Questions tagged [history]
Questions pertaining to the history of space exploration. Includes how current things will be viewed historically from the future (e.g. Apollo Moon landing sites 100 years from now)
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First Spacewalk - Alexey Leonov - VOSKHOD 2 [closed]
Were attached photographs officially released as taken on this EVA?
Was all of the footage in this video officially released as being taken in space on this EVA?
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Has the continued monitoring of the Voyagers probes been in danger of being discontinued, and if so, how many times?
I assume the continued monitoring of the Voyager probes has been part of the annual NASA appropriations and authorization, NASA Appropriations and Authorizations: A Fact Sheet, for example.
Have there ...
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How was it determined that 1977 was best time to launch voyagers for "grand tour"
Was it multitudinous mathematical trial runs that determined that 1977 was best time within a 176 year period to launch the voyagers? Initial launch was to obtain close encounters with Jupiter and ...
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Did the ISS CREAM experiment actually get relocated?
A recent update (May 22) to the database for the NASA visualization tool DOUG shows that the CREAM payload has been relocated to the top of the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Pressurized ...
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Were there books published in 1960s to late 1970s that reflected the effect of the Cold War on historians' views of the Space Race?
Were there books published in 1960s to late 1970s that reflected the effect of the Cold War on historians' views of the Space Race of the 1960s?
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Quickest return from stable Earth orbit to ground?
Inspired by this Worldbuilding question about orbital deployment (deploying things to the ground from orbit): What is the quickest that something has actually deorbited and landed from a stable closed ...
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Which was the first liquid non hypergolic engine to be reignited in space?
Which was the first liquid non hypergolic engine to be reignited in space? ( space = above 100km )
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What is the provenance of this photo of the Great Lakes from space?
My late grandfather owned this photo of the Great Lakes region:
We don’t know where this photo is from or how he got it. He was a civilian engineer who worked closely with the Department of Defense ...
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What is the lowest-inclination orbit ever achieved by a US crewed spacecraft?
The inclination range from KSC is advertised to be 28 to 62 degrees; what is the lowest inclination ever reached by a US crewed spacecraft?
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What is the lowest inclination orbit ever achieved by a crewed Soyuz mission?
Inspired by a recent question regarding Soyuz capsules I wondered what is the lowest inclination Soyuz mission? Highest inclination human spaceflights have been asked about here before. Soyuz 22 may ...
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How often in NASA history was "Houston, we have a problem" or deviations actually said?
The phrase "Houston, we've had a problem" was said by Jim Lovell after the oxygen tank blew up during Apollo 13, and in the movie Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell said "Houston, we have a ...
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Instead of ending the Apollo program, why didn't NASA just decrease the frequency of lunar flights?
Russia is launching the completely non-reusable Soyuz rocket about four times a year on manned missions to the ISS, and even more often if you include the Progress cargo launches, not to mention Soyuz ...
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When would the Soviets have landed on the moon, if NASA had not beaten them to it? [closed]
I know that after the untimely death of Korolev, the crewed moon mission was having struggles, but could they have overcome them? What would their timeline have been?
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Was there ever a crewed space mission that could possibly escape the solar system? [duplicate]
The German song "Major Tom" adds a twist onto David Bowie's "Space Oddity", by giving clues to the spacecraft commander Mayor Tom to deliberately abort the mission in favor of ...
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What kept the Soviets from going to the Moon (before the US)?
I know that Saturn V's payload was 140 tons, about 20 times that of Soyuz. The Soviets did not have a functioning rocket with similar characteristics. But why? They had a head start in the space race ...
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