Day: July 26, 2025

On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first return-to-flight mission following the Columbia disaster that killed seven crewmembers a little over two years earlier. A few seconds after launching from Kennedy Space Center, a huge bird flew straight into the top of the shuttle’s external fuel tank. The bird didn’t cause …

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Senegal has officially joined the Artemis Accords, marked by a signing ceremony held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2025. The event brought together key representatives from both NASA and Senegal, including Brian Hughes, NASA Chief of Staff Department of State Bureau of African Affairs Senior Bureau Official Jonathan Pratt; Maram Kairé, …

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On July 25, 1984, the Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to embark on a spacewalk, also known as an extravehicular activity EVA. She spent three hours and 35 minutes doing welding experiments outside Russia’s Salyut 7 space station with her colleague Vladimir Dzhanibekov. They were cutting and welding metal and testing out …

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