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If NASA had gone with their design, it would have been 50 years ahead of its time.

James Alton McDivitt lived a full and long life and today is celebrated, as he sadly passed away at the age of 93. James was a test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs and grew up in Kalamazoo.

"Houston, we've had a problem." Spoken by Astronaut Jim Lovell in real life, it was communicated to Col. Jack Lousma. Lousma, a native of Grand Rapids who grew up in Ann Arbor, was the CAPCOM recipient of the communication from space. CAPCOM is the acronym for Capsule Communicator.

According to NASA's description, this is a hi-resolution images from outer space of Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. You can see the sediments swirl in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. "The photograph taken from Landsat 9 image of both Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, from Oct. 31, 2021. The Great Lakes serve as sources of freshwater, recreational activity, transport, and habitat for the upper-midwestern US, and water quality remains a high priority."

The launch of a NASA rocket on Saturday night may be visible in West Michigan depending on weather conditions.

Grand Ledge native, Terry Himes, was part of the team that helped NASA's Perseverance rover touchdown on Mars last week.

I saw a tweet from the Kalamazoo Air Zoo about Thursday's Mars space landing. The tweet invites people to come to the Air Zoo and watch the live-stream of the event at 2:15 pm.

A Grand Rapids native has been chosen as part of the NASA team that aims to return astronauts to the moon and may get the chance to walk in the lunar surface.

This really does work... but why?

A Michigan native will be part of historic moment in space on October 21st, 2019.