternational #zontamelbourne #empowerwomen
HAPPY 72nd BIRTHDAY TO TAKAO DOI, 1st JAPAN SPACEWALKERA veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions and 31 days in space, we wish a happy birthday to Dr. Takao Doi, born 72 years ago on Sept. 18, 1954 in today in Tokyo, Japan. . Takao Doi was on STS-87 in November 1997 as a mission specialists for the 15 day mission that included the first spacewalk from Orbiter Columbia (its 24th flight), and the first spacewalk of a Japanese citizen. (ASM friend Winston Scott spacewalked with Doi). Doi visited the International Space Station in March 2008 as a member of the STS-123 crew. STS-123 delivered the first module of the Japanese laboratory, Kibō, and the Canadian Dextre robot to the space station. During this mission, he became the first person to throw a boomerang in space that had been specifically designed for use in microgravity during spaceflightDoi retired from astronaut duty and now works as the chief of Space Applications Section of United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, starting in September 2009.In April 2016, he became a professor at the Unit of Synergetic Studies for Space of Kyoto University.Doi holds a doctorate from the University of Tokyo in aerospace engineering, and has studied and published in the fields of propulsion systems, and microgravity technology. He researched at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and was selected by NASDA as an astronaut candidate in 1985 for the Japanese manned space program while also conducting research in the United States at NASA's Lewis Research Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder.As an avid amateur astronomer, he discovered supernovae SN 2002gw and SN 2007aa in galaxies far, far away. Doi’s profile: iss.jaxa.jp/shuttle/flight/sts87/sts87doimspro_e.html
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