Circling the earth aboard Apollo-Soyuz, we’ve come full circle, no better symbol than Deke Slayton himself, one of the original… Read more 45 years ago: Full circle

            It’s July 18, 1975, the fourth day of our flight, and the only full day we are linked with the… Read more 45 years ago: Apollo-Soyuz — Passages

            On July 17th, the show begins — and we know this joint mission is a show of politics and national… Read more July 17, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz — “Capture”

*             After oxygen tank #2 blew the Apollo 13 mission apart, imagine a difference course.  In an alternate universe, a ghost… Read more The ghost of Apollo 13

*             Hang in there, it won’t be long, we’re told.  It’s now officially splashdown day, April 17, 1970.  We’re not sleeping, with… Read more 50 years ago: Splashdown day

*             It’s getting cold upstairs, in the Command Module, our “bedroom,” about 40 degrees. “It’s not uncomfortable at all in Aquarius,… Read more Staying the course home

*             We enter April 14, earth time.  For us aboard Apollo 13, days and dates have ceased.  There is only the track… Read more 50 years ago: Turning toward home

*             Flight Day 3 dawns, if that’s the word, aboard Apollo 13.  Our Commander, Jim Lovell, contacts Houston.  “We’re awake and getting… Read more A new mission

*             “Nothing much happened on the way to the Moon . . . which was exactly the way the Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: a routine day on the way to the moon