http://www.collectspace.com/ This feed provides the latest entries from collectSPACE.com's Today in Space History weblog. Feeder 4.9.1(6430) Mac App Store Version; Mac OS X Version 26.5.2 (Build 25F84) https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en Copyright 2015 collectSPACE contact@collectspace.com contact@collectspace.com Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:35:34 -0500 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:35:34 -0500 http://www.collectspace.com/images/collectspace_logo_source-sm.jpg http://www.collectspace.com/ 144 32 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1030261635 At Home in Space" displays artifacts from the space shuttle-era, as we learned how to go from visiting to living on orbit. The exhibition also looks forward to the plans for a moon base as part of NASA's Artemis program.]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:35:01 -0500 48FBAFC0-0596-41E4-8ABE-9C261CAF2F6F https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1029261950 conducted the 100th U.S. EVA from the ISS as counted while a space shuttle was absent.]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:50:32 -0500 AA95013B-1D9B-4974-AC99-20E44CA04434 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1028261945 purple and chrome livery and name. The "Spaceship Apeiron" is targeted to fly its first suborbital flight customers by next spring. The successor to SpaceShipTwo, the Delta-class Apeiron was named by an online vote based on an ancient Greek word for boundless. The other four choices were Horizon, Explorer and Ascend.]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:45:24 -0500 95035617-4CC4-409A-964A-F7322F1D4ABF https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1028261415 Jet Propulsion Lab has provided artifacts and expert-led interactives for the center's display.]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:15:26 -0500 920A16DE-1229-4C4B-B535-C9577F17529F https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1027260000 he came to chronicle Hansen's story in the astronaut's first-person voice, despite being limited to a couple of in-person meetings and Earth-based phone calls.]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:35 -0500 BCE757B6-8026-4686-8868-6920DC6A9CAD https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1022261935 Bill Thornton's STS-8 crew-signed cover (a stamped and dated envelope, in collector-speak) kept the number of these otherwise plentiful STS-8 collectibles to their original autographed count of 10. It commanded $8,161 at auction.]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:35:41 -0500 2C0D6836-C332-4D55-971D-6E6335F5C4C8 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1016261400 Artemis Adventure in LEGO Bricks traveling exhibition. The hands-on experience, opening Sunday (Oct. 18), combines moon base-themed build challenges with large LEGO-built models of Artemis rockets, spacecraft and spacesuits. The toy brick exhibition will be at The Henry Ford until Jan 3.]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:00:26 -0500 690E7455-F13D-4C20-BB99-DAA964801E31 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1013261200 new record holder for the distance driven on another world. Perseverance roved past Opportunity's 28.10 miles (45.22 km) on Sunday (Oct. 11). Still the most recent rover to arrive on the Red Planet, the key to Perseverance's quick pace is its self-driving system.]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:15 -0500 359D95C2-9B7A-4FAB-AE40-1CAF15D68AC3 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1012261135 are available as displays from Mini Museum. The $29 to $199 presentations preserve the wood from a young giant sequoia that was grown from one of the hundreds of seeds flown to the moon aboard NASA's Artemis I uncrewed mission, November to December 2022.]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:35:58 -0500 5F2C6BDA-A427-4DC7-B011-B7A91F1C4AF5 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1007262200 spent 30 days on the International Space Station. The eight pieces are now among just the pocketful of U.S. coins flown in space, following a NASA restriction in 1972.]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:00:56 -0500 5F50A5DB-7BFC-44E3-9E4D-0142A8E9CB26 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1005260800 cut from leftover structural panels that have been embedded in acrylic as limited edition displays.]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:06 -0500 C6DD2BD6-F87C-48A4-846A-752B2095D408 https://www.collectspace.com/index.html#1003260900 Milt Windler died on Thursday (Oct. 1) at 94. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his part in saving Apollo 13, Maroon Flight also worked Mercury and Gemini recoveries and later helped develop the Canadarm.]]> Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:45 -0500 AE011CBD-782C-4866-BE72-B3C1233E789C