The lunar module atop the Saturn third stage   It’s your turn to be a test pilot, and fly a… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 9 is launched

  In the final days of 1968, photos from the flight of Apollo 8 were released revealing what soon would… Read more Apollo 8: One last glance back

The Apollo 8 crew after splashdown, 50 years ago today.   It is the morning after the morning after Christmas. … Read more And they were returned to us

The view of the moon as Apollo 8 sped away from it on Christmas.   And so it came to… Read more Fifty years ago: TEI

  Christmas Eve, early morning darkness over the United States.  And over the moon, too, as Apollo 8, accelerated by… Read more 50 years ago: the moon & Earth

The earth from Apollo 8 on December 23, 1968   It happens without sight, sound or sensation.  It happens on… Read more Into the lunar sphere

Fifty years ago this morning, December 21 . . .   It begins as the faint gurgle and hydraulic hum,… Read more TLI: First launch to the moon

Fifty years ago today, December 15, precisely at 7 p.m. EST, NASA began bringing Saturn V #503 to life, the… Read more Fifty years ago: The countdown begins

Fifty years ago today   On Apollo 7’s 263th revolution of the earth, over Hawaii, fifty years ago today, October… Read more Opening the road to the moon

First TV from an American spaceflight Fifty years ago today, October 14, on the 45th orbit of Apollo 7, as… Read more Lights, camera, action!