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When I was growing up in the late-1960s and 1970s, I loved color photographs of the Earth taken by the astronauts during NASA’s manned spaceflights. What […]
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 […]
As 1959 opened, the newly created NASA appeared to be well on its way with Project Mercury. In January 1959 the Space Task Group (STG) based […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the earliest years of the Space Age, it seemed that the US Army’s Redstone missile was constantly present. On May 5, 1961 a modified Redstone […]
For long time space enthusiasts like myself, the test flights of the Orion and other new crewed spacecraft in recent years is reminiscent of the first […]
In the years following the end of World War II, the possibility of space travel experienced a great surge of interest in Europe and America. This […]
As we marvel at the daily operations on the International Space Station (ISS), most do not realize that much of the technology and many of the […]
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