What Did We Leave on the Moon?
Brenda WB5OZL
What Did We Leave on the Moon?
Six flags
Disc of goodwill messages
A gold replica of the olive branch left on the moon by Apollo 11 crewmembers
NASA
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Golf balls
Astronaut badge
A Bible
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Fallen astronaut sculpture
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Fallen_Astronaut.jpg
Astronaut excrement
Five retroreflectors
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Buzz Aldrin carries a Laser Ranging Retroreflector.
Crafts, crashes and rovers
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Waz Up
Space Exploration and Space History
Astronaut Birthdays
- April 3, 1926: Gus Grissom (Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1)
- April 5, 1949: Judith Resnik (STS-41-D, STS-51-L)
- April 5, 1950: Franklin Chang Diaz (STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111)
- April 9, 1950: Kenneth Cockrell (STS-56, STS-69, STS-80, STS-98, STS-111)
- April 9, 1963: Timothy Kopra (STS-127/128 (Expedition 20), Expedition 46/47)
- April 9, 1976: Serena Auñón-Chancellor (Expedition 56/57)
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Constellations: Pyxis, the Compass and Antilia, the Pump
Space Launches For This Week
Space Coast Launches
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
April 15
Falcon 9 • NROL-85
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency. The mission is designated NROL-85. The first stage will return to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg. [March 25]
April 20
Falcon 9 • Crew 4
Launch time: 1037 GMT (6:37 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on its seventh flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. [March 25]
Late April
Falcon 9 • Starlink 4-14
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch with another batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. [March 28]
April
Ariane 5 • MEASAT 3d & GSAT 24
Launch window: TBD
Launch site: ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana
Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA257, to launch the MEASAT 3d and GSAT 24 communications satellites. Built by Airbus Defense and Space for MEASAT, a Malaysian operator, MEASAT 3d is a multi-mission communications satellite outfitted with C-band, Ku-band, and Ka-band payloads for direct-to-home TV broadcasting and internet services over Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. GSAT 24 is a direct-to-home TV broadcasting satellite for the Indian Space Research Organization. [Dec. 14]
April
Astra Rocket 3.3 • TROPICS 1 & 2
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-46, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will launch the first pair of small CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. [March 25]
April 30
Falcon 9 • Nilesat 301
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Nilesat 301 geostationary communications satellite. Nilesat 301, built by Thales Alenia Space, will provide digital broadband and internet connectivity services for the Egyptian operator Nilesat. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. [March 25]
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
“Connecting the Dots with Galilean Moons”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220405102820.htm
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
Tiangong
Apr 17
Envisat
Apr 11
Apr 14
Apr 16
Apr 17
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