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5 years

135 Flights in just over two minutes. I selected my favourite image from each flight of the Space Shuttle program. Enjoy!

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3 years

Im not a @SpaceX fanboy but I have to admit this is pretty.

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Moving on... Next up Soyuz-MS19 launches to the ISS in a little over two days.

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@thehill Just because he has no chance of getting a woman pregnant, he wants to make others pay for his shortcomings.

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So its confirmed that @CommanderMLA is flying the @Axiom_Space @SpaceX #CrewDragon tourist mission with Director @DougLiman & Tom Cruise. One seat still to be filled. They are to launch in October, 2021.

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Ponder this. In todays dollars Endeavour cost $3 Billion. Program cost of the F-35 program - $1.7 Trillion. And yet for that money they are getting less than 2000 of them. $1.7 Trillion equals 566 Space Shuttles. America has an addiction for waste and war.

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OTD - 1988 the Soviets launch their version of the NASA Space Shuttle. Buran OK-1.01

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China’s Space agency claims they have set up Wi-Fi on Tianhe. This allows the crew to literally use their mobile phones to call their own homes! See image of crew demonstrating.

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OTD - 1984 One of my all time favourite EVAs. STS-11 (41B) astronauts McCandless and Stewart's first EVA together. McCandless rides the Manned Maneuvering Unit on its first use and becomes the first human to see a Space Shuttle in orbit.

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3 years

Beautiful pic. The start of a thrill ride for one of the luckiest selectees ever to go to Space, Julia Peresild.

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OTD - 1976 NASA rolled out Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' for its inaugural ceremony.

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4 years

Here is a more specific slide regarding the Artemis-1 mission from yesterdays HEO Committee of the NASA Advisory Council.

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3 years

Its one month to the launch of @inspiration4x on a @SpaceX #CrewDragon . Has anyone seen the modification to the docking ring into a window? Any photos? @rookisaacman

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2 years

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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3 years

China's Shenzhou-13 to launch in just two days to the Tiangong Space Station. With Zhai Zhigang on his second flight, Wang Yaping on her second flight, to conduct China's first female EVA and Ye Guangfu on his first flight becoming the 598th person to enter Space.

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Confirmed there will be two more all-female (Koch & Meir) EVAs Spacewalks on Jan. 15 & 20 to complete the replacement battery process. @Space_Station #ISS @NASA_Astronauts

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OTD- 1989 the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-34 returns to Edwards AFB following the deployment of the Galileo Jupiter Orbiter. Photos by my co-author Joel W. Powell.

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Fixed it, you're welcome. @NASA_SLS

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OTD - 1990 Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31R carrying the Hubble Space Telescope. Proud to have been there for this one.

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LIVE - Ukrainian Antonov-225 landing at Aéroport Paris-Vatry in France. @AntonovCompany

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3 years

Nice pic showing Julia Peresild on her way to the launch pad two days ago. Looking a little unsure about it all.

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7 years

@AFP is it just me or does this image of Kelly Anne sitting with her feet up on the sofa during this meeting seem downright ignorant & rude?

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3 years

OTD - 1988 the Soviets launch their version of the NASA Space Shuttle. Buran OK-1.01 landed a few hours later just a few kilometres from its launch pad.

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3 years

Catalogued my Space collection. Time to insure it all. Part 1 - NASA & Soviet Space Shuttles 1:700, 1:400, 1:288, 1:200, 1:144. Also a few 'Flown in Space' flags and patches.

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I want to go on record in making an apology to @rookisaacman in any criticisms I made over @inspiration4x Knowing now that there was a bigger more deliberate plan for the future has changed my mind. Jared will create a strong foothold in the history books if it all comes true.

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3 years

This is my favourite photo of the day. Rare profile view of Soyuz-MS18 circling the ISS before departing. Taken by @Anton_Astrey

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1 year

The B-21 Raider! #B21

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I just keep staring at this image of Bruce McCandless. I truly believe this is the coolest thing the Shuttle ever did. Anyone want to challenge that?

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Amazing capture by Cai Xuzhe during his ride on the 15 metre combined RMS. On the left is the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft docked to the rear port of Tianhe.

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3 years

Roscosmos is ready for the next 12 mths of ISS visits, cargo and crew.

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3 years

When you are cool and you know it. Julia Peresild has 8 days before she launches to the ISS on Soyuz-MS19.

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2 years

Great image of the #Cygnus deploy yesterday taken from the small 8 inch porthole within the Nauka docking hub.

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3 years

This is a pre-launch view of the inside of Tianhe. This is a cavernous module. Larger by far than US modules in the ISS and also Zvezda. Second image is the same view but loaded with cargo as the Crew arrived last night.

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3 years

Imagine @NASA allowing this after a Space flight. They are taking time to shoot a scene for the movie.

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3 years

New pics 5-8 from Roscosmos - Launch of the Progress-MS16 cargo ship to the ISS yesterday

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3 years

Rockets as art. #Nauka

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3 years

Atlantis STS-129 at the ISS. One of the most unique views of a Space Shuttle in Space.

