*** Two days?  Three days?  More? The debate had been going on since plans were first developed for the “group… Read more Vostok 3 & 4: A hand of space poker

*** The news broke across America before dawn on August 12, 1962, in a wave of surprise — no, make… Read more Vostok 3 & 4, sixty years ago: Is R for Rendezvous?

*** “Welcome back to Earth.  That was beautiful,” Capcom Brewster Shaw calls.  We’ve just rolled to stop at Edwards Air… Read more Forty years ago: A Fourth-Of-July to remember

*** This could be big trouble, ol’ buddy.  After trying to close the big payload bay doors in a test,… Read more STS-4: The case of the crooked door

*** When ol’ Wally Schirra named his Mercury capsule, he chose the name Sigma 7, sigma the Greek letter that… Read more Forty years ago: The sigma of STS-4

*** You’re Scott Carpenter, explorer, ready to unleash your curiosity.   They’ve loaded your Mercury Atlas (MA-7) flight with experiments… Read more 60 years ago: Aurora 7 & ‘double authority’

*** “Good morning, Apollo 16,” the capcom calls.  It’s April 27, 1972. Most of our mission, step by step, is… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 16 makes a splash

*** There he goes, floating out the open hatch of the cone-shaped Command Module, Caspar.  It’s T.K. “Ken” Mattingly’s moment… Read more Apollo 16: Reaching for the ring

*** It’s another day, April 23, 1972, out last one on the surface, and our third and final moonwalk.  Of… Read more Apollo 16: At ‘House Rock’

*** “OK, Houston.  We’re underway.”  It’s shortly after noon, Eastern time on Earth, April 22, 1972, and after 52 min.… Read more Apollo 16: A ride up Stone Mountain