By Press Release, on October 15th, 2013
Image Credit: Heritage Auctions
An Apollo 11 flown Commemorative Cover, signed by the crew and directly from the collection of Mission Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, which could sell for $40,000+, leads a stellar line-up of space-flown objects and important private collections in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 1 Space Exploration Signature® Auction in […]
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By Jason Rhian, on July 19th, 2013 Northrop Grumman hosted a barbecue luncheon for the men and women who worked on the Apollo Program. This and other events took place a day prior to the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com
TITUSVILLE, Fla — Just one day before the 44th anniversary of […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 16th, 2013 Humanity’s first piloted landing on the Moon was perhaps our species’ greatest triumph of the 20th century … or maybe of any century in history. Photo Credit: NASA
Forty-four years ago this very day, the ground in Florida shook to 7.7 million pounds of thrust as the largest and most powerful rocket ever […]
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By Emily Carney, on July 14th, 2013 Image Credit: University of Nebraska Press
To A Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers was first published in 2008 by the University of Nebraska Press as part of its Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series, but is now available in paperback.
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By J.L. Pickering, on June 10th, 2013 Happy Birthday to Jim McDivitt! Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images
Birthday Wishes — Happy birthday to Gemini and Apollo Program space veteran Jim McDivitt!
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By Ben Evans, on June 9th, 2013 By the summer of 1963, the Soviets had launched the world’s first man in space (Yuri Gagarin) and its first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova). For an image-conscious Soviet leadership, these achievements were exploited for the political advantages which they afforded. Photo Credit: Roscosmos
It is a quirk of historical coincidence that both […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 8th, 2013 Right from the start, the training of Russia’s first female cosmonauts was as alien as the environment in which one of them would operate. Although all had flying or parachuting experience, the closeted military world of the cosmonaut team came as a huge cultural shock to them. Photo Credit: Roscosmos
Fifty years ago […]
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By J.L. Pickering, on June 3rd, 2013 Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images
To Walk In The Black — Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space on this date in 1965 on Gemini 4.
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