*** It’s another day, April 23, 1972, out last one on the surface, and our third and final moonwalk.  Of… Read more Apollo 16: At ‘House Rock’

*** “OK, Houston.  We’re underway.”  It’s shortly after noon, Eastern time on Earth, April 22, 1972, and after 52 min.… Read more Apollo 16: A ride up Stone Mountain

*** Charlie, it was going so well, right on the timeline.  We’re coming up on two-and-a-half hours into our first… Read more Apollo 16’s first moonwalk: “Something’s happened here.”

*** Coming around the edge of the moon at the start of our 13th revolution, We’re John Young and Charlie… Read more Apollo 16: The wave off

*** Hey, Charlie, T. K., get up, time to shine — 7:49 a.m.  It’s April 16, 1972, and today we’re… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 16 lifts off for the highlands

*** In the first months of the third year of the 1970s, eleven years since the flight of Yuri Gagarin,… Read more 50 years ago: A lull in space exploration?

*** 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’