Craig Saila#GPS has been with us forever guiding us through cities and ensuring our phones work
That’s almost true
The last of the first batch of satellites, intended to prove our idea of a global positioning system (hence “GPS”) launched 40 years ago today
“Good night, good luck [to] all of you — all of you on the good Earth” 🌍
Before I miss it:
Happy #Sputnik (slash start of the #SpaceRace) Day!
Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep! (Remastered)
61 years ago today, #Canada became the fourth country to have a satellite in #space and only the third country to manage to build its own satellite
Wonder where Canada would be now had the country continued at to keep pace with that level space-based development?
54 years and 17 minutes ago, humans first set foot on the #Moon
I can’t wait until we return again
60 years ago today, #ValentinaTereshkova became the first — and still to this day, the youngest — woman to fly into #space
She orbited the 48 times and was in space for more than two days
The video for "#Valentina" (also one of my favourite #PublicServiceBroadcasting songs) has some incredible footage of her from that period https://youtu.be/kSBMeWY5wmk
Public Service Broadcasting/Inform - Educate - Entertain
On this day, 62 years ago, the trajectory #KatherineJohnson manually calculated carried #NASA’s first astronaut, #AlanShepard, to #space in the #Freedom7 spacecraft
She was also the one who determined that this was date the #rocket could launch 🚀
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count
If you’re looking to watch something tonight, why not watch a doc about the I’ll-fated #Apollo13 which launched on this day 53 years ago https://youtu.be/cZDC-6rgslI
Apollo 13 Remastered (50th Anniversary) [4K]
57 years ago, #Luna10 became the first human-made object to orbit the #Moon
