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55 years ago: The push to the moon begins with Apollo 7

Posted on October 11, 2023 by etiptree

Apollo 7’s S-IVB upper stage, after launch used as a rendezvous target. On a lunar mission the Lunar module will… Read more 55 years ago: The push to the moon begins with Apollo 7

50 years ago: Skylab 3 ends pace-setting flight

Posted on September 25, 2023 by etiptree

September 25, 1973: The Skylab 3 Command Module is hoisted aboard the USS New Orleans after a record flight 59… Read more 50 years ago: Skylab 3 ends pace-setting flight

Forty years ago: The STS-8 ‘Night Flight’ lands

Posted on September 5, 2023 by etiptree

Sept 5, 1983: Challenger approaches Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, completing the first night landing of the… Read more Forty years ago: The STS-8 ‘Night Flight’ lands

Forty years ago: STS-8 creates ‘rocket dawn’

Posted on August 30, 2023 by etiptree

Aug. 30, 1983: Challenger provides a false dawn as it makes the first night launch of the Shuttle program. *****… Read more Forty years ago: STS-8 creates ‘rocket dawn’

Astronaut Karol “Bo” Bobko, 85, dies

Posted on August 20, 2023 by etiptree

Bo Bobko, who served with NASA from 1969 until 1988. ***** It’s April 17, 1985, flight day six aboard Discovery… Read more Astronaut Karol “Bo” Bobko, 85, dies

50 years ago: Skylab gains a new sunshield

Posted on August 6, 2023 by etiptree

Skylab sports a new sunshield, one that would stabilize temperatures inside the station at 75 degrees (F). The second crew… Read more 50 years ago: Skylab gains a new sunshield

50 years ago: Skylab 3 launches into trouble

Posted on July 28, 2023 by etiptree

A leaky ship. The Skylab 3 Apollo successfully docked to the space station on July 28, 1973, despite a propellant… Read more 50 years ago: Skylab 3 launches into trouble

Forty years ago: STS-7; the ‘wave-off’

Posted on June 24, 2023 by etiptree

June 24, 1983: Waved off from landing in Florida, Challenger touches down at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ***** We’re… Read more Forty years ago: STS-7; the ‘wave-off’

June 22, 1983: STS-7 conducts rendezvous tests

Posted on June 22, 2023 by etiptree

Forty years ago: Challenger as seen from the SPAS platform which it deployed and later retrieved after a day of… Read more June 22, 1983: STS-7 conducts rendezvous tests

June 22, 1973: First Skylab crew returns

Posted on June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 by etiptree

Fifty years ago: The first Skylab crew, led by Pete Conrad (at right on the steps), move from their Apollo… Read more June 22, 1973: First Skylab crew returns

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