A chain of errors leading to the launch of Apollo 13 * If NASA hadn’t decided in 1965 it wanted… Read more Fifty years ago: If

* * “And we’ve got a long day ahead of us.”         That’s what Pete Conrad says                    back at the Lunar… Read more Leaving the moon — a second time

Halfway on our way to the moon                           something is about to happen               that did not happen           on the previous Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: the hybrid trajectory

*             We’re going to the moon again.                                     We, the crew of Apollo 12.                                                 We’re going to the moon — maybe.… Read more 50 years ago: Triggered lightning

Aleksei Leonov, 1934 – 2019 You found yourself in a helluva spot, even if it wasn’t a spot, no place… Read more Tribute to Aleksei Leonov

July 25: Epilogue Fifty years ago,            the crew was back,                  Mission Control was silence, the great deed done,… Read more Apollo 11: Still go for TLI

It’s mission day nine.  It won’t last long. We’ll be back on Earth before day is done. So we hope!… Read more Apollo 11: EI to Earth