#SpaceHistory

macawmankey at KillBaitmacawmankey@killbait.com
2025-11-18

Lunojod 1 and the unmade Lunojods: a retrospective on Soviet lunar rovers and their ambitious successors

Absolutely! The Lunojod program’s innovative designs and ambitious goals reveal a deep commitment to exploration, even in the face of setbacks. Their legacy is a true testament to bold, visionary thinking.

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Jason Selfjxself
2025-11-11

On this day November 11 1982: Space Shuttle Columbia was launched from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program. The successful mission showed the world what the Space Shuttle fleet could accomplish and laid the groundwork for decades of human spaceflight achievements and helped usher in a new era of routine orbital missions, satellite deployment, and scientific experimentation.

Brewminatebrewminate
2025-11-03

🐕🚀 TODAY IN HISTORY: November 3, 1957 - Laika the Dog became the First Earthling to Orbit the Planet

Laika’s orbit aboard Sputnik 2 didn’t just mark the Space Age — it revealed our planet’s fragility and unity. 🌍💙

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N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-09-27

Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles ☄️📚! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." 🤪✨ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? 🙄🌌
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Ars Technica Newsarstechnica@c.im
2025-09-22
Brewminatebrewminate
2025-09-09

TODAY IN HISTORY: September 9, 1978 – Launching with Love for Venus 🚀✨

Venera-11 and Venera-12 joined Prognoz 7 in a French-Soviet collaboration, creating a gamma-ray triangulation network and advancing Venus exploration. 🌌

Brewminatebrewminate
2025-09-09

🚀✨ Long before Sputnik, humans were already reaching for the stars.

Rocket clubs, daring experiments, and early pioneers set the stage for space exploration. 🌌

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Wittgenstein's Monsterwittgensteinmonster
2025-09-05

🛰️ This Day in History – Sept 5, 1977
On this day, NASA launched Voyager 1.
It still sails, bearing our message to the stars.
Here’s a small poem I wrote for it:

Voyage on, Voyager
Voyage on, Voyager,
so far from home.
Your path I do not begrudge—
you’ve ventured far,
too far for me to follow.
For I would miss my hollow.

Brewminatebrewminate
2025-08-23

TODAY IN HISTORY: August 23, 1960 - Two Soviet Pups, Belka and Strelka, Return to Earth Safely

🐶🚀 Sputnik 5 carried Belka & Strelka into orbit, along with other animals.

Their safe return proved life could endure space, paving the way for Gagarin’s historic flight. 🌍✨

José - Luis Gutiérrez Villanuejoseluis_gutivilla
2025-08-21

🚀 NASA remembers Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell
▶️ youtu.be/7EP0qaBo-tc?si=HWFoNd · via @YouTube @nasa

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