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‘SCE to Aux’: Remembering Apollo 12’s Hair-Raising Launch, OTD in 1969
OTD in 1969, #Apollo12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon & Al Bean launched to the Moon. Then a thunderstorm got in their way. More
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‘As It Really Was’: Remembering Apollo 7, OTD in 1968
OTD in 1968, #Apollo7 astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele & Walt Cunningham took the first step in America’s journey to land a man on the #Moon. More
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Landing in “The Drink”: Remembering America’s Oceanic Returns from Space (Part 2)
As @Astro_Doug and @AstroBehnken head back to Earth, they become the first American astronauts to splashdown in 45 years. More
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Game of Solitaire: Remembering Apollo 13’s Lost Moonwalks, 50 Years On (Part 2)
In an alternate universe, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise should have been the fifth and sixth sons of humanity to have walked the surface of an alien world. In April 1970, the pair—joined by their Apollo 13 crewmate Jack Swigert—launched on the fifth piloted mission to the Moon, with an expectation that Lovell and Haise […] More
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‘Driven By Confidence’: Remembering Apollo 13’s Lost Moonwalks, 50 Years On (Part 1)
Had the cruelty of fate not intervened, a half-century ago, this month, the fifth and sixth humans ever to set foot on another world twice have walked on the dusty surface of the Moon. Following their launch aboard Apollo 13 and a voyage across 240,000 miles (370,000 km) of cislunar space, on 16 April 1970 […] More
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in Moon, Apollo, Space, Jim Lovell‘Our Finest Hour’: Remembering Apollo 13, 50 Years On (Part 4)
By the middle of April 1970, Project Apollo—America’s effort to land a man on the lunar surface—had reached one of its most decisive points of crisis. As described in last weekend’s AmericaSpace history feature, an explosion rocked the Apollo 13 spacecraft, halfway to the Moon, destroying one oxygen tank, puncturing the second, and effectively crippling […] More
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‘Up to You Now’: Remembering Apollo 13, 50 Years On (Part 3)
Fifty years ago, this week, the lives of three humans literally hung in the balance, more than 200,000 miles (320,000 km) from Earth. For weeks, the superstitious naysayers had labeled Apollo 13 as “unlucky”, but until the evening of 13 April 1970 all had gone well. Flight controllers had joked that they were “bored to […] More
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in Moon, Apollo, Space, Jim Lovell‘We Have a Problem’: Remembering Apollo 13, 50 Years On (Part 2)
Fifty years ago today, on Saturday, 11 April 1970, the third mission aimed at landing humans on the Moon got underway, with a spectacular launch from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. As recounted last weekend by AmericaSpace, Apollo 13 suffered its fair share of misfortunes ahead of launch, when a […] More
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‘Bored to Tears’: Remembering Apollo 13, 50 Years On (Part 1)
By the spring of 1970, six months had passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin triumphantly fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Their steps on the Sea of Tranquility remain the most remarkable accomplishment of our species, yet the extent to which […] More
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Apollo 15 Veteran Al Worden Dies at 88
Only four years before the first woman and the next man are due to set foot on the surface of the Moon, AmericaSpace and the world mourn tonight, following the passing of Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot (CMP) Al Worden at the age of 88. Worden’s 12-day voyage with crewmates Dave Scott and Jim Irwin […] More
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Remembering The Fire, Project Apollo’s Worst Day
More than five decades ago, tonight, one of the worst tragedies in the history of U.S. space exploration unfolded with horrifying suddenness on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy in Florida. “The Fire”—as it infamously became known—tore through the Command Module (CM) of the Apollo 1 spacecraft, during a “plugs-out” ground test on the evening of 27 […] More
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in Apollo, Space, Neil Armstrong‘For One Priceless Moment’: Celebrating Apollo 11, 50th Anniversary Month (Part 4)
On Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas, was filled with tension and expectant quiet. More than three billion people lived on Earth and three others—Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin—occupied an environment far more distant, far more […] More
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