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3 years

Lovely photo of Julia Peresild prior to her launch. Praying for a safe journey one can assume.

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OTD - 1981 The Space Shuttle Columbia returns home following the mission of STS-1.

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OTD - April 10, 1981 - STS-1 Columbia. Its launch day! What could possibly go wrong? I was there waiting on the NASA Causeway.

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3 years

Pathfinders in the NASA/Soviet Space Shuttle programs. Enterprise OV-101 & Buran OK-MT (first image). Few realise that the Russians built four Burans to conduct the same testing programs that Enterprise alone was tasked with: Buran OK-MT, OK-KS, OK-ML1 (MT behind it) and OK-GLI.

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4 years

When two old friends meet for the very first time, it’s simply magic.

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2 years

@anthony_damico_ @NASASpaceflight @Erdayastronaut @DJSnM Im a Titan-1 & 2 expert. Its a Titan-1. One of 35 that were displayed all over America since they were retired in 1965. Did you catch the large black number on its side?

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@anthony_damico_ @NASASpaceflight @Erdayastronaut @DJSnM Here is a view of one in South Dakota

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2 years

Well Ive lost all "faith" in NASA Admin. @SenBillNelson now. Bringing God and Jesus into todays launch insults millions. Separation of Church and State is within the US Constitution. This truly sickens me. America is not a one religion nation.

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3 years

I am so over @inspiration4x can we all move on and focus on real Space missions, not 72 hr jaunts by millionaires trying to justify their Astronaut status. It’s done, footnotes made in the history books let’s move on.

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3 years

Russian multi-nodal module "Prichal" is mated to its progress delivery craft at Baikonur. Due to launch to the ISS in late November and dock with Nauka.

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The one time @SpaceX adds an identifying logo on its crewed spacecraft and it wont be seen in Space. Sadly, we wont see this craft and its unique design in Space as there will be no way to view it. @inspiration4x @rookisaacman Even the Chinese sent up an inspector craft for this.

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. @SierraSpaceCo has been pushing their Sierra Space Station lately. I just thought I would post their pics in one tweet for clarity. Looks impressive.

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3 years

The next time we see Nauka it will be approaching Zvezda at the ISS. She is beautiful.

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3 years

Incredible new pics of the ISS taken by Dubrov yesterday during the Soyuz-MS18 relocation to Nauka. Closeups are amazing!

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This summer I'm planning a cross country trip to visit all four remaining Orbiters. Long overdue since they retired.

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The largest object ever placed in orbit. 135 of these orbited the Earth from 1981-2011. Think before you attempt to correct me...

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A very busy month for crewed flight to Space. Three more to go. Shenzhou-13, Virgin Galactic 23 and Crew Dragon-3. Yesterday saw the Blue Origin NS-18 crew fly above the Karman line.

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3 years

A teaser to how the Russian Segment of the @Space_Station will look next July. Addition of the 'Nauka/Science' module and removal of Pirs to accomodate it.

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OTD - 1988 Launch of the Soviet Shuttle Buran 'Baikal' OK-1.01

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3 years

I first seriously followed Soviet Space with Salyut-6 in 1977. My first Russian Cosmonaut hero was Valery Ryumin. Flew the 1st attempt to dock with Salyut-6, then back to back 6 mth long duration missions and later another short visit before joining STS-91 at Mir. Happy Birthday

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3 years

@WilliamShatner Sadly for you... the man is right. Putin is a dictator and murderer. Those are unchallenged facts in the West. Spending time on RT is indeed aiding his regime. Sorry you dont see it Bill.

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Having collected 1,000 images of Buran, it’s very rare when a new one appears. This is a frame showing visitors viewing the Buran OK-1.01 before its first launch. Payload bay handling hinges are missing therefor this is a prelaunch Image, not a test run.

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Lets clarify "Astronaut". Orbited the Earth - ASTRONAUT Crossed the Karman line - International Astronaut (maybe) Crossed US defined 50 mile line - US Astronaut (maybe) Trained by a legit national Space agency - Astronaut Space Camp graduate/POSSUM trained - Not an Astronaut

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2 years

A few pics of Buran ML-1 on a transporter to be raised at the Vibration Test Cell.

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11 months

Who can spot my latest addition?

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First clear images of one of the Chinese Tianhe sleeping birth windows, in this case belonging to Hongbo. There are three on the station. No other windows have been identified so far. Thanks @AJ_FI . Final image is from another of the births that straddles the main solar array.

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2 years

Mriya An-225 Gone but never forgotten. @AntonovCompany @AirlinesAntonov

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5 years

@funder Thats a good boy, thats a good boy... now where did I put that pooper scooper?

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2 years

Two views inside the Wentian module. First looking forward to the EVA airlock door. Second looking back at the Wentian/Tianhe entry hatchway.

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4 years

China CCTV video screencaps of a future Lunar mission to be conducted by their new manned spacecraft.

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4 years

My favourite Buran poster. Buran OK-M/ML1 taken about 1990. This craft was used for acoustic and facility/pad fit checks. Never intended to ever fly in Space. Interestingly the Soviets had 4 vehicles that did the combined work of NASA's Space Shuttle Enterprise, this was one.

