Posted on November 16, 2016
Although the contractors had shipped excellent spacecrafts, preparations at Kennedy did not go quickly from the assembly building to the launch pad. Testing was delayed several days in order to stay out of the way of Apollo 9 pre-flight activities. A...
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Posted on November 23, 2016
Thomas P. Stafford was the first member of his Naval Academy Class of 1952 to pin on the first, second, and third stars of a General Officer. He flew six rendezvous in space; logged 507 hours and 43 minutes in space flight and wore the Air Force comm...
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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, Jim Lovell, John Glen, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Wally Schirra, Walter Cronkite
Posted on November 30, 2016
On Cernan’s second space flight, he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969. Apollo 10 was the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. Cernan was accompanied on the 248,000...
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Posted on December 7, 2016
John Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut thus far. Over the course of 42 years of active NASA service he made six space flights and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini,...
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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, Jim Lovell, John Glen, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Wally Schirra, Walter Cronkite
Posted on December 21, 2016
On May 18th 1969, a king, some congressmen, other distinguished guests, and a hundred thousand other watchers waited at scattered vantage points around the Cape area. At 49 minutes past noon, Rocco Petrone’s launch team sent Apollo 10 on its way to t...
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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Authur C Clarke, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, Jack King, Jim Lovell, John Glen, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, Paul Haney, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Wally Schirra, Walter Cronkite
Posted on February 15, 2017
As the lunar module approached, Young saw it through his sextant at a distance of 259 kilometers. Stafford and Cernan got a radar lock on the command module shortly after the insertion burn and watched with interest as the instrument measured the dwi...
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Posted on January 1, 2015
After Voskhod-2, an ideological vacuum, disorder, and vacillation cropped up in the Soviet maned space program. There was no clear-cut answer to which project should be the priority, a new series of Voskhods, artificial gravity experiments, or the co...
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Tagged:11k, 7k, 8k74, 9k, Boris Cherkov, Chertok, Chizhikov, Frank Borman, Gemini Vi, Gemini Vii, Igla, James Lovell, Keldysh, Khrushchev, Korolev, Korolyov Design Bureau, Kuybyshev, L3, N1, Nii 648, Nikolay Kamanin, Okb 1, Okb 456, Okb 52, Proton, R7, Rauschanbach, Semyorka, Soyuz, Thomas Stafford, Tikhonravov, Turkov, Tyulin, Ur 500, Ur 500k, Ur 700, Voskhod, Vostok, Walter Schirra