On October 4, 1957, Sputnik opened ‘The Space Age’ . . . So when did it end? Sixty years ago… Read more 60 years ago: the Space Age begins
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Cassini goes rogue!
Something strange is happening at Saturn. Little more than 12 hours before NASA planned to send the Cassini probe plunging… Read more Cassini goes rogue!
A measure beyond months
Voyager’s 40th anniversary Don’t call it the Grand Tour. The Grand Tour, four spacecraft richly equipped, costing nearly a billion… Read more A measure beyond months
Rollout!
Fifty years ago Dawn always appears as the primeval hour, one suitable for giants and dinosaurs. And never more… Read more Rollout!
50th Anniversary of Apollo
*********** January 27, 1967 I would have just finished dinner, perhaps leaving a tough bit of salisbury… Read more 50th Anniversary of Apollo
50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 12 Nov. 11-15, 1966 Walking out to Pad 19, to the waiting Titan II, our Gemini… Read more 50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 11: Asleep in space
Fifty years ago… We’re flying over Houston, standing in the open hatch, floating above our seat two days after launch. … Read more Gemini 11: Asleep in space
50 years ago: Gemini 10
Gemini 10, John Young and Mike Collins, a standard three-day Gemini mission. Of course none of them are standard… Read more 50 years ago: Gemini 10
50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
Gemini 9 Exhausting. From the start. And now this. So much to do on short 72-hour Gemini missions. On… Read more 50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
50 years ago today: Into the drink
Gemini 9 We’re button in our Gemini capsule, aiming 11:41 EDT launch. Two countdowns are underway at once. Over… Read more 50 years ago today: Into the drink
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