Dick Gordon on an EVA during Gemini 11. Richard F. Gordon, member of the third group of astronauts, pilot… Read more “Ride ’em, cowboy!”
Category: Space
60 years ago: the Space Age begins
On October 4, 1957, Sputnik opened ‘The Space Age’ . . . So when did it end? Sixty years ago… Read more 60 years ago: the Space Age begins
Cassini goes rogue!
Something strange is happening at Saturn. Little more than 12 hours before NASA planned to send the Cassini probe plunging… Read more Cassini goes rogue!
A measure beyond months
Voyager’s 40th anniversary Don’t call it the Grand Tour. The Grand Tour, four spacecraft richly equipped, costing nearly a billion… Read more A measure beyond months
Rollout!
Fifty years ago Dawn always appears as the primeval hour, one suitable for giants and dinosaurs. And never more… Read more Rollout!
50th Anniversary of Apollo
*********** January 27, 1967 I would have just finished dinner, perhaps leaving a tough bit of salisbury… Read more 50th Anniversary of Apollo
50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 12 Nov. 11-15, 1966 Walking out to Pad 19, to the waiting Titan II, our Gemini… Read more 50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 11: Asleep in space
Fifty years ago… We’re flying over Houston, standing in the open hatch, floating above our seat two days after launch. … Read more Gemini 11: Asleep in space
50 years ago: Gemini 10
Gemini 10, John Young and Mike Collins, a standard three-day Gemini mission. Of course none of them are standard… Read more 50 years ago: Gemini 10
50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
Gemini 9 Exhausting. From the start. And now this. So much to do on short 72-hour Gemini missions. On… Read more 50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
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