J January 16, 2003: Columbia is launched on the STS-107 mission. ***** Two Space Shuttles both sit on Launch Pad… Read more A tale of two Shuttles (part one)
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Fifty years ago: The last moonwalk
Dec. 13, 1972: Jack Schmitt walks around the split boulder explored at North Massif mountain on Apollo 17’s final moonwalk.… Read more Fifty years ago: The last moonwalk
STS-5: (Almost) a spacewalk
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
Apollo 15: The collapsed parachute
***** It can happen in the first minute or, just when you think you’ve got it made, in the last… Read more Apollo 15: The collapsed parachute
July 29: Apollo 15 enters orbit
****** Are you ready? Are you ready, my friend, for the moon? We’re almost there — let’s kick the door open on… Read more July 29: Apollo 15 enters orbit
50 years ago: Launch of Apollo 15, the first great expedition to the moon
**** Dawn, July 26, 1971: Look at it out there, Saturn V #510. Our Saturn V. Looks just like the nine that have… Read more 50 years ago: Launch of Apollo 15, the first great expedition to the moon
50 years ago: A new endurance record
For more than two weeks the peoples of the Soviet Union had thrilled to the flight, launched June 6, of Soyuz… Read more 50 years ago: A new endurance record
60 Years ago: The first American
* * Some say it looks crude, small, and simple, yet the Mercury capsule embodied an engineering beauty. Everything needed to… Read more 60 Years ago: The first American
50 years ago: Apollo 14 lands on the moon
* It’s February 5, 1971 — and it’s going to be a long one for us, the crew of Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 14 lands on the moon
60 Years ago: A wild ride aboard MR -2
It’s January 31, 1961, exactly three years since the United States launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, just 6 ft.… Read more 60 Years ago: A wild ride aboard MR -2
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