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Apollo 8 occurred during Christmas

Jim Lovell was on Apollo 8

Jim Lovell was also on Apollo 13

So by association Apollo 13 is a Christmas movie

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Sputnik 1 Launch - 4 October 1957

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The Sun, as of April 14, 2017.

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Happy space day

I can’t believe space was invented on April 12 1961 when Yuri Gagarin got in a space machine to invent space

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April 12th 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

On this day in 1961, the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer space. Gagarin, a fighter pilot, was the successful candidate for the mission, being selected by Russian space programme director Sergei Korolev. Russia already had a lead in the Space Race, having launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, which was the first satellite in space. On April 12th 1961, Gagarin left Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, famously declaring ‘Poyekhali!’ (which means ‘Let’s go!’ in Russian). He spent 108 minutes completing an orbit of the planet. Upon re-entering the atmosphere, Gagarin executed a successful ejection and landed by parachute in rural Russia, to the consternation of locals. Yuri Gagarin became famous worldwide and a Russian hero, being awarded the nation’s highest honour - Hero of the Soviet Union. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training plane he was piloting crashed; his ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin.

“Don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!” - Gagarin to some stunned farmers when he landed

#I've had this scheduled since Sputnik day

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Deke Slayton when he got grounded and cut from MA-7

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When in Florida, a trip to the Kennedy Space Center’s in order. See the Atlantis looking splendid in retirement. A magnificent display and facility.

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Cassini prepares for final orbital “Grand Finale” at Saturn.

Erik Wernquist, the same filmmaker who created 2014’s “Wanderers” and a stunning New Horizons promotional film in 2015, has created a new video highlighting NASA’s Cassini mission’s final days at Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft will begin its final series of orbits to cap a 13-year groundbreaking science mission known as the Grand Finale. For the first time ever in Cassini’s time at Saturn, the spacecraft will fly in between the planet’s rings and atmosphere. No spacecraft has ever before flown in this region of any of the solar system’s ringed planets. After 23 orbits, Cassini will dive into Saturn’s upper atmosphere September 15 where it will be destroyed. In 2008, mission managers explored a range of End of Mission scenarios that would protect Saturn’s moon’s from Earthly contaminants before ultimately deciding on atmospheric reentry. Cassini began her End of Mission manoeuvres on November 26, 2016, when it began the first of 20 ring-grazing orbits. A close flyby of Titan April 22 will alter the spacecraft’s trajectory to begin the first of 23 orbits in the Grand Finale, which will begin April 26.

Cassini launched from Earth on October 15, 1997, and entered Saturn orbit June 30, 2004. Six months later, on January 14, 2005, the European-built Huygens probe attached to the spacecraft landed on Titan, becoming the first probe to land in the outer solar system. Originally scheduled for a four-year mission ending in 2008, Cassini received two mission extensions in 2008 and 2010, with the latter ending in 2017. With the spacecraft’s fuel reserves low, the Cassini team decided to end the mission. P/C: JPL/Erik Wernquist

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JOHN GLENN BURIED IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY

Legendary astronaut, U.S. senator and Marine Corps fighter pilot John Glenn was buried Thursday morning in Arlington National Cemetery in a drenching rain that pattered on his coffin and soaked the green hillside where he was laid to rest.

#godspeed john glenn

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FUN FACT: It is very windy on Saturn. Winds around the equator can be 1,800 kilometers per hour. That’s 1,118 miles per hour.

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Saturn photobombing the Moon, 1.2 billion kilometers away.

Image Copyright Geek Out Huntsville

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Apollo 19 astronaut Fred Haise on the Moon, November 14, 1973. (NASA)

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March 27, 1968 – Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, while on a routine training flight with Vladimir Seryogin, died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach, Russia. The bodies of Gagarin and Seryogin were cremated and interred in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.