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Breakfast on launch day, 28 November 1983
#OTD 42 years ago, the STS-9/Spacelab-1 crew woke up around 4 hours and 20 minutes before launch, had a preflight breakfast (or lunch?) and suited up.
More pics 👇
🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA... #Spacelab1
#OTD 42 years ago, the STS-9/Spacelab-1 crew woke up around 4 hours and 20 minutes before launch, had a preflight breakfast (or lunch?) and suited up.
More pics 👇
🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA... #Spacelab1
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Breakfast on launch day, 28 November 1983
#OTD 42 years ago, the STS-9/Spacelab-1 crew woke up around 4 hours and 20 minutes before launch, had a preflight breakfast (or lunch?) and suited up.
More pics 👇
🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA... #Spacelab1
#OTD 42 years ago, the STS-9/Spacelab-1 crew woke up around 4 hours and 20 minutes before launch, had a preflight breakfast (or lunch?) and suited up.
More pics 👇
🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA... #Spacelab1
Now 42 years on...
Spacelab-1: 40 years on
Forty years ago this month, the first European-built Spacelab was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on board Space Shuttle Columbia. Also on board was Ulf Merbold, who became ESA's first as...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Now 42 years on...
The STR became the 'ESA Journal' after just two years. This new collection consolidates the existing ESA Journal series, giving access to an unbroken line of ESA's S&T publishing from 1975 up to the final volume of the ESA Journal in 1994! #50YearsOfESA
🔗 historicalarchives.esa.int/esa-str-fore...
🔗 historicalarchives.esa.int/esa-str-fore...
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The STR became the 'ESA Journal' after just two years. This new collection consolidates the existing ESA Journal series, giving access to an unbroken line of ESA's S&T publishing from 1975 up to the final volume of the ESA Journal in 1994! #50YearsOfESA
🔗 historicalarchives.esa.int/esa-str-fore...
🔗 historicalarchives.esa.int/esa-str-fore...
😜 Duh, that's actually 37 years ago! We were looking at a tweet from 2023! 😆
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
😜 Duh, that's actually 37 years ago! We were looking at a tweet from 2023! 😆
😎 What was unique about this meeting in Paris in 1977, other than it being number one? And was it really the first anyway?
😎 Get the answers here and see key moments captured by the ESA photographers 👇
historicalarchives.esa.int/1977-and-fir...
😎 Get the answers here and see key moments captured by the ESA photographers 👇
historicalarchives.esa.int/1977-and-fir...
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
😎 What was unique about this meeting in Paris in 1977, other than it being number one? And was it really the first anyway?
😎 Get the answers here and see key moments captured by the ESA photographers 👇
historicalarchives.esa.int/1977-and-fir...
😎 Get the answers here and see key moments captured by the ESA photographers 👇
historicalarchives.esa.int/1977-and-fir...
