50 years ago: Apollo 13 takes flight

* It’s April 11th. It’s 1970. The fury and flood of activity to replace our Command Module pilot is over. We are a… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 13 takes flight

Down to the final hours

* At midnight, this day fifty years ago, the final countdown for Apollo 13 begins, without a final decision to… Read more Down to the final hours

* * A virus An exposure. Repeated blood tests And the test show no immunity. It sounds like current news,… Read more 50 years ago: No immunity

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

Welcome to the new decade. Welcome to the future: The year nineteen-seventy. The year and new decade are not even two weeks… Read more 50 years ago: The day Apollo died

* * It’s splash day, November 24, 1969, and we’re about four hours from Entry Interface where the Earth’s atmosphere… Read more 50 years ago: Splash!

* * “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

The Apollo 12 landing site, Surveyor crater center right. * Silent. Dead. It’s waited on the inner slope of a 630-ft.-wide, 50-ft.-deep… Read more 50 years ago this night, a spaceship lands