It was fifty years ago today- Sunday December 22, 1968- Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman became will the day after he took a dose of Seconal. The other two astronauts […]
It was fifty years ago today- Saturday December 21, 1968- to boldly go where no men have gone before. Apollo 8 lifted off at 7:51 AM. The three astronauts Frank […]
Back in late May 1961 President Kennedy announced the goal for the United States to send a man safely to the moon and bring him back- before the end of […]
It was fifty years ago today- October 22, 1968 Apollo 7 returned to earth after its 11 day mission. All three astronauts had a common cold but the mission […]
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean died in late May at age 86. Here is an excellent article on Bean from The Space Review- which Quinn Maddux sent me last night […]
Harrison “Jack” