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The first flight of the Martin Marietta X-24B lifting body rocket plane on 1973 August 1st was after the first flights of the Northrop M2-F3 lifting body rocket plane and the Apollo command and service module and was the last of the five US heavyweight lifting body designs flown between 1966 and 1975 to study vehicle designed for reentry from space. The Martin Marietta X-24B was a rebuild of the Martin Marietta X-24A.

Lifting bodies attempt to minimize drag by having a fuselage with little or no wing. This contrast flying wings which have a wing with little or no fuselage.

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Apollo 15 (1971), mementos left on lunar surface to commerate fallen astronauts

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Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Jim Irwin stands near the Lunar Roving Vehicle at the end of EVA-1. Mons Hadley towers in the background. July 31, 1971.

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Made from reclaimed #SaturnV #rockets is the #Skylab orbital #spacestation 🚀

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The Skylab space station, sometimes called Skylab 1, was launched on May 14, 1973, by a Saturn V. The 2nd manned crew to visit the Skylab space station was Skylab 3 launched July 28, 1973, by a Saturn 1B.

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With my older rendition of the Command Module Panel, just the CDR (Left seat) segment, getting some unexpected attention; I figured I would share again the completed panel. Larger Here.

Lots of changes and updates were made carrying the project on from the CDR panel. That was originally all I’d planned to do but as tribute to the all the hard work thousands of men and women poured into the real world spacecraft it was the least I could do to honor them. I began sometime mid 2017 and completed in 2018 nearly a year later. There’s better renditions out there, sure; but this one is mine.

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3D mock-up of the #LunarModule #spacecraft #cockpit with #pilot controls 🚀

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Instrument panels inside #cockpit of #lunarmodule #spacecraft 🚀

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Apollo 11 command module Columbia 50 years after splashdown in the North Pacific.

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This is another view of an Apollo Lunar Module in a Museum (Seattle Museum of Flight). This was the ascent module for the Apollo missions to return from the Moon.

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Where on Mars? Tomorrow, weather permitting, is the scheduled launch of Nasa’s Perseverance Mars Rover, and we’re 1 week since the launch of China’s Tianwen-1 mission which carries a lander and rover. This image from the Planetary Society shows the previous landing sites of any mission to successfully put down on Mars’s surface, as well as the target landing sites for the next planned missions. -JBB Image credit: https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/charts/mars-landings-past-and-future.html (CC licensed)

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Viking 1 landed on Mars July 20th 1976

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The Viking spacecraft each had an orbiter and a lander which respectively orbited and landed on Mars. In general spacecraft that go beyond the Moon are robotic because they have to take action to orbit or land on a planet independently since communications from Earth would take too long to be effective. Beyond robotic landing maneuvers, the lander also included an arm with a soil collector on the end. This was used along with automated biology experiments on the interior of the lander to test for indications of life. The Viking landers robotic operations were controlled by a Guidance, Control, and Sequencing Computer (GCSC) which had software written in Fortran.

If anyone out there has more information on the design of the HDC 402 24-bit processors used to build the GCSC or in the software or I/O hardware actually used in the Viking GCSC, I would love to get more details.

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From July 16–24, 1969, Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon.

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July 20, 1976: Viking 1 becomes the first American spacecraft to land on Mars.

The first of two Project Viking missions to Mars, Viking 1 landed on Chryse Planitia on the 15th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. During its six years of surface operations, the lander analyzed four samples of Martian regolith in search for organic compounds. The Viking 1 orbiter is best remembered for snapping a peculiar picture of Mount Cydonia, famously known today as the "Face on Mars".

Learn more about Project Viking here!