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Mariner 10 got to Mercury first.
Exploration of Mercury didn’t begin with the recent success of the...
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NASA’s return to the moon prog...
Constellation, NASA’s planned successor to the retiring shuttle is dead....
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Commanding the original astronauts
Astronauts—especially the early astronauts—are generally very proud...
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Group plans amazing celebration of G...
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That Other Moonlanding in 1969
In 1969, there were TWO manned lunar landings. The second one is not well-remembered by most people. In part, that’s because Apollo 12 was anticlimactic compared to Apollo 11. But there was another reason. No TV. COLOR Television Planned The plan was for much better TV than Apollo 11 had. They brought a color TV [...]
God in Space
Astronauts have, typically, been pretty quiet about religion. They are aware that they are public figures, and shouldn’t get themselves into unnecessary controversies. This became clear in 1968 when the Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis in lunar orbit…and were subsequently sued by an atheist. Since those days, we’ve seen a few cases of people [...]
Empty space?
Continuous human habitation of space has been going on for some time. When the International Space Station really got going, it seemed to mark a special time in history: the time from which people would ALWAYS be in space. In fact, a least one human being has been in space since the end of October [...]
