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OV-104 landing in ISS IV

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Shuttle Atlantis over the Bahamas. 🚀

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Space Shuttles

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Two F-16 Falcons escorting Space Shuttle Discovery on re-entry.

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Chris Hadfield/2003

Image credit : NASA

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The First and the Last

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Waiting to lift off on a near 8-day mission in space for Gemini 5. The Titan II rocket sits upon the launch pad at Cape Kennedy waiting for things to proceed. Gordon Cooper (2nd & last spaceflight) & Pete Conrad (rookie spaceflight) flew the 1965 mission which broke the Soviet’s Vostok 5 record for crewed space duration (4 days & 23 hours) set 2 years earlier. G5 marked the 1st time an American crewed mission held such a record (7 days & 23 hours). Their flight could have lasted 1 day longer but the approach Hurricane Betsy changed plans!

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Steel on the moon. The Lunar plaques measure 9 inches x 7 & 5⁄8 & were attached to ladders on the descent stages of the Lunar Modules flown on Apollo 11-17. All plaques have a picture of the 2 hemispheres of Earth except Apollo 12! Apollo 17's plaque has the lunar globe in addition to Earth inscribed on it. Only Apollo 13’s plaque was not left on the moon as the mission had to be aborted. 2 plaques were made for that 1970 mission due to a last minute crew change from astronaut Ken Mattingly to Jack Swigert.