{"id":641,"date":"2011-08-02T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=641"},"modified":"2011-08-02T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:45:38","slug":"summertime-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/summertime-shuttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Shuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago today — August 2, 1991 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> launched from Kennedy Space Center carrying five astronauts and a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.<\/p>\n

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\n(Nice shot of an unnamed storm, taken from STS-43. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe mission STS-43<\/a> crew, John E. Blaha, Michael A. Baker, Shannon W. Lucid, G. David Low, and James C. Adamson, released TDRS-E<\/a> the same day, but remained in orbit another week conducting a variety of experiments.<\/p>\n

\n— BREAK, BREAK —<\/em> <\/p>\n

\nIn other (non-space-history) news, yesterday my speechwriting teacher Joan Detz kindly blogged about my story in Analog<\/em><\/a>. Thanks, Joan!<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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