Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...
When first proposed in 1959, the spacecraft that would eventually become known as the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) was envisioned as a three-man Earth-orbital vehicle upgradable to ...
Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. In the ...
Fifty years ago and a quarter of a million miles away, three astronauts carried out the dress rehearsal for one of the greatest events in human history. On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 lifted off from ...
Apollo 9 mission played a crucial role in NASA's lunar landing goal, testing essential spacecraft functions in Earth's orbit. Apollo 9 launched 50 years ago, on March 3, 1969, and it might be the most ...
One year before humanity's first lunar landing, the moon must have still felt quite far away. On July 20, 1968, the pieces for Apollo 11 were starting to come together, but the mission itself was ...
Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Though it was the first manned mission of the program and the was ...
The Apollo missions conducted between 1967 and 1972 marked the beginning of our expansion beyond Earth. The words "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind." uttered by Neil ...
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