Results for "Astronauts"
Link Love: 10/2/2020
- Date: October 2, 2020
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- Date: January 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
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Meanwhile, back on earth... A Slideshow
- Date: June 5, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque
So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?
- Date: July 16, 2019
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?
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The Mercury's Rising. Again.
- Date: May 30, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="This image from Mercury mission number four taken on Sept. 13, 1961 is just one of the many images that was written on by engineers. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University."][/caption] On May 16th, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral to watch the Endeavor, the NASA space shuttle,
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kathryn Sullivan
- Date: October 11, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2017. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 8/14/2015
- Date: August 14, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
"Roughing" It
- Date: June 9, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Having grown up in a major U.S. city with a family that considered spending a week in a grass hut camping, I committed to giving my daughter more exposure to the great outdoors with all the wonderful state and national parks near Washington D.C. However, lack of sleep and rehydrated food was not what I had in mind.Throughout history, Smithsonian researchers have conducted
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Link Love: 8/31/2018
- Date: August 31, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Link Love: 10/9/2015
- Date: October 9, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Television and the Smithsonian: The Moon Party and "Instant History"
- Date: November 27, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On July 20, 1969, television broadcasters and Smithsonian visitors joined in watching history in the making when astronauts stepped onto the Moon.
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See Here: 2/12/2010
- Date: February 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="397" caption="Apollo 11 astronauts (from left) Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldren reunited at the National Air and Space Museum for a filming session to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the July 1969 landing, 1989, by Richard Strauss, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder July