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The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by the assassination of prominent public figures, violent protests […]
This is truly a golden age for space enthusiasts. Not only is there an ever-expanding number of interesting government-sponsored and commercial space projects underway, but the […]
Probably the most dangerous part of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover all […]
As the year 1962 unfolded, NASA was beginning its series of crewed orbital spaceflights as part of the Mercury program. But with the crewed Gemini and […]
With the start of the Apollo program in 1960, a wide range of technologies and techniques needed to be developed to mount advanced missions beyond Earth […]
With the celebration of the anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, there have been many stories published about the efforts to return the crew back home […]
Archaeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of artifacts and other evidence of material culture. While normally one associates archaeology with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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