50 years ago: LOI day

It’s LOI Day — Lunar Orbit Insertion LOI day — definitely a different feel to it, a tension in the… Read more 50 years ago: LOI day

July 18, 1969: Into the moon’s embrace

The LM instrument panels and windows Flight day three, continuing our translunar coast, rolling against the sun, barbeque mode… Read more July 18, 1969: Into the moon’s embrace

The Translunar Insertion (TLI) burn of the Saturn third stage sending us toward the moon is a day behind,… Read more July 17, 1969: Halfway to the moon

Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins (L to R) answer to the press and public, as they will the rest of their… Read more Two days until launch and . . .

The front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer the next day. July 13, 1969 — Luna 15 leaves earth… Read more 50 years ago: Luna races the moon

Let the countdown commence, — commence as in commencement — the human race about to graduate from Planet Earth, so… Read more 50 years ago: Let the countdown begin

Apollo 10 approaches splashdown, 50 years ago today. It landed upright, a position called Stable One. The Apollo capsules could… Read more Stable One

The launch of Apollo 10 on May 18, 1969 Synch your straps tight, perform status checks. We’re going to… Read more 50 years ago today: “Ten is go”

If she’d been a man. Maybe if she’d been born a generation later. Certainly if she’d been measured by her… Read more Geraldyn Cobb, 1931-2019

He numbered among the space pioneers, chosen in 1965 with the first five scientist astronauts whom no one at… Read more Owen K. Garriott, 1930-2019