the original space cowboy

[egg-on-a-legg]

before you leave you must know you are beloved and before you leave remember i was with you

[fredhaise]

what if i told you chris hadfield showed up at my work today

[fredhaise]

besties!! i know it’s been a while but ya girl’s been busy😭 but guess what!! i am officially a college graduate!! i don’t walk till sunday but final grades are in and i have completed my bachelor’s in aviation management w/ a minor in history. and i owe it all to this guy:’)

[fredhaise]

my senior research is DONE!! i am so proud of everything i put into this paper. definitely my proudest work in college!!

[fredhaise]

97% on the paper, 100% on the poster, and 100% on the presentation🥳

[fredhaise]

my senior research is DONE!! i am so proud of everything i put into this paper. definitely my proudest work in college!!

[fredhaise]

started my x-15 research paper today>:)

[fredhaise]

this is coming along very well and i’m excited:)

[missionspecialist]

So which is y’alls favorite space shuttle and why? mine’s Endeavour for entirely stupid reasons that I decided on when I was like 10: it’s the closest to me in age and it was a replacement based on spare parts, so it’s like, the scrappy underdog of the family.

[fredhaise]

unironically enterprise bc fred haise

[fredhaise]

started my x-15 research paper today>:)

[fredhaise]

hi friends i am back for my once in every four months post asking for help again. i need to pick a senior capstone research topic. my prof said i could do a history topic so i want to study the x-15. what are some specific topics (history based, not mechanics) that i could write on?

[fredhaise]

hey besties i finally made a sports page so i don’t annoy y’all anymore > @jhmemechek

[gusgrissom]

I looooove Apollo 13 (1995) but that film’s wholehearted commitment to casting actors who look nothing like the historical figures they’re portraying is so funny to me still. Like physical resemblance isn’t the end-all-be-all and it’s more about capturing the essence of the person, and that movie has some fantastic performances etc, but it’s like they were actively looking for dudes who would absolutely never be mistaken for their real-life counterparts under any circumstances

[maranello]

QATAR, 2021 — Mick Schumacher. (Photo by Andy Hone)

[gusgrissom]

[gusgrissom]

Happy birthday to Air Force test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut Lt. Col. Edward Higgins “Ed” White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967), who would’ve turned 91 today!

Ed was a hero in every sense of the word, and he dedicated his life to making the world a better place. Remembering him with love and respect, today and every day.

“It’s going to be exciting, this conquest of space, and full of a lot of wonderful things… things we haven’t even dreamed about yet.”

[gusgrissom]

Ed White in an Apollo navigation simulator at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. Can’t find a specific date, but most likely some time after March 1966 when he was announced as the senior pilot of Apollo 1.

[missionspecialist]

Appreciation post for this specific LLRV/LLTV training outfit. The white flight suit with the grey overalls/vest seems like it’s the latest iteration of this gear, since there are pics showing pilots at Edwards testing it in the more typical orange suits before it was handed over to the astronauts.

From top to bottom: Alan Shepard, Jim Lovell, and Neil Armstrong. All Apollo Commanders trained on the LLRV/LLTV to simulate landing on the moon. Many of them later attested that it was very helpful to have this experience when it came to actually landing on the lunar surface, but I also kinda remember reading somewhere that some of them hated training on it.

[nasainitsprime-blog]

Always remember: never let them down.