October 10, 1984: Kathy Sullivan and Dave Leestma with the helmets they will wear on a spacewalk ***** Wake up… Read more 40 years ago: 13th Shuttle flight harvests data about the Earth

Oct. 5, 1984: The Earth Radiation Budge Satellite on the end of the Shuttle’s robot arm. ***** He scoffs at… Read more 40 Years ago: Challenger takes flight on “Lucky 13”

Sept. 5, 1984: Discovery touches down with a hydraulic leak in its righthand main landing gear. ***** It’s our seventh… Read more Forty years ago: Discovery landing not quite routine

Forty years ago: Ice blocks the water dump ports of Discovery. On reentry, it could break off and damage the… Read more Discovery’s first flight: Tackling the ice

A test solar-power wing rises from Discovery’s payload bay during the 12th Shuttle flight, 40 years ago. ***** So far,… Read more Discovery’s first flight: The ice cometh

August 30, 1984: Discovery takes flight on its first mission and the 12th of the Shuttle program. ***** Here we… Read more Forty years ago: Discovery flies at last

Joe Engle in his Apollo spacesuit. ***** They flew in from the east, high to avoid the mountains before making… Read more Joe Engle, Aug. 26, 1932 – July 10, 2024

***** More abstract art from the Flight Plan. REV 10    94:00  eat period …….95:00  CDR & LMP don LCG’s … Read more Apollo 11 at 55: July 20 — the landing

*** It was LOI Day, July 19, 1969, Lunar Orbit Insertion Day when Apollo 11 entered lunar orbit, one day… Read more Apollo 11 at 55: Entering lunar orbit

***** ABSTRACT ART: The Apollo 11 Flight Plan * Launch and Earth Parking Orbit  ………..Nominal launch time is 9:32 EDT… Read more Apollo 11 at 55: Launch, July 16, 1969