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Topic: Photo of the week 495 (April 19, 2014)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-19-2014 01:46 AM
   
 STS-2 crewmen Joe Engle (right) and Dick Truly receive the 'key to Columbia' during the STS-1 post flight press conference in Houston on April 23, 1981. The second flight of the reusable spaceship would take place in November. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 04-19-2014 09:25 AM
Two more brave men. Thanks Ed. |
noroxine
Member Posts: 116
From:
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 04-19-2014 10:06 AM
I'm happy to have only my car since the space shuttle key is too big for my pocket  Really great history time! |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-19-2014 11:45 PM
An under-appreciated milestone...the first men to take a spacecraft back up the hill. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 04-21-2014 11:09 AM
And Engle, by virtue of his experience with the X-15, became the only shuttle astronaut to manually control an orbiter throughout reentry and landing. Quite an achievement. Another distinction is that this was the last 'all-rookie crew' in NASA spaceflight, the agency wanting at least one veteran flyer in a crew. Of course, Engle earned his USAF astronaut wings in the X-15 but was still considered a 'rookie' NASA astronaut. |
Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 244
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 04-22-2014 04:04 AM
My most favourite mission. The sense of anticipation the second time around was palpable after the success of STS 1. And the best mission decal of the entire Shuttle program, in my view. Oh, the disappointment when it became a minimum mission duration from 5 days to 2.I remember, in the days before the Internet, being solely reliant on newspapers for coverage of the missions. I distinctly recall this photograph was published in our local newspaper: I still have the cut-out a scrapbook somewhere. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-23-2014 12:27 PM
Huge lapels! |
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