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Dragon Endeavour rises from historic Pad 39A on Saturday evening. The Falcon 9 is now the seventh American-made booster to have lofted American astronauts to space in almost six decades. Photo Credit: Mike Killian/AmericaSpace Last month, America observed 59 years since Alan Shepard became the nation’s first man in space. Tucked inside his tiny […] 
Fifty years ago, this month, after detailed simulations and planning, NASA made a decision that Neil Armstrong (left) would become the first human to set foot on the Moon. His Apollo 11 crewmate Buzz Aldrin (right) would follow shortly afterwards. Photo Credit: NASA Five decades ago, in the first half of 1969, the United […] 
Apollo 16 Commander John Young gazes across the rugged terrain during humanity’s fifth piloted lunar landing. Photo Credit: NASA Astronaut John Young, who died recently at age 87, reduces yet further the number of veteran Moonwalkers who are still with us. Only five men—all in their 80s—can now claim to have experienced the […] 
Apollo 16 Commander John Young gazes across the rugged terrain during humanity’s fifth piloted lunar landing. Photo Credit: NASA John Young, one of only 12 humans to have walked the dusty surface of the Moon, one of only three of mankind’s sons to have traveled twice to lunar distance, the only astronaut to […] 
The Gemini X crew of Command Pilot John Young and Pilot Mike Collins are recovered from their capsule in the Atlantic Ocean by the U.S.S. Guadalcanal on 21 July 1966. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Half a century has now passed since Gemini X astronauts John Young and Mike Collins paved the […] 
From NASA: “Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), showing the flight controllers celebrating the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.” Go, Flight! discusses the flight controllers who made historic NASA missions “tick.” Photo Credit: NASA […] 
From NASA: “Katherine Johnson sits at her desk with a globe, or ‘Celestial Training Device.’” Johnson’s work as a research mathematician contributed to NASA’s successes from the Mercury to the Shuttle programs, and beyond. Photo Credit: NASA Decades before astronaut Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman to soar into space, and a […] Jack King, the first chief of Public Information for NASA’s Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, briefs the news media on the May 2, 1961, postponement of the launch of Mercury Redstone-3 due to unfavorable weather. Three days later, astronaut Alan Shepard made history as the first American in space. […] 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, […] |
 Next Launch NROL-101 on a Atlas V 531 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 3 Nov 20 at 22:58 GMT 3 Nov 20 at 5:58pm Eastern 
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