I had no idea and yesterday I added the challenger hidden tape documentary to my watch list for tonight.

I was too young to remember it, but I know my mom watched it from our yard. Thanks for sharing

“Hmm, maybe if we try again, result will be different comrade”

Even if China builds the first moon base, Americans can just move the goalpost and say the finish line is actually landing on Mars. If the USA first lands on Mars, Chinese can just say the finish line is actually building a Mars base… or vice versa.

IIRC neither the CNSA nor NASA have claimed anyone’s launching any “space race.” The whole thing is just fanned up by politicians and media and doesn’t actually mean anything.

Between space shuttle retirement in 2011 and SpaceX in 2020 US astronauts had to take Russian Soyuz rockets to the ISS

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I was at Kennedy Space Center that day - the coldest day I ever remember in Florida. Very, very sad.

Parts of the surface almost appear porous. I wonder if that's the case or it's just many impacts

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The rules in this subreddit go by UTC time. It's on the right side.

"Images are only allowed on Sunday UTC"

Sadly, Americans focus on Challenger rather than the fact that the shuttle program spanned thirty years and sent over 800 people into space in over 130 missions.

Which part is the airtight suit? Is that the white part ? I notice the green layer also has glove sealing rings.

Dude where have you been? We’re all ready to go home and you just wandered off. It’s been ‘years’ !!

How could this be? Didn’t the US launch astronauts to the ISS every year?

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As a Tradie I was working a Walgreens remodel, they had a TV that they had for sale. Just stopped for a minute to watch the lift off. When the explosion happened I just left for home. I was really interested in everything space and had already set my VCR to rewatch when I got home.

My OMG moment was realizing how many school aged kids had just witnessed the tragedy

Yeah, it would have to be very close. The energy dissipates exponentially with distance. The more surface area exposed to the blast the asteroid has the more energy would be transferred though, so for really big ones it might be more effective than the basic chemical thrusters we have now. Not saying alot of course. A dinosaur killer has enough mass its debatable if we currently have the tech to deflect one that would hit within a decade or two.

That is nice to know, we have 3 nice large ones that work as a compound eye unit

This is true if close enough and it would need to be pretty close, space is big and that heat would dissipate rather quickly otherwise but still perhaps just enough to push it ever so slightly out of the way.

I was in my first year of teaching, and my class was all watching it together.

Spider Crab constellation? Never heard of it.

From *our* home Sol is the left nut in the Massive Mating Gnarpnuklv constellation.

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I had just gotten out of the dentist, mouth and jaw completely numb, my mom told me what had happened when we got to the car (she'd seen it on the waiting room TV). We spent the rest of the day at my grandparent's house with them glued to the TV and me waiting for the novocaine to wear off so I could eat or drink something.

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