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Lifting off at 10:10am #OTD in 1981, Space Shuttle Columbia made its second trip to space for STS-2 with astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly on board. It was also Truly's birthday! What better way to celebrate than making your first trip to space. #HappyBirthday Richard Truly! #NASAhistory https://nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/1591448238686670848#m
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Gemini ✅ Next up, Apollo At 3:46 PM #OTD in 1966, the last mission of the ♊ Program, Gemini XII, launched from Cape Canaveral! Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin successfully docked with the Agena target vehicle and Aldrin performed 3 spacewalks. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3TsDAq3 #NASAhistory https://nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/1591170403048849423#m

55 Years Ago: Gemini XII Closes Out a Successful Program

The primary objectives of Project Gemini included proving the techniques required for the Apollo Program to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.
Kelli Mars (NASA)
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Voyager 1's Saturn #photography: 💯 @NASAVoyager 1 flew by Saturn #OTD in 1980, discovering 3 moons (Atlas, Prometheus & Pandora) and taking this shot as it sped by on its way out of our solar system. Learn more about Voyager's rendezvous with Saturn: https://go.nasa.gov/3UEm8jP #NASAhistory https://nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/1591475916806721538#m

Voyager - Saturn Approach

go.nasa.gov
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#OtD 19 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was executed a month after the Spanish civil war commenced. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

E39-40: The Spanish civil war – an introduction

Double podcast episode where we give a brief general overview of the Spanish civil war and revolution which broke out after the attempted military coup by right-wing general Francisco Franco 1936-1…
Working Class History
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#OtD 8 Aug 1942 Spanish civil war veteran Maria Perez Cruz was executed by the Franco regime on trumped up charges. A former nurse in the anarchist Iron Column militia, she was arrested in 1939 charged with various offences. More in this short biography: https://libcom.org/history/perez-maria-1917-1942-aka-la-jabalina

Perez, Maria, 1917-1942, aka La Jabalina

A short biography of Spanish anarchist Maria Perez, who fought with the Iron Column and was murdered by the Francoists in 1942
libcom.org
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