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Even after all these years, I still remember May 25, 1973. I was eleven years old at the time and within weeks of finishing fifth grade. […]
When space enthusiasts think about the Apollo program, they instantly recall the lunar missions which landed a total of a dozen NASA astronauts on the Moon. […]
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 […]
At this time there are several new heavy-lift launch vehicles being developed in the United States such as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the recently announced Vulcan being […]
I still remember the night of December 6, 1972. I was in fifth grade at the time and my parents let me stay up well past […]
With the recent Orion EFT-1 test flight and the anticipated test flights of the Boeing and SpaceX craft supporting NASA’s commercial crew transport program, these are […]
Life sometimes presents us with some interesting coincidences and I stumbled upon one in the weeks leading up to the first test flight of NASA’s Orion […]
After years of effort, NASA has finally chosen a pair of contractors to build replacements for the now-retired Space Shuttle to send Americans into Earth orbit […]
At the same time the first Apollo launch abort test flight with the Little Joe II was taking place (see The First Apollo-Little Joe II Launch), […]
A few years ago as I was going through some old stuff I had recently dug out of storage, I pulled out what turned into an […]