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Kid Berwyn

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9. Good point about ship-to-ship vs ground stations 'n' satellites...

Reply to lastlib (Reply #7)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:48 AM

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Remember Apollo-Soyuz in 1975? Deke Slayton finally got to go into space at the cost of his leaving as head of the Astronaut Office at NASA -- clearing the way for solid rocket motors being OK'd as an integral part of the Shuttle launch system and now the Artemis booster. If you haven't read it, Joseph and Susan Trento tell the story in "Prescription for Disaster: From the Glory of Apollo to the Betrayal of the Shuttle."

Above Thomas Stafford (Apollo 10 lunar landing dry-run) and Aleksei Leonov (first man to walk in space) shake hands in the tunnel linking their two spacecraft. Interesting times to grow up, the Space Age.

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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 Wednesday OP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A NASA Rabbit Hole Kid Berwyn Wednesday #11

Oh, god, YES! lastlib Wednesday #13

this is the right answer RT Atlanta Wednesday #15

Low earth orbit vs space. Swede Wednesday #17

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

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

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

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

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

Hailing frequencies open! SocialDemocrat61 Wednesday #16