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Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Back-Up Pilot: Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn is shown in the cockpit of the MR-3 (Freedom 7) spacecraft at Launch Complex 5 in April 1961. Glenn was serving as back-up pilot to fellow astronaut Alan Shepard. The following month, on May 5, 1961, Shepard would become […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Nose to Nose: Apollo 10 mission commander Thomas Stafford has a friendly encounter with the well-known beagle “Snoopy.” The famous hound from “Peanuts” cartoon fame served watch over NASA’s Manned Flight Awareness Program and also was honored by the Apollo 10 crew who named their Lunar […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images All Smiles to Start With: Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise is relaxed and ready as he and fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert prepare for launch on April 11, 1970, from the Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A. The planned third U.S. manned landing […] Photo Credit: J.L. Pickering / Retro Space Images Launch Preparations: The lower portion of the Saturn V for the Apollo 16 mission is shown at Launch Complex 39A in late December 1971. The launch vehicle had originally been rolled to the pad on Dec. 13, 1971. Technical issues with the Command Module forced […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Light the Candles: Happy Birthday wishes going out to space shuttle veteran and former Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Crippen, who was born in 1937. The four-time space shuttle astronaut was pilot aboard the first shuttle mission in 1981, and then commanded STS-7, STS-41-C, and STS-41G. […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Retro Cape: Launch team members pause long enough to pose for this photo at Complex 5 while preparing a Juno II for launch in December 1958 from Cape Canaveral. The Juno II was a derivative of the Jupiter rocket and was used in the late 1950s […] Photo Credit: Angelo Taiani / Retro Space Images Work is Done: Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center begin inspecting one of the solid rocket boosters that launched STS-8 and Space Shuttle Challenger into orbit on Aug. 30, 1983, from Launch Pad 39A. The two spent boosters were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean soon […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Tour Highlight: A large group of Kennedy Space Center summer interns are given a special tour of KSC on June 18, 1969. An obvious highlight was this stop at Launch Pad 39A, where the Saturn V for the Apollo 11 mission was being prepared for the […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Room with a View: Fantastic view of the Yucatan and British Honduras as photographed by astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad during the eight-day mission of Gemini 5 in August 1965. The Gemini Program produced a large number of wonderful views of Earth during the 1965-1966 […] Image Credit: Retro Space Images Retro Space Images is offering up rare imagery from NASA’s Saturn V Moon rocket. The package has a collection of photos from the Apollo era from 1967-1973. While you might have seen a handful of the Apollo-era photos contained within, most of them have rarely been seen before. […] |
 Launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 with Starlink 17 has been delayed once again. Currently the new launch date is To Be Determined. Click here for more details...  |
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