*** Welcome aboard STS-3, the Shuttle’s third flight and first of 1982.  We’re working through a blur of days aboard… Read more Forty years ago, STS-3: The wave off

*** Now this is a pleasant way to start our launch day — March 22, 1982 — we sleep in… Read more Forty years ago: The third Shuttle launch

* * “Delta 7, Delta 7, Canary Capcom.   Deke, what is your status?” “Stand by one.”   You are… Read more 60 Years ago: Deke Slayton & Delta 7

**** The long wait.  It’d started at the end of 1961, extended past the January 27 scrub, and now extended… Read more 60 years ago: ‘A real fireball’

* * Delays — the delays in the launch of John Glenn and Mercury Atlas (MA)-6 might at last be… Read more Jan. 27: Not a day to fly

*** OK, this is it.  This is November 29, 1961.  This is Mercury Atlas (MA) -5, the dress rehearsal for… Read more 60 years ago: Enos in orbit in Mercury test

**** Can you feel it? — today, November 12, 1981, is the day. It feels real.  We’re going to make… Read more Forty years ago: Twice upon a time

* * It’s time.  Time for the Atlas booster to prove itself — or Project Mercury will fall into a… Read more 60 years ago: Project Mercury tries for orbit

*****             On the evening of August 5, 1961, President John F. Kennedy is informed of evidence that the Soviets have… Read more 60 years ago: The day-long flight of Vostok 2 and Cosmonaut G. Titov

****             On the morning of August 5, 1971, we, Apollo 15, are headed home.  It’s 14 hrs. since we left lunar… Read more Aug. 5, 1971: Apollo 15 makes the first walk in deep space.