Dec. 7, 1972: After a 2 hr. 40 min. delay, Apollo 17 is launch on the last mission to the… Read more 50 years ago: The last Apollo moonshot

Fifty years ago, Nov. 11: Columbia deploys its first communications satellite, SBS-3, just hours after launch on the first operational… Read more STS-5: A second Shuttle inaugural

*** If the the righthand hatch of Gemini 4 didn’t seal, Jim McDivitt and Ed White, who’d just completed the… Read more Jim McDivitt & the art of analytics

*** You and I Become we And we are Wally Schirra, pilot of Sigma 7, Mercury-Atlas (MA)-8, The third Mercury… Read more 60 years ago: The textbook flight

*** Two days?  Three days?  More? The debate had been going on since plans were first developed for the “group… Read more Vostok 3 & 4: A hand of space poker

*** The news broke across America before dawn on August 12, 1962, in a wave of surprise — no, make… Read more Vostok 3 & 4, sixty years ago: Is R for Rendezvous?

*** “Welcome back to Earth.  That was beautiful,” Capcom Brewster Shaw calls.  We’ve just rolled to stop at Edwards Air… Read more Forty years ago: A Fourth-Of-July to remember

*** This could be big trouble, ol’ buddy.  After trying to close the big payload bay doors in a test,… Read more STS-4: The case of the crooked door