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lastlib

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7. Yeah, I mentioned that, but wasn't sure.....

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #6)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:00 AM

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...(and couldn't verify directly) that it was actually ship-to-ship, without ground connection. I was only eight at the time, and my memory of the details of what went on are hazy to non-existent.

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This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA (ISS to Artemis) [View all] Swede Yesterday OP

That's a pretty cool milestone. nt Nittersing Yesterday #1

I never had thought about it but I suspose I had assumed they could always communite riversedge Yesterday #2

I would have thought there would have been displacedvermoter Yesterday #3

I have to challenge this... lastlib Yesterday #4

Later that decade, Gemini VII and VI... Kid Berwyn Yesterday #6

Yeah, I mentioned that, but wasn't sure..... lastlib Yesterday #7

Good point about ship-to-ship vs ground stations 'n' satellites... Kid Berwyn Yesterday #9

I have vivid memory of the Apollo-Soyuz handshake! lastlib Yesterday #10

A NASA Rabbit Hole Kid Berwyn Yesterday #11

Oh, god, YES! lastlib Yesterday #13

this is the right answer RT Atlanta Yesterday #15

Low earth orbit vs space. Swede Yesterday #17

Plus, wouldn't every ship that docked with the ISS have communicated?? IrishAfricanAmerican 20 hrs ago #18

Don't the ships docking with the ISS communicate as well? tinrobot Yesterday #5

That's what I was thinking too. Mysterian Yesterday #12

Spacecraft have certainly communicated with one another in space before now, but EarlG Yesterday #8

I don't think this was really a direct ship-to-ship communication. LudwigPastorius Yesterday #14

Hailing frequencies open! SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #16