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Apollo 10 rolls out in March 1969, becoming Pad 39B’s first occupant. Following the Apollo 10 launch in May 1969, four more Apollo missions would fly from Pad 39B, together with 53 Space Shuttle flights and most recently the Ares I-X test in October 2009. Photo Credit: NASA For five decades, Pad 39B at […] America’s Apollo, with its docking module (left), approaches Russia’s Soyuz for the first joint manned space exercise between the two superpowers in July 1975. This would mark the high-watermark of their relations, but the late 1970s would signal a harsh decline in friendship and bring them to the brink of war once again. […] Tom Stafford (right) shakes hands with his counterpart Alexei Leonov in the docking module tunnel on 17 July 1975. This grainy image represents the first serious effort at co-operation between the United States and Russia in human space exploration. Photo Credit: NASA For almost two decades, the United States and Russia have collaborated […] Apollo 18, with its docking module (left), approaches Soyuz 19 for the first joint U.S.-Russian manned space exercise in July 1975. Image Credit: NASA For almost two decades, the United States and Russia have collaborated in the grandest scientific, engineering, and human endeavor ever undertaken in human history: the construction of the International […] Tom Stafford (right) shakes hands with his counterpart Alexei Leonov in the docking module tunnel on 17 July 1975. This grainy image represents the first serious effort at co-operation between the United States and Russia in human space exploration. Photo Credit: NASA For almost two decades, the United States and Russia have collaborated […] Moderator Mark Larson gestures at an animated Rusty Schweickart during the Apollo 13 panel at Saturday’s celebratory event at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Photo Credit: Robert C. Fisher / AmericaSpace On the evening of Saturday, March 21, guests enjoyed a unique celebration at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, […] Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell pose for a pre-flight photo days before their mission. Photo Credit: NASA/The Project Apollo Image Gallery via the Project Apollo Archive 2015 is a year full of spaceflight milestone anniversaries, including the 50th anniversaries of the first five crewed Gemini missions (including the first U.S. spacewalk, […] Pictured during the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission in July 1975, Valeri Kubasov enjoyed a career highlighted by three space missions. Photo Credit: NASA Veteran cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov, who flew three space missions and participated as a crew member in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) joint venture in July 1975, died […] Fifteen years ago today, at age 77, John Glenn became the oldest person ever to venture into space. It is a record which still stands. Photo Credit: NASA Fifteen years ago today (29 October), John Glenn became the oldest human ever to venture beyond the thin veil of Earth and into space. He […] Photo Credit: Retro Space Images / NASA The Technology of the Day: President Ford speaks with Apollo-Soyuz crewmen from the White House in July 1975. Ford uses a phone design unfamiliar to many today while watching the mission on a TV decked out in stylish faux-wood paneling. Like what you see? Then check […] |
 Next Launch RADARSAT on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB, CA scheduled for: 12 Jun 19 at 14:17 GMT 12 Jun 19 at 7:17am Pacific 12 Jun 19 at 10:17am Eastern 
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