Friday, December 8, 2023

The Explorers' Club, № CMXCVII

Operation AXIOM: The Space Age—The 40th Anniversary of S.T.S.-9, Part II
29 November-8 December 1983: Spacelab 1—The crew split (Red Team: Young, Parker, Merbold & Blue Team: Shaw, Garriott, Lichtenberg) to conduct science twenty-four hours/day; they transmitted significant data to the ground through T.D.R.S.-1; two of the five AP-101B flight-control computers malfunctioned, but one was rebooted; after 167 orbits, the Columbia landed at California's Edwards.
Bonus! Space Age Song o' the Day: S.T.S.-9
Skameleon, "Alles Nur Geklaut" from Ska Makes Everything Better (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
Semper exploro.

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