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Apollo 17, EVA #1: The first of the last moonwalks

Posted on December 11, 2022 by etiptree

Fifty years ago: A few of Challenger from behind it, with South Massif looming in the distance. *** The sun… Read more Apollo 17, EVA #1: The first of the last moonwalks

Fifty years ago: The last Apollo lands on the moon

Posted on December 11, 2022 by etiptree

Challenger on the moon: The Apollo 17 landed on the moon at Taurus-Littrow on Dec. 11, 1972, for a 75-hr.… Read more Fifty years ago: The last Apollo lands on the moon

Fifty years ago: Apollo 17 enters lunar orbit

Posted on December 10, 2022 by etiptree

Destination Taurus-Littrow: A view of the valley Apollo 17 aimed to explore, taken as it passed over the site. The… Read more Fifty years ago: Apollo 17 enters lunar orbit

Apollo 17: TLI-ing through sunrise

Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by etiptree

Fifty years ago: The Apollo 17 photo of the full Earth, showing the Middle East (at top), Africa and Antarctica.… Read more Apollo 17: TLI-ing through sunrise

50 years ago: The last Apollo moonshot

Posted on December 6, 2022 by etiptree

Dec. 7, 1972: After a 2 hr. 40 min. delay, Apollo 17 is launch on the last mission to the… Read more 50 years ago: The last Apollo moonshot

Artemis One: A personal note

Posted on November 16, 2022 by etiptree

Apollo 17 on the pad: A photo I took with my Kodak Instamatic camera. *** “We’re go for TLI.” For… Read more Artemis One: A personal note

STS-5: (Almost) a spacewalk

Posted on November 15, 2022 by etiptree

Forty-years ago: Bill Lenoir suited up with no place to go. *** *** Today, November 15, 1982, after a day’s… Read more STS-5: (Almost) a spacewalk

STS-5: A second Shuttle inaugural

Posted on November 11, 2022 by etiptree

Fifty years ago, Nov. 11: Columbia deploys its first communications satellite, SBS-3, just hours after launch on the first operational… Read more STS-5: A second Shuttle inaugural

Jim McDivitt & the art of analytics

Posted on October 18, 2022October 21, 2022 by etiptree

*** If the the righthand hatch of Gemini 4 didn’t seal, Jim McDivitt and Ed White, who’d just completed the… Read more Jim McDivitt & the art of analytics

60 years ago: The textbook flight

Posted on October 3, 2022 by etiptree

*** You and I Become we And we are Wally Schirra, pilot of Sigma 7, Mercury-Atlas (MA)-8, The third Mercury… Read more 60 years ago: The textbook flight

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