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GUEST JONATHAN WARD, BOOK AUTHOR & RENAISSANCE "SPACE MAN" live at 4 pm EDT or anytime on YouTubeASM's friend, world traveler Jonathan Ward, talks about his books on rocket ships, Orbiter Columbia's recovery, astronaut Eileen Collins, and his role as Solar System Ambasador on cruise ships.
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HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY TO SHUTTLE FLIER JIM NEWMAN(Newman with ASM Director MarQ)Four-time Space Shuttle flier and six-time spacewalker Dr. James Hanson “Jim” Newman was born on October 16, 1956, in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now the Federated States of Micronesia), but considers Pacific Grove, California, to be his hometown. (Now there’s a trivia question for you!)Newman was a spacewalker on STS-51, Discovery, in 1993; STS-69, Endeavour, in 1995; STS-88, Endeavour, in December 1998 when he performed three spacewalks matting Unity and Zarya modules of the ISS; and STS-109, Columbia, the fourth service mission of Hubble Space Telescope, performing two more space walks. Newman graduated from La Jolla High School, San Diego, California, in 1974; he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Physics from Dartmouth College in 1978, a Master of Arts degree and a Doctorate in Physics from Rice University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Newman headed NASA’s Human Space Flight program in Russia from late 2002 to 2006. He has logged 43 days in space and 43 hours of spacewalks!A frequent presenter at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex “Astronaut Encounter,” we wish Jim a Happy Birthday!
First Chinese "Taikonaut 23 years agoExciting Space History Day with first "Taikonaut," Cassini launched to Saturn and a 1929 Moon movie that influenced the Space Age.
First Chinese "Taikonaut 23 years ago
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TODAY WE LAUNCH TO SATURN, FIRST CHINESE "TAIKONAUT" AND A 1929 MOON MOVIE live at 4 pm EDT or anytime in YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streamsJoin the Stay Curioius family and enjoy space history like no other place on the internet!
MEDIA BLITZ TODAY FOR SATURDAY AUCTION THAT INCLUDES ARMSTRONG GARMENTSOrlando TV channels WESH 2 and Spectrum 13, Orlando Sentinel and freelancer Julian Leak all interviewed Chuck Jeffrey, owner of Bid Again Auctions and ASM board member.Thanks to Space Coast Office of Tourism for helping with the publicity.#spacecoast #SpaceMemorabilia #spaceprogram#Apollo #nasa
FRAU IM MOND, "WOMAN IN THE MOON," PREMIERS THIS DATE IN 1929 IN BERLIN, GERMANYA classic sci-fi, silent movie about a Moon voyage, this historic film directed by Fritz Lang provided a realistic portrayal of the rollout and launch of a liquid-propellant booster sending a manned expedition to the Moon. Film director Fritz Lang, who became known as the “Master of Darkness,” created the first countdown 92 years ago: “10, 9, 8...3, 2, 1, Blastoff!” Lang's most famous films include the groundbreaking futuristic “Metropolis” (1927) and the influential “M” (1931), a film noir precursor.FROM International Movie Data Base.com: www.imdb.com/title/tt0019901/“This film shows the first countdown to launch of a rocket. Not just the first one in a movie, but the first ever: it was invented as a dramatic device for the movie. Also depicted for the first time are the use of liquid rocket fuel, a rocket with two stages, and zero gravity in space.German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth was hired by the studio to create a flying model of the Friede (the rocket in the movie) to launch from northern Germany on the day of the release as a publicity stunt. However, Oberth pulled out of the deal because the rocket was not working, and undue pressure from the director was causing too many frayed nerves.When the Nazis began working on war rockets, they decided the movie's rockets were too close to the truth. To preserve secrecy, they had the models destroyed and the film withdrawn from release.The Woman in the Moon was restored in 2000 by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung from negatives belonging to the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin.
🚀 Blast Off Into STEAM!Big ideas, hands-on fun, and an out-of-this-world guest speaker are waiting at the American Space Museum! Join us for a FREE STEAM class on Saturday, November 14, from 10 AM–12 PM. Spots are limited to just 15 elementary school students, so register today at (386) 216-7509!! 🌟#STEAM #americanspacemuseum #SpaceEducation #freefamilyfun
Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier: Apollo 7 TVChuck Yeager broke the sound barrier 1947, and Apollo 7's Wally Schirra asks Deke Slayton on live TV "Are you a turtle?"
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SOME CLASSIC SPACE HISTORY TODAY, live at 4 pm EDT or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streamsYeager, Wally on Apollo 7 asking Deke: "Are you a Turtle?" AND what created those amazing Falcon 9 "jellyfish" rocket photos?
