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Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from Cassini during its flyby of Jupiter

“Superman” astronaut Oleg Kononenko during the examination of Soyuz spacecraft, last December - Picture by NASA/ESA/A. Gerst [640x960]

It almost looks like a high school yearbook photo, Anna Lee Fisher looks so young. Instead it’s her astronaut photo taken by NASA in 1979 when she completed her 1st year of training. Dr. Fisher flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in Nov 1984 to become the 1st mother in space. It was also the 1st Shuttle mission which deployed & retrieved 2 communication satellites. Space heroine!

February 4, 1970 – At Cape Canaveral, Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell trains for a moonwalk he’ll never make.

The arcing interstellar bow wave is created by the star Zeta Ophiuchi. The bluish star at the centre is Zeta Oph, a star 20 times more massive and 65,000 times more luminous than our Sun. Credit:NASA,JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope.

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The first space station in history, Salyut 1, seen from either Soyuz 10 or, more likely, Soyuz 11.

Two crews visited Salyut 1 between April and June of 1971.  Soyuz 10 launched 23 April to visit the space station, but couldn’t achieve hard dock with Salyut and was forced to abort the mission.  On 6 June, the ill-fated Soyuz 11 made it’s way to Salyut 1, and successfully docked the following day.  The crew spent 23 days aboard the space station before being forced to return to Earth because of problems related to the station, including an electrical fire.  Unfortunately, a faulty pressure relief valve caused the Soyuz reentry capsule to depressurize and the entire crew was killed.  At the time, Soyuz crews were not required to wear pressure suits during reentry, and this was quickly changed following the disaster.

Georgy Dobrovolsky, Victor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov remain the only human beings to die in space.