By Ben Evans, on April 17th, 2020
Apollo 13 back on Earth. Photo: NASA
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 […]
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By Emily Carney, on January 21st, 2015 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
It is perhaps one of the most well-known, oft-repeated stories in the history of human spaceflight. In April 1970, an oxygen tank explosion in Apollo […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 11th, 2014 Al Bean begins his descent from the hatch of the lunar module Intrepid toward the surface at the Ocean of Storms. Photo Credit: NASA
One thing that irritated Charles “Pete” Conrad was the public belief that astronauts were told to say certain things during their missions. He knew that when Neil Armstrong became […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 9th, 2013 An early conceptual design for a lunar landing craft, envisaged by the Golden Spike Company. With Northrop Grumman’s involvement, the start-up company can boast a partnership with the only organization ever to successfully develop and fly a piloted lunar landing vehicle. Image Credit: Golden Spike Company
More than four decades since its last […]
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By David Darling, on March 11th, 2013 When will mankind return to the lunar surface? When this does occur, will it be the U.S., the Chinese, or commercial industry? Image Credit: NASA
When Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, headed back up the ladder of the Lunar Module on December 14, 1972, he became the last human to […]
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By Jason Rhian, on February 19th, 2013 The Golden Spike Company has announced it has opened up a Kickstarter account. Image Credit: NASA/AmericaSpace
The Golden Spike Company—the firm that has announced plans to send small-scale crewed missions to the Moon—is in need of a little help. The company has decided to raise some of the funds needed to support their […]
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By Jason Rhian, on January 25th, 2013 The Golden Spike Company’s Alan Stern talks with AmericaSpace about his company’s plans to return crews to the lunar surface. Image Credit: The Golde Spike Company / NASA
Within the past month or so, the commercial space firm, The Golden Spike Company, has burst onto the public consciousness with its announcement that it […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 8th, 2013 The Golden Spike Company has tapped Northrop Grumman to develop a lunar lander for the commercial space company. Image Credit: Golden Spike
Officially revealed to the world barely a month ago, the Golden Spike Company last week announced a contract with aerospace giant Northrop Grumman to begin design work on a lunar landing […]
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By Jason Rhian, on December 7th, 2012 Image Credit: The Golden Spike Company
The private space arena has exploded in recent years, accomplishing things that were once the purview of nations. Now, one of these firms has made an announcement that it is working to send commercial customers to the Moon. The Golden Spike Company has stated that, for the […]
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