STS-7 was the second mission of Space Shuttle Challenger and Bob Crippen. It was also the long over due flight of the first American woman astronaut, Sally Ride. June 18, 1983. The mission featured the release of two satellites and the capture of one.…
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Launch: 4 April 1983 18:30:00 UTC
STS-6 was the sixth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on 4 April 1983, the mission deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, into orbit, before landing at Edwards Air Force Base on 9 April.…
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Launch: 11 November 1982, 12:19:00 UTC
STS-5 was the first operational flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter 102 Columbia. Commander Vance D. Brand, Pilot Robert F. Overmyer, Mission Specialist Joseph P. Allen, Mission Specialist William B. Lenoir. STS-5 was the first shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit.
Launch: 27 June 1982, 15:00:00
STS-4 was the final test flight for the shuttle. Astronauts Thomas Ken Mattingly Ⅱ, and Henry W. Harsfield, Jr. orbited for a week in the summer 1982.
Launch: 22 Mar 1982, 11:00:00 am
STS-3 was the third test flght of the Space Shuttle Obiter Columbia. Astronauts were Jack R. Lousma, commander, and C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot.
Launch: 12 Nov 1981, 10:09:59 am
STS-2 was the United States’ second Space Shuttle orbital flight test mission. Crewmen were Astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot. Their spacecraft, Orbiter 102 Columbia, is depicted in the insignia along with the crew members’ surname, and the merged eagle and American flag.…
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STS-1 was the first of four orbital flight tests to verify the design and performance capability of the Space Transportation System.
Veteran Astronaut John Young was the commander of the mission. Rookie Astronaut Robert Crippen was the pilot.
The mission was approximately fifty-four hours.…
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I’m generally a fan of Google products. Recent developments in Google Drive have me worried. I’m hoping that Google can fix these issues. Specifically I have talking about the musical chairs game that Google is playing with their cloud storage app.…
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In 1981 I lived in Florida and the Space Shuttle Program was about to launch the first test of their new system. My father subscribed to the local newspaper, The St. Petersburg Times. He started pulling out newspaper clippings. At first I collected them in a box but then had the idea to put them in a scrapbook.…
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Back in August Shawn King announce the end of the Your Mac Life Show after many, many years. I wish him well on his future endeavors.
I had the pleasure of meeting Shawn twice. The first was a Mac World San Fransisco 1998.…
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Just got my new Mac mini (M1, 2020) spun up and taking it for a test drive. I’m immediately impressed by how many apps that I use are showing up as “Apple” in the Architecture column of the Process Monitor. For apps that still required the old Intel chip, there’s Rosetta.…
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Every year I get calls and emails from my customer about a “bill” they received that apparently requires payment to keep their domain. The letters are intentionally formatted to look like an invoice complete with a spot to fill in your credit card number.…
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As discussed in my previous post, the cost of always-on data plans are too high for users like me who only occasionally need mobile data and occasionally need data overseas. While looking for a data plan for overseas use, I accidentally solved my domestic data needs.…
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