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Being A First

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Caryn

The world is full of firsts, and John Bennett Herrington is one of them. Born on September 14, 1958, a member of the Chickasaw Nation in Wetumka, Oklahoma, Herrington grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Riverton, Wyoming, and Plano, Texas, … Continue reading →

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Lunar Golf

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Caryn

Astronauts are normally all business as they prepare for their space flights, but even these professionals have a sense of humor, and on occasion, they have been known to pull a fast one on NASA officials. Over the years, things … Continue reading →

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Destination Venus

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Caryn

In the height of space travel, NASA decided to set up a mission to take pictures of Venus. The planet is always shrouded in a layer of clouds, with an extremely thick carbon dioxide atmosphere. When looking at Venus in visible light, those clouds are all you would see. Continue reading →

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Less Than Ideal

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Caryn

The Space Shuttle Challenger mission, named STS-51-L, was the twenty-fifth Space Shuttle flight and the tenth flight of Challenger. The crew was announced on January 27, 1985, and was commanded by Dick Scobee. Michael Smith was assigned as the pilot, Continue reading →

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The Crash In The Desert

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Caryn

The Controlled Impact Demonstration, also known as “the Crash in the Desert” was a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The idea was to intentionally crash a remotely controlled Boeing 720 airplane in order to acquire data and test new technologies to aid passenger and crew survival. Continue reading →

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Touching Space

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Caryn

The first official space flight occurred on April 12, 1961, when Soviet astronaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Continue reading →

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When Disaster Strikes

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Caryn

Thankfully, the NASA space program hasn’t had a great number of losses, but that doesn’t make any loss less devastating that any of the others. On February 1, 2003, just a little over 17 years after the Challenger disaster, the country was once again feeling like the Space Shuttle program Continue reading →

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Lost In Space

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Caryn

Many of us have seen shows about a spacecraft that got lost in space and is seen wandering around trying to make their way back. Of course, those shows are fiction, but if you were going to explore beyond our galaxy, you would most likely need to send some sort of probe or spaceship Continue reading →

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Shortage Consequences

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Caryn

Shortages are usually problematic in one way or another, but sometimes they can be catastrophic, and sometimes, while not catastrophic, they can mean a really great loss. Shortages come in many forms, Continue reading →

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Docking With Mir

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Caryn

Our space program has gone through many changes over the years. There have been accidents, losses, victories, and amazing strides in both exploration and the vehicles we use to take these trips. One of the biggest goals was to have a space station so that men Continue reading →

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