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Gemini 7 as seen by Gemini 6 during the first space rendezvous - December 15, 1965 (xpost /r/space)

STS 1 Columbia Launch - April 12, 1981

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the lunar rover during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the “stripped down” rover is prior to loading up. Equipment later loaded onto the rover included the ground-controlled television assembly, the lunar communications relay unit, hi-gain antenna, low-gain antenna, aft tool pallet, lunar tools and scientific gear. This photograph was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. The mountain in the right background is the east end of South Massif. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module “Challenger” to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules “America” in lunar orbit.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Gemini 8 spacecraft prior to launch, March 16, 1966.

In the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building, space shuttle Discovery begins the slow rotation to a vertical position. The vehicle will be hoisted into high bay 1 for mating with the external tank and solid rocket boosters waiting on the mobile launcher platform.

A Soyuz-FG rocket bound for the International Space Station was rolled to the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome earlier today following weather delays caused by high winds.

Carrying the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft, three crewmembers for Expedition 47 and 48 are set to launch at 5:26pm EDT Friday, March 18. Alexei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams will spend 171 days at the orbiting laboratory, slightly shorter than a normal expedition increment due to launch schedules.

Soyuz TMA-20M is the final flight of the TMA-M series of spacecraft, which will be replaced by the Soyuz MS series in June.