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Apollo 12 and Return the Moon in 1969![]()
Host MarQ remembers Apollo 12 and tthe special all-Navy crew who returned America to the Moon for the second time in 1969, "double-down" on President Kennedy's challenge..
Apollo 12 and Return the Moon in 1969
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Host MarQ remembers Apollo 12 and tthe special all-Navy crew who returned America to the Moon for the second time in 1969, "double-down" on President Kennedy...
APOLLO 12 55 YEARS LATER ON STAY CURIOUS, TODAY LIVE AT 4 PM ON YouTube or anytime
APOLLO 12 REMEMBERED 55 YEARS AGO ON STAY CURIOUS, TODAY 4 PM LIVE or Anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/c/AmericanSpaceMuseum![]()
From SEC to AUX and the pinpoint landing next to the Surveyor spacecraft, honor the SECOND lunar landing before the end of the decade to "double-down" on President Kennedy's challenge.
FIVE-TIME SPACEMAN KEN BOWERSOX IS 68 TODAY![]()
Born Kenneth Duane Bowersox on November 14, 1956, in Portsmouth, Virginia, "Sox" considers Bedford, Indiana, to be his hometown. ![]()
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A five-flight veteran, Bowersox logged over 211 days in space including 2 EVAs totaling 13 hours and 17 minutes. He was the pilot on STS-50 (1992) and STS-61 (1993, Hubble repair), spacecraft commander on STS-73 (1995) and STS-82 (1997 Hubble maintenance)![]()
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Bowersox has two EVAs outside the Shuttle for more than 13 hours. He served as Expedition-6 Crew Commander for 5-1/2 months aboard the International Space Station (2002-2003). Bowersox retired from NASA and the U.S. Navy in December 2006.![]()
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When he launched on STS-73 at the age of 38 years and 11 months, he became the youngest person to command a Space Shuttle.![]()
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He received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1978, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in 1979.![]()
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Bowersox was named the NASA associate administrator of the Space Operations Mission Directorate. From 2009-2011 "Sox" was the SpaceX vice president of Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance. In May 2023,![]()
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He was the associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate. Before being appointed to that position, Bowersox served as deputy associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate. Bowersox also served as the Interim Chair of the NASA Advisory Council from June 2016 to January 2017![]()
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NASA bio: www.nasa.gov/people/kenneth-bowersox/
HAPPY 91st BIRTHDAY FRED HAISE, APOLLO 13 ICON!![]()
(Photo of MarQ with "Freddo" at Grumman Reunion 2022)![]()
Happy 91st Birthday to astronaut Fred Haise, born Nov. 14, 1933 in Biloxi, Mississippi.![]()
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Haise is a great friend of The American Space Museum as our President Emeritus and good friend of ASM founder and "godfather" Charlie Mars, a retired NASA manager in Apollo. "Freddo" helped raise money to build the Apollo and Shuttle monuments 10 years ago at Space View Park in Downtown Titusville. ![]()
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Haise's 2023 book, "Never Panic Early" is his personal and illuminating memoir of his career and the Apollo 13 "successful failure" aborted Moon landing in April 1970. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, Haise takes an introspective look at the thrills and triumphs, regrets and disappointments, and lessons that defined his career, including his years as a military fighter pilot and his successful 20-year NASA career that would have made him the sixth man on the moon had Apollo 13 gone right.![]()
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Haise, a Marine, was selected for the 1966 Group 5 Class of astronauts. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970 and would have been Commander for the canceled Apollo 19 Moon landing mission.![]()
Haise was also Commander for the Shuttle Enterprise and the important “Approach and Landing Test” in 1977.![]()
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Haise has helped create the Infinity Science Center on the Louisiana/Mississippi border in Pearlington, Mississipppi on the Louisiana border of Interstate-10.![]()
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Here is his NASA BIO: www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/haise_fred.pdf
UAP Congress Hearing & Gemini Recap![]()
Host MarQ reviews the latest UAP (UFO) Congressional hearing Nov. 13th, AND the Gemini program is recapped with the help of Stay Curious viewer Steve Jochum.
UAP Congress Hearing & Gemini Recap
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Host MarQ reviews the latest UAP (UFO) Congressional hearing Nov. 13th, AND the Gemini program is recapped with the help of Stay Curious viewer Steve Jochum.
CONGRESSIONAL "UAP" HEARING and GEMINI PROGRAM RECAP TO STAY CURIOUS TODAY 4 PM LIVE or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/c/AmericanSpaceMuseum![]()
Host MarQ recaps what he watched on the UAP hearing, and faithful watcher Steve Jochums sent us a recap of Gemini's 10 historic mission.
LIVE HEARING ON UAPs underway at NOON EDT WEDNESDAY NOV 13, 2024 TESTIMONY CENTERING ON TRANSPARENCY TO AMERICAN PUBLIC
Live: Congress holds a hearing on UAPs, aka UFOs
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Watch live: Congress holds a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), aka UFOs, with a witness list that includes a former NASA administrator, Mic...