FIRST HUMAN TO FLY FASTER THAN SOUND--CHUCK YEAGER--HAPPENED TODAY IN 1947Aviation hero Chuck Yeager placed his name in aviation immortality as the first human to officially break the sound barrier, on October 14, 1947. But the historic event was kept a military secret for 8 months. And Yeager did it with two broken ribs!Yeager’s orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 is one of the most iconic aircraft in history. The Army test pilot named his rocket plane after his wife, Glennis.Two days before making history, Yeager and wife Glennis went horseback riding nar Muroc Army Air Field in California. While racing, Yeager fell off the horse cracking two ribs on his right side. He hid the injury from flight surgeons, and had a local civilian doctor tape up his ribs. Becaus of the injury, he couldn't close the hatch, so a fellow pilot sawed off a piece of broom handle, with a hook to get leverage with his right hand and lock the hatch. Yeager died in December 2020 at age 97. The 40-year-old flew the experimental Bell X-1, breaking the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" at Mach 1.05 at an altitude of 45,000 feet (13,700 m)] over the Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert. The success of the mission was not announced to the public until June 1948.The speed of sound is about 760 mph at sea level, or 1,100 feet per second (340 meters per second). The Bell X-1 is a rocket engine–powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft.Here’s the Yeager website: www.chuckyeager.com/#chuckyeager #speedofsound #aviationrecords
HAPPY 48th BIRTHDAY TO ASTRONAUT KATE RUBINSKathleen Hallisey Rubins was born Oct. 14, 1978 in Farmington, Connecticut, and raised in Napa, California. The Artemis astronaut has spent her 38th and 42nd birthdays in space, accumulating 300 days on Expeditions 48/49 and Expedition 63/64, the fourth most days in space by a female. She became the 60th woman in space when she launched on Soyuz MS-01 in July 2016. Last year on her 42nd birthday, Oct. 14, 2020, she rode Soyuz MS-17 to the ISS. She had performed four space walks for 26 hours. Rubins was on the ISS at the time of the 2020 United States Presidential election and cast her absentee ballot from the station. (photo is Kate next to ISS “Voting Booth.”)Rubins was the first person to sequence DNA in space. You may be curious about her Doctorate thesis at Stanford University: “A Genome-Wide Analysis of the Host and Viral Responses during Poxvirus Infection.” Rubin is currently a professor of microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh and the inaugural director of the Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine at the university. Kate Rubins is a world-renowned expert in molecular and cellular biology for use in low-Earth orbit and lowresource environments. Rubins was inspired by learning the constellations with her dad and going to local “star-gazing” gatherings and science museums as early as she could remember as a young child. She had always been fascinated with science and exploring the world.www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/rubins-k.pdf#astronautbirthdays #womenastronauts #molecularbiology #nasaastronauts
WHAT CAUSES THE FALCON 9 "JELLYFISH" THAT STUNNED EARLY RISERS ON SPACE COAST TUESDAY(Photos by Steve Rismiller, Mims, Florida)No doubt you've seen the incredible photos, like these, of the Falcon 9 rocket launch Tuesday in the morning twilight that created an active and vibrant plume of exhaust nicknamed "Space Jellyfish."But what caused this effect? Three perfectly timed factors are involved.The "space jellyfish" is an atmospheric optical phenomenon caused when sunlight over the pre-dawn horizon illulminates the expanding exhaust plume of a rocket at high altitudes, while the ground below remains dark. The three factors that have to exist to see this amazing celestial display: 1) Twilight rocket launch, shortly before or after sunrise2) High-altitude rocket plume expansion, hot exhaust gases meeting cold air creates a broad, bulbous shape3) Ice crystal refraction, as the water vapor and carbon dioxide in a rocket's exhaust freezes into tiny ice crystals, acting like prisms for sunlight, creating color and "tentacles" of the jellyfish.
"Hellish" Venus says Goodbye to the nightEarth's twin in size, but scorched with 900-degree F. surface and a global, toxic cloud layer, leaves our night sky, soon to be seen by early morning risers.
"Hellish" Venus says Goodbye to the night
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VENUS DISAPPEARS IN THE NIGHT, TO LATER APPEAR IN THE MORNING SKY live at 4 pm or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streamsThe third brightest object in the sky (behind the Sun and Moon) makes a final bow in our evening skies...and here is the facts about Earth's "Hellish" twin.
SPACEX FALCON 9 "JELLYFISH" THIS MORNINGASM' Marty Winkel captured the beautiful exhaust of the Tuesday pre-dawn launch of a resupply ship to the International Space Station. Marty was in Titusville, and early risers up America's East Coast captured the spectacle-- and many other local residents were awakened to the double boom of the returning first stage Falcon 9 rocket to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base.
Thank you Canaveral Tours for a terrific tour!𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹!We enjoyed showing them around, sharing stories, learning from people who have their own connections to the space program.Thank you for the docents and volunteers for spending the day with us. We hope you had a wonderful time!𝗪𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻.
ASM CHARITY AUCTION #45 HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERY SPACE LOVER! spacewalkoffame.org/event/charity-memorabilia-auction-45Here's just a sample of the 350+ lots!
SATURDAY'S MEMORABILIA AUCTION FEATURES ARMSTRONG GARMENT AND MUCH MORE spacewalkoffame.org/event/charity-memorabilia-auction-45
First Two 3-Man Crews CelebratedRussia's Voskhod 1 in 1964 and America's Apollo 7 in 1968 were their nations first time orbiting three men in a spacecraft.
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