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3 years

New pics released of Russia's Prichal (Berth in english) multi-docking node. This will launch in November and be added to Nauka. That mission will be another great show.

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6 years

@StationCDRKelly FFS apologizing for quoting Churchill because ascribed to British morays on race? So we can no longer quote anyone born before 1950? Slippery slope people.

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Looking for rare Buran images. Discovered these new pics of Buran 1.02 (flight versions sister). People who trespassed to view these not only stole tiles but broke all the flight deck windows. I hope some of these people are sitting in jail today. Prosecute all who trespassed.

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Images like this need to be posters. View taken by hi-def camera on the #ISS port truss showing the @JAXA_jp JEM & HTV-8 last week.

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2 years

A part of my Buran An-225 collection. 1:144, 1:288, 1:400. 1:500 and 1:700 scales

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4 years

First time I have seen a photo of two Buran Shuttles being assembled side by side. Sadly, I cannot identify which ones they are.

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3 years

. @inspiration4x ’s Hayley Arceneaux will become the first person in history to fly into Space with no Space Agency affiliation, a person who did not pay to fly, and has little or no training. A true random human launching into Space. Can anyone find a comparison to her?

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Julia Peresild, looking very serious in training at Star City. The plan is to launch to the ISS and make the first ever feature film in Space. Are the plans locked in stone?

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@esa @astro_luca @Space_Station Looks better right side up. This image shows a rare view of the join between Unity and Destiny, which is rarely seen so clearly. View orientation is station forward to the right and along the central truss toward the port side. The JEM on the right with Leonardo in the middle.

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Incredible hi-res image taken by Zhai Zhigang commander of the Shenzhou-13 crew. Shows the entire port side of Tianhe-1 taken from his perspective on the end of the remote manipulator arm.

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FYI the Progress-M-UM that delivered Prichal to the ISS will depart on Dec. 21.

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18 years ago today - Launch of Columbia STS-107 on her final mission.

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Next crew to fly to the #ISS #Exp40 /41 #SoyuzTMA14M Wilmore, Serova & Samokutayev have completed final training. http://t.co/dYZ48DfOCP

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A few first looks inside Tianhe as the crew entered this evening. First two images are from inside the very spacious multi-docking hub/EVA airlock. Next two are from inside the Station.

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Truly remarkable shot - Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. has captured the International Space Station #ISS (alt ~400km) on their Jilin-1 optical satellite (alt ~640km).

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No boom!

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Next year we will see more human rated spacecraft flying than at any other time in World history. Soyuz, Shenzhou, Crew Dragon, Starliner, Orion and Gaganyaan. Plus three or more Sub-orbital craft as well. 2021 will be the busiest year in Space history for Mankind.

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Who doesnt love a good Soyuz launch! @roscosmos @glavkosmosJSC @gk_launch

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My collection after the big move. 1/4

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Oct. 11, 2000 Launch of STS-92 (100th Shuttle flight) @Astro_Wakata @AstroDude @CommanderMLA (all 3 follow me!) http://t.co/j59sdyqvP4

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@TJ_Cooney Here is a companion image from the roof of the VAB.

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3 years

Just breaking it down.

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Did you know that the Soviets placed four different Shuttles on the launchpad? Two were test vehicles as Enterprise, never meant to fly. Buran would fly, its sister would not get that honour. OK-ML1, OK-MT, OK-1.01 and OK-1.02. Note we are still looking for better images of ML-1.

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4 years

@nikki_nowicki Im 39 years free of drugs and alcohol.

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Photo collection of all images known for Buran OK-ML1. One of several prototypes that duplicated tests that Enterprise conducted for the NASA Shuttle program. Other Burans to follow. Thanks @b0_mby for new contributions.

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Finally some hi res images of the Chinese Tianhe core module. After years of waiting. Via @Kaynouky 1st image is the top or Zenith side, 2nd image is the bottom or Nadir side. Note the folded RMS.

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Chins's new Manned craft. Pics 1-4 - A few posts regarding the new Chinese manned craft due to launch soon with the next Long March-5.

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@Rogozin You are a sad man @rogozin - the whole World recognises Zalensky as a hero and Putin a zero.

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@McTestaInc @juliehdavis @maggieNYT Exactly, why are any free thinking journalists second guessing that Trump isnt a liar? Are they saying he cant help himself? If thats true then he has no right being in office anyway. Fact is, @realDonaldTrump is a compulsive liar, simple minded and ignorant of facts.

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New Pic 1 - @astro_timpeake signing the rental agreement for his ride to the #ISS . He took the full cover option.

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Soyuz-MS18 departing the ISs with the 'Challenge' movie crew @novitskiy_iss Shipenko and Peresild.

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To prep for the first launch of Buran the Soviets threw a lot of money at test vehicles. NASA concentrated on Shuttle Enterprise for early tests such as landings, pad fit checks & more. The Soviets had 4 vehicles to do the same work. Here is their Shuttle family. Part 1 of 2.

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