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

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