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At the dawn of the Space Age, the various branches of the US military all had their own grandiose plans for dominating space. Although the founding […]
As the year 1966 progressed, NASA was pushing hard to keep to its schedule so that Apollo could land on the Moon before the end of […]
After the Soviet Luna 10 spacecraft became the first to enter orbit around the Moon on April 3, 1966 (see “Luna 10: The First Lunar Satellite”), […]
While space enthusiasts tend to focus their attention on spacecraft and the rockets used to launch them, there is a lot more that is needed to […]
The year 1966 was a pivotal one in the race to reach the Moon. Testing of the Apollo spacecraft in preparation for the first manned flight […]
By the summer of 1966 it had already been five years since the late President John F. Kennedy had committed the United States to a manned […]
The year 1966 was a busy one for the US space program and its push to reach the Moon by the end of the decade. With […]
As 1966 began, NASA and its contractors were pushing forward with the first test flights of actual Apollo hardware in hopes of launching the first manned […]
In this age with a permanent human presence in orbit currently provided by the International Space Station (ISS), it seems hard to recall a time when […]
After a decades-long hiatus, we have finally restarted our exploration of the lunar surface using automated landers and rovers. While these missions almost make landing on […]
During the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union managed to score a long string of space firsts taking an early lead in the […]
As 1966 began, NASA was well on its way towards its goal of reaching the Moon before the end of the decade. During 1965, a total […]
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