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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 […]
Early 1967 proved to be a disastrous time for both the American and Soviet manned space programs with the loss of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White […]
After the tragic loss of the Apollo 1 crew on January 27, 1967, NASA’s goal to land a man on the Moon before the end of […]
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 […]
The launch of the first Falcon Heavy developed and built by aerospace upstart, SpaceX founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk, was accompanied with headlines that […]
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. […]
While NASA struggled to address issues with the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, its automated missions to the Moon during 1966 and 1967 […]
For long-time space enthusiasts like myself, the US Army’s Redstone missile figures prominently in the early history of the Space Age (see “Redstone: The Missile That […]
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 […]
As the old saying goes, “the third time’s the charm”. This is likely an American variation of the British phrase “third time lucky” (which itself is […]
As anyone with even a passing knowledge of spaceflight can tell you, space is an unforgiving place. While the majority of space missions launched today are […]
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