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STS 133 launches in February 2011 Photo by the author taken at Space View Park Titusville Florida Despite the end of the space shuttle program

The space shuttle Discovery inside the Vehicle Assembly Building VAB at Kennedy Space Center August 4 2011 Photo by the author nbsp KSC 8217 s

nbsp John Young 1965 He was approximately my age 34 in this Life magazine photo nbsp Happy birthday to Floridian badass and originator of

This video is no longer available nbsp Video created by Emily Carney nbsp LEGAL NOTE All photos by NASA Song is 8220 This Is It

Presented without comment Emily Carney is a writer space enthusiast and creator of the This Space Available space blog published since 2010 In January 2019

NASA photo from 1981 I 8217 m assuming this was taken after NASA made clones out of the remaining DNA samples of Young and Crippen

MR 4 Liberty Bell 7 launched 50 years ago this month carrying Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil I 8220 Gus 8221 Grissom Image via Spacelog So

A member of Expedition 28 8217 s crew on the International Space Station took this photo of Atlantis reentering yesterday morning Check out the bright

Space shuttle Atlantis STS 135 makes its last landing on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center 8217 s Shuttle Landing Facility at 5 56 AM

Tomorrow morning space shuttle Atlantis will be landing winding up 30 years of the U S space shuttle program If all goes as planned STS

Space shuttle Endeavour and the ISS docked as seen from a Soyuz capsule May 23 2011 Photo courtesy of Paulo Nespoli NASA nbsp At this

8220 Dang NASA is messin 8217 up mah hair 8221 Super tousled John from 1981 in early shuttle era pressure suit NASA photo nbsp

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