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The Apollo 11 mission of July 1969 is without a doubt the earliest historical event that I can clearly recall and appreciate. At the age of […]
With the first three crewed Apollo missions successfully meeting their objectives over the course of just five months, by the spring of 1969 it was beginning […]
Probably one of the more overlooked Apollo missions was that of Apollo 9 launched on March 3, 1969. Coming just a couple of months after the […]
In the opening narrative of the scifi TV classic, Star Trek, the mission statement of the USS Enterprise concluded with “to boldly go where no man […]
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. […]
Space enthusiasts fondly remember the Saturn V rocket which sent nine Apollo crews to the Moon including a dozen astronauts who actually landed on the lunar […]
As the year 1967 began, NASA had ambitious plans in place to land astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade. Unfortunately, the loss […]
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 […]