Veterans Day celebrates military astronauts![]()
Stay Curious with two U.S. Space Force recruiters, Technical Seargeants Jacob Salwey and Patrick Eglinton as they share a career in America's newest military branch
Veterans Day celebrates military astronauts
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Stay Curious with two U.S. Space Force recruiters, Technical Seargeants Jacob Salwey and Patrick Eglinton as they share a career in America's newest military...
Veterans Day celebrates military astronauts![]()
Stay Curious with two U.S. Space Force recruiters, Technical Seargeants Jacob Salwey and Patrick Eglinton as they share a career in America's newest military branch
Veterans Day celebrates military astronauts
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Stay Curious with two U.S. Space Force recruiters, Technical Seargeants Jacob Salwey and Patrick Eglinton as they share a career in America's newest military...
SPACE FORCE RECRUITERS SHARE THEIR CAREER AND INSIGHT TO AMERICA'S NEWEST MILITARY BRANCH Live at 4 pm or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/c/AmericanSpaceMuseum
WHICH ONE IS STS-1 AND STS-2? AND HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?![]()
Left on is? Right on is? Why?
FIRST REUSABLE SPACESHIP LAUNCHED TODAY IN 1981—Seven months to the day after it was launched for the first time in Earth orbit, Space Shuttle Columbia made its second test flight with Commander Joe Engle and Pilot Richard Truly (on his birthday) both making their first spaceflight.![]()
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The Nov. 12, 1981 liftoff of Columbia and the “Shuttle Stack” was the second and last one with a white External Tank. Engle and Truly, both deceased, were one of two astronaut teams who flew the important glider tests during the 1977 Approach and Landing Tests at Edward Air Force Base in California. ![]()
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Orbiter Columbia became the first reusable crewed spaceship, having flown for for a few day in April 1981 with John Young and Bob Crippen. STS-2 was a little more than 2 days in space.![]()
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Truly was born on Nov. 12, STS-2 launch day was his 44th birthday--what a candle on his cake! He also flew again on STS-8, and became NASA Administrator in 1989.![]()
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The planned five-day mission was cut nearly three days due to failure of one of three fuel cells that produce electricity and drinking water, but 90 percent of mission objectives achieved, including first time remote manipulator system tests. Mission scientists were satisfied with data received from Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-1 (OSTA-1) Earth observation experiments mounted on Spacelab pallet in payload bay.![]()
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Engle, who was bumped by astronaut/geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt on the final Apollo 17 moon landing, got his chance to “return” to space, becoming the only human so far to fly to space and return in two different vehicles—the X-15 and Shuttle. He also flew the Shuttle Enterprise's Approach and Landing Test (ALT) missions flown from a customized 747 jetliner, and went back to space with STS-51-I.![]()
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Both Truly and Engle are immortalized with their handprints in bronze in the American Space Museum. ![]()
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NASA STS-2: www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-2/
Veterans Day celebrates military astronauts![]()
Veterans Day with military astronauts, Gemini XII ends the program, STS-5 makes Shuttle operational and Marty's Trivia Question as Host MarQ bridges the space between us
VETERAN'S DAY STAY CURIOUS 4 PM EDT ON YouTube or anytime![]()
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Host MarQ salutes active and veteran military astronauts, and learn where the Marines "Oorah!" originated!
5TH SHUTTLE COLUMBIA LAUNCH TODAY IN 1982 WAS 1ST OPERATIONAL MISSION ![]()
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Forty-two years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on schedule from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 7:19 am EST, on Nov. 11, 1982. ![]()
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This historic flight carried a crew of four – the largest spacecraft crew up to that time – and the first two commercial communications satellites to be flown aboard a Shuttle.![]()
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Vance Brand, age 93 today, was commander, having previously flown on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 1975. A friend of ASM, Brand would also command STS-41-B in 1984 and STs-35 in 1990. ![]()
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The other STS-5 astronauts, all making their first flight, were pilot Robert Overmyer (deceased, first of two spaceflights), and mission specialists Joseph Allen, 87, (1st of two), and Bill Lenoir, deceased (his only spaceflight). ![]()
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The commercial satellites were deployed successfully and subsequently propelled into their operational geosynchronous orbits by McDonnell Douglas PAM-D kick-motors.![]()
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The first scheduled spacewalk of the shuttle program was canceled due to a malfunction of the space suit. Lenoir and Allen were to perform a spacewalk, the first of the Space Shuttle program, to test newly developed space suits. ![]()
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The space suits were developed as cheaper and less complicated alternatives to the Apollo versions. A poorly functioning oxygen regulator in Lenoir's suit and a broken recirculation fan in Allen's caused them to cancel the extravehicular activity (EVA) entirely. It was the first time in the history of the space program that an EVA had been canceled due to space suit issues.![]()
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The Space Shuttle was formally declared "operational" after STS-4. ![]()
STS-5 safely landed Nov. 16, 1982, completing most of its mission goals. ![]()
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However, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) in 2004 asserted that the Orbiter should never have been considered operational and that, while not intrinsically unsafe, it was in fact an experimental vehicle. ![]()
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The CAIB's rationale was that civilian and military aircraft that are considered operational must have been tested and proven over thousands of safe flights in their final operational configurations, whereas the Shuttle had conducted only 100 or so flights, with continuous modification. NASA operated the Space Shuttle as an experimental vehicle for the remainder of the program![]()
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www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-5/
GEMINI XII LAUNCHED, ENDED PROGRAM 58 YEARS AGO TODAY--Both Gemini XII commander Jim Lovell and pilot/spacewalker Buzz Aldrin might be reminiscing today about their 4-day trip to space 58 years ago in the last of 10, two-man Gemini space flights that set the stage for the Apollo Moon landings. ![]()
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On Nov. 11. 1966 at 4:46 pm EST, Lovell, now age 96 and a veteran of the 14-day Gemini 7 mission 11-months earlier, and rookie Buzz Aldrin, who is 94 were launched on a Titan II rocket aimed at chasing down a target Agena rocket, launched on an Atlas rocket 90 minutes earlier. ![]()
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The four-day mission had goals of perfecting the Moon spacesuit and spacewalking techniques by Aldrin, and Lovell docking and rendezvousing with the Agena rocket as if they were orbiting the Moon. This successful mission closed the chapter on 10, 2-man Gemini missions launched nearly every other month beginning in March 1965. ![]()
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After this mission, NASA moved to the three-man Apollo project and all its challenges. ![]()
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The bronzed hands of the Gemini astronauts (and relief portraits of Pete Conrad, Ed White and Gus Grissom) line the sidewalk on “II” pedestals, with marble pavers on the ground marking the dates of Gemini astronauts and their mission. Beneath the Gemini “II” symbol are names of contract workers etched in marble who worked on the Gemini Project. ![]()
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Lovell and Aldrin of course played important roles in the Apollo missions to the Moon. Aldrin was the pilot of Apollo 11 and the first, historic Moon landing in July, 1969, with commander Neil Armstrong, deceased. And Lovell orbited the Moon in Apollo 8 with two others in December 1968, and was the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, that looped around the Moon after a near-fatal accident on-board the Command Module. ![]()
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www.nasa.gov/mission/gemini-xii/
U.S. VETERANS FREE ALL MONTH OF NOVEMBER AT ASM ![]()
In honor of Veterans Day Monday Nov. 11, the American Space Museumm is thanking veterans, active duty, retired, and reserve military for their service to the United States.![]()
We are open Monday-Saturday, 10 am-5pm EST. Regular admission is $10 adults, $8 veterans and military, $5 age 13-17, kids age 12 and under FREE!
SATURN NEXT TO MOON TONIGHT--AND IT GETS "SWALLOWED UP" IN OCCULTATION FOR SOUTH FLORIDA & CENTRAL AMERICA AT 9:26 PM EST![]()
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Space Coast stargazers are in for a real treat--the Moon passes in front of Saturn tonight in an "occultation" that begins after 9:35 pm EST at Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Orlando. Use binoculars to watch, or any telescope. Saturn's rings are not visible to the naked eye, and the planet looks like a bright, yellowish "star."![]()
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TIMES ARE: DISAPPEAR REAPPEAR![]()
Cocoa Beach 9:35 p.m. 9:57 p.m.![]()
Melbourne 9:36 p.m. 9:58 p.m.![]()
Orlando 9:43 p.m. 9:50 p.m.![]()
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The waxing gibbous Moon shines quite near Saturn this evening for all America. The rings are nearly edge-on, looking like a spike through the butterscotch-hued globe. Occultations of the Moon and Saturn are not rare, and can occur once or twice a year somewhere around the world. The Moon also passes in front of other planets, like Jupiter and Mars, as they all travel in the celestial "highway" of the ecliptic. ![]()
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The Moon will occult Saturn for southern Florida, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of South America.![]()
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Anywhere south of a 30 mile (50 km) wide path running from Bradenton on Florida's west coast, to New Smyrna Beach on the east coast will see an occultation. Areas north of that path will see the moon closely miss Saturn. Be watching around 9:20 pm for the anticipated 9:26 pm disapearance in the dark, lunar limb. Reappearance of Saturn will be on the bright side at around 10:05 pm EST. ![]()
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While Floridians will see the event in a nighttime sky, Saturn dramatically disappears behind the moon's dark limb but will reappear from behind the moon's brightly illuminated limb, so that in order to see Saturn's emergence, a telescope or at the very least a good pair of binoculars are a necessity. Be sure to heck out our guides on our best telescopes for beginners or the best binoculars to find the right gear for you. ![]()
OTHER FLORIDA TIMES: ![]()
Miami 9:26 p.m. -- 10:04 p.m.![]()
Ft. Lauderdale 9:26 p.m. -- 10:06 p.m.![]()
Boca Raton 9:27 p.m. -- 10:06 p.m.![]()
W. Palm Beach 9:28 p.m. -- 10:05 p.m.![]()
Fort Myers 9:31 p.m. -- 9:58 p.m.![]()
Vero Beach 9:33 p.m. -- 10:01 p.m.