April 5, 2013
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Gemini 8 was in trouble. The spacecraft was spinning rapidly, the astronauts were fighting to stay conscious, and worst of all — they were out of the reach of NASA’s Mission Control. The astronauts eventually did make contact during that 1966 [...]
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January 31, 2013
NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade as the first of a new generation of communications satellites was launched to orbit on Wednesday, January 30 at 8:48 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral. See the launch video and more images of the launch, below. The TDRS system provides a critical communications link [...]
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