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Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains

Photo of the Day Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids -- because shower meteors all appear to come from a radiant toward Gemini. [...]

Did an astronaut almost float away from the Space Shuttle?!

By Overlook Horizon|2020-11-03T08:04:09-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Categories: Space Education|Tags: almost, astronaut, astronaut float, astronaut training, challenger, did, ed white, eva, eva spacewalk, eva suit, everyday astronaut, extravehicular, extravehicular activity, float away, gemini, International Space Station, iss, Live, manned maneuvering unit, manned mobility unit, mmu, mobility, nasa, OLHZN, Overlook Horizon, scott manley, space, space shuttle, space shuttle challenger, space suit, spaceflight, spacewalk, SpaceX, sts 41 c, sts 41c, tethered, tim dodd, untethered, untethered eva, untethered spacewalk|

On NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-41C, NASA astronaut George Nelson, had a close call while wearing NASA's Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) which was a self contained rocket pack that astronauts could wear on their EVA suit backpacks to perform untethered EVA spacewalks. While trying to retrieve a broken satellite, the astronaut and Mission Control struggled [...]