50 years ago: The flight plan is set

Imagine it not as a sure thing, this first shot at the moon, a myriad of tasks still coming… Read more 50 years ago: The flight plan is set

Stable One

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

Fifty years ago today, May 22, 1969: Snoopy swings low over the moon Go/no go? This is the… Read more 50 years ago: The wild gyration

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”

The Apollo 10 Lunar Module, Snoopy. The real story why it didn’t land. It certainly made a good story, but… Read more An Apollo 10 story not fit to print

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

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 9, over the Pacific near the end of its 151st orbit, fired its big… Read more Fifty years and nearly forgotten

Spider flies free This is it, the big day, fifty years ago, Apollo 9’s fifth flight day, the lunar… Read more 50 years ago: The adventures of Spider & Gumdrop

Rusty Schweickart tests the Lunar Module handrails We’re now on Day Four of our Apollo 9 flight, and spirits… Read more Fifty years ago: Apollo’s first spacewalk