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Space Stations, Space Shuttles and Beyond - The Aerospace Discussion Thread
BenRG:
In other news, SpaceX yesterday successfully flew and recovered Falcon-9 serial no. 1021, marking the first time that the company has re-used in a full flight cycle one of its recovered Falcon-9 first stages. The mission was to launch the SES-10 communications satellite which, in a footnote, successfully reached Geostationary Transfer Orbit about 20 minutes after the historic second landing of booster 1021 on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.
Akima:
Someone at SpaceX obviously reads Iain M. Banks.
Akima:
On 16th June 1963 Valentina Tereshkova launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome to become the first woman in space, and one of the first two astronauts in history (I should say cosmonauts really since the other participant, Valery Bykovsky, was also Soviet) to perform an orbital rendezvous, and communicate between two vessels in space.
So I was rather surprised to read this headline: "The First Woman In Space Turns 80, And You Probably Never Heard Of Her." Really? Seriously?
Kugai:
Gotta love American Exceptionalism
BenRG:
Poor Valentina has always been fated to be a name without a face and then rarely even that.
I love the way she's the namesake of the smarter of the two pilot Kerbals in Kerbal Space Program. Most fans agree that she's Jeb's Thinking Brain Copilot.
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