Don’t. Don’t speak of ‘the right stuff.’ That phrase belonged to Tom Wolfe, not Chuck Yeager. * Use other words:… Read more Chuck Yeager (1923 – 2020)
50 years ago: Thundering (briefly) to life
* * Ignition! Fifty years ago today, September 30, the five F-1 engines of the final Saturn V built, SA-515, roared… Read more 50 years ago: Thundering (briefly) to life
50 years ago: Destination Museum not Moon
* * Gone. After a summer of rumors, proposals, alternate plans. Gone. After another round of budget cuts. Gone. The final two Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: Destination Museum not Moon
Rene Carpenter, 1928-2020
*** With Annie Glenn’s death this May of Covid-19, Rene Carpenter was the last of the Mercury –don’t call them… Read more Rene Carpenter, 1928-2020
Apollo-Soyuz: A close (missed) call
** Gus Grissom, commander of the first Apollo, said that disaster can strike any mission, the last as well as… Read more Apollo-Soyuz: A close (missed) call
45 years ago: Full circle
Circling the earth aboard Apollo-Soyuz, we’ve come full circle, no better symbol than Deke Slayton himself, one of the original… Read more 45 years ago: Full circle
45 years ago: Apollo-Soyuz — Passages
It’s July 18, 1975, the fourth day of our flight, and the only full day we are linked with the… Read more 45 years ago: Apollo-Soyuz — Passages
July 17, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz — “Capture”
On July 17th, the show begins — and we know this joint mission is a show of politics and national… Read more July 17, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz — “Capture”
45 years ago: A flight with no number
Forty-five years ago, this is how we flew. Come aboard Apollo. Come aboard the last, with the last of the… Read more 45 years ago: A flight with no number
The ghost of Apollo 13
* After oxygen tank #2 blew the Apollo 13 mission apart, imagine a difference course. In an alternate universe, a ghost… Read more The ghost of Apollo 13
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