Month: December 2021

Astronaut Has Life-Altering Moment in Christmas Spacewalk

Astronaut Has Life-Altering Moment in Christmas Spacewalk

SpaceAgeChronice.com welcomes Jeff Carr writing about his father, Jerry Carr, a U.S. Marine Corps aviator, NASA astronaut and commander of the record-shattering Skylab 4 mission in 1973 and 1974. On Christmas 1973, “Dad would have an experience that day that only a very small number of humans have ever had . . . the Earth, to himself, in a moment of reckoning, wonder and profound realization,” Jeff Carr said.

Premier Multi-User Spaceport is Home to Diverse Activities

Premier Multi-User Spaceport is Home to Diverse Activities

On Aug. 14, 2017, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It was a commercial resupply mission delivering supplies to the International Space Station. Four days later, the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M lifted off on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.