* * 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.

* *             Landing day, April 14, 1981.  We wake a half hour early and begin our day even before Mission Control… Read more 40 years ago: Columbia lands