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40 years ago: a big step
Published on 20 Jul 2009 at 6:48 am.
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There’s not much to say that everyone else isn’t already saying all over the internet. Forty years ago, the first humans set foot on another world: the Moon. It may be the nearest other world, but it is nonetheless another world. That is an amazing feat.
In a way, it is hard to imagine that it […]
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40 Years Ago
Published on 16 Jul 2009 at 9:38 am.
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40 years ago today a giant Saturn V rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on a trip of a lifetime. The astronauts were going to the Moon. The Saturn V rocket was an amazing piece of equipment. It was the largest rocket that was ever built (the Soviets had tried to build one […]
The Mercury Seven
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 10:31 pm.
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Fifty years ago, the newly created NASA announced the selection of seven military test pilots who would be serving as America’s first astronauts. Officially, they are Astronaut Group 1, but most people call them the Mercury Seven. Selected from Naval aviators were Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Walter Marty (Wally) Shirra, Jr., and Alan Bartlett […]
NACA to NASA
Published on 29 Jul 2008 at 4:54 pm.
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For my regular readers, I’ve been swamped, so I’ve not be able to keep up with my blog. But, this is something that I really wanted to say at least something about.
A little over a half century ago, the first satellite was placed into orbit by the Soviet Union. A few months later, […]
Venera 4
Published on 12 Jun 2008 at 4:46 pm.
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41 years ago, on June 12, 1967, a modified R-7 rocket lifted off from deep within the Soviet Union carrying a spacecraft to another world. The spacecraft was Venera 4, and it was on its way to Venus. Venera 4 was not the first spacecraft to arrive at Venus. That honor […]
Apollo 6
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 12:00 pm.
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Forty years ago today, Apollo 6 was launched. Apollo 6 was the last of the unmanned Apollo missions and only the second time that a massive Saturn V rocket was launched. This was to be the final test launch of the Saturn V before qualifying it for manned missions. Ironically, it was […]
Space Pens
Published on 27 Mar 2008 at 1:11 pm.
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When I was in high school, someone gave me an “astronaut pen.” I was awfully proud of that pen. After all, how many people got a chance to use a pen that had been used in space, I thought? Eventually, though, I lost my prized astronaut pen. Later, I found that […]
