Today is the anniversary of the tragic Apollo 1 fire, which killed astronauts in a ground test. The conventional wisdom says that NASA was unprepared because nobody expected a fire in the...
Fire in (Gemini) Cockpit?
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The Space(port) Race.
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Neil Armstrong.
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Fire in (Gemini) Cockpit?
Today is the anniversary of the tragic Apollo 1 fire, which killed astronauts in a ground test. The conventional wisdom says that NASA was unprepared because nobody expected a fire in the cockpit, especially on the ground during a simulated flight. And yet… I was looking at some old Life Magazines a few days ago, and came upon an article in a September 1964 issue written by a...
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The Space(port) Race.
Things are heating up in the new American spaceport race. Recently, Bill Richardson—the former New Mexico governor who helped establish Spaceport American in New Mexico north of Las Cruces—accepted a contract to help a competing California spaceport overcome some legal challenges. Private space companies seeking to test and launch rockets are concerned about liability. The New...
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Neil Armstrong.
I hadn’t been writing on The Space Buff lately, but I must interrupt my...
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On Hiatus.
In case you haven’t notice, I haven’t posted much lately. This...
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Manned spaceflight's ultimate ann...
Thirty one years ago today, John Young piloted the world’s first...
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Taikonauts, private spacecraft &...
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What’s With Orion?
There’s nothing I’d rather see than a NASA built Orion spacecraft take...
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Private cargo ship to visit ISS in F...
SpaceX,the private space company that produces a line of launchers (called...
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