STP17 - Rocketing Around The Christmas Tree
To get us in the festive spirit, we spend some time looking at the history of crewed space flight at Christmas. We even added some jingle bells to help get you in the mood.
Further Reading:
A brief history of humans spending Christmas in space: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-18/brief-history-of-humans-spending-christmas-in-space/9235812
Christmas on Skylab (Andrew LePage) - https://www.drewexmachina.com/2014/12/24/christmas-1973-on-skylab/
Christmas 2000 on the ISS (Andrew LePage) - https://www.drewexmachina.com/2015/12/24/christmas-2000-on-the-iss/
STS 103: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-103.html
STS 61: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-61.html
Christmas 97 on Mir: https://www.windows2universe.org/headline_universe/holly_mir.html&edu=high&dev=1the
This week's space news:
Launches:
Astra Rocket 3.2 - December 15th:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/12/astra-second-orbital-launch-attempt/
India - ISRO launch of PSLV XL rocket: December 17th:
https://www.isro.gov.in/update/17-dec-2020/pslv-c50-successfully-launches-cms-01-sriharikota
Russia/Arianespace - Soyuz 2.1b - Oneweb - December 18th
Space X Falcon 9 - NROL108 - December 19th
China - Long March 8 first launch - December 22nd:
Chang'e 5 returns a sample from the moon: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263352-chinas-change-5-mission-has-returned-samples-from-the-moon-to-earth/
The Great Conjunction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-55409934
Image credit: NASA
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Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
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