Monday, November 2, 2020

The Explorers' Club, № DCCLXXXI

Operation AXIOM: The Space Age—The 20th Anniversary of Soyuz TM-31 & Expedition 1
31 October-2 November 2000: Soyuz TM-31 lifted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying CDR Bill Shepherd, Flight Engineer 1 Yuri Gidzenko, & Flight Engineer 2 Sergei Krikalev aboard a Soyuz-TM capsule atop a Soyuz-U rocket; Expedition 1 began when the trio boarded the International Space Station, begining twenty years of continuous habitation in space… & counting.
Bonus! Space Age Song o' Soyuz TM-31 & Expedition 1
The Phenomenauts, "Infinite Frontier" from For All Mankind (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
Semper exploro.

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