General Discussion

Here you'll find daily images from the history of spaceflight. I'm a spaceflight enthusiast and I'm here to provide images for the amusement of other enthusiasts, casual fans, or even anyone who just likes the aesthetic. The images may come from Tumblr, Twitter, image libraries from online databases, or my own personal collection of photos from various space missions over time.

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[b]Day 1: 10 January 2018[/b] [img]https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a13/AS13-62-8885.jpg[/img] This is an image of the moon, taken during Apollo 13. It was taken from a window of the LM, as the CSM had to be powered down after the explosion in the oxygen tanks, meaning the crew was living out of the LM for much of the duration of the mission.

[b]Day 2: 11 January 2018[/b] @VincentAnderlin @kallimabutterfly @NotarySojac @Firra [img]https://spacelydotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/10259346_883860828296886_7677230748681586925_n.jpg[/img] I was going to do a serious picture today, but I ended up doing this image of the New Nine instead. The New Nine were the second class of NASA astronauts. I belieeeeeeeeeeeeve the order here is, from top right down and around clockwise, Frank Borman, John Young, Tom Stafford, Pete Conrad, Jim McDivitt, Jim Lovell, Elliot See, Ed White & Neil Armstrong. I could be wrong, though. I mostly like this image because Jim Lovell looks like he found a spider and is calculating how long it would take to evacuate the building so as to safely set the entire structure on fire. [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/312830597901058048/401076283406155779/IMG_20180111_101242.jpg[/img] "Houston, we have a problem, and it's crawling on the ceiling closer and closer to right above my head"

Oh my gosh, all their expressions. That is so great.

The guy in the back also looks like he saw a spider, but he's into it.

@BezimiennyRaptor Added!

@Firra Yeah, I was gonna comment about Neil's face, but... He. He looks like he's trying to catch it in his mouth like a snowflake and I'm not feeling it.

[b]Day 3: 12 January 2018[/b] @VincentAnderlin @kallimabutterfly @NotarySojac @Firra @BezimiennyRaptor [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/276515100465299456/401475705168461824/ap13-S70-35013-deke-holding-co2-filter-fix.jpg[/img] I lost my book about Mission Control for a day and found it again, so to celebrate, I'm delving into my folder about the subject! Today's image is of Deke Slayton holding the reason the Apollo 13 crew didn't die of CO2 poisoning on their way home. Since the CSM had to be powered down, the Apollo 13 crew made their way back to Earth by living out of the LM. Unfortunately, the LM wasn't designed to act as a lifeboat for a crew with a busted CSM, so they ran into a few problems. One of them was from the CO2 filters, which quickly became saturated, because the LM wasn't designed to support three people for that long. They had to take filters from the CSM and hook them up to the LM, but they weren't designed to be interchangable. The result was the conglameration of map pages, hoses, bags, etc that you see here. This image was accessed from the [url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a13/images13.html]Apollo 13 Image Library[/url].

[b]Day 4: 13 January 2018[/b] @VincentAnderlin @kallimabutterfly @NotarySojac @Firra @BezimiennyRaptor [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/223267327985188875/401948721023025152/apollo_8_reentry.jpg[/img] This image is a photograph of the reentry of Apollo 8, the first mission we sent to the moon. Apollo 7 had been a test of the command module, and the LM wasn't ready for use yet, so they sent the CSM (and astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) to the moon for Apollo 8. They were the first astronauts to leave Earth's orbit and the first to orbit the Moon. Reentry occured on December 27, 1968, and the spacecraft splashed down at 10:52 AM EST; during reentry, astronauts experienced a crushing 6g from deceleration. This image was accessed from [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_8_reentry,_December_27,_1968.jpg]Wikipedia Commons[/url]; the original photo is catalogued by JSC and was taken by a US Air Force employee.

@violalore
Could I please be added to the pinglist?
I also love space and all things to do with it, and these photos are super cool!
edit: deleted an accidental double-post. whoops.

@Cunea of course! :D

[b]Day 5: 14 January 2018[/b] @VincentAnderlin @kallimabutterfly @NotarySojac @Firra @BezimiennyRaptor @Cunea [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/276515100465299456/402290910555275285/columbia_returning_after_sts_1.jpg[/img] In the wake of John Young's passing, I feel obligated to post at least one of his missions here. So here's Columbia coming in for a landing after STS-1, the first spaceborne Shuttle flight! Though Enterprise was the first Space Shuttle (thanks, Trekkies), she wasn't fit for spaceflight and was used to test the orbiter in flight. Columbia was the first true Space Shuttle orbiter, prepared to face the great beyond and all the extremes of space. On April 12, 1981--the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, the first time our species dipped our toes into the seas of the cosmos--Columbia took off, embarking on her historic first flight. It was also the first American manned spaceflight since the Apollo days almost a decade earlier. Columbia landed two days later, on April 14th, at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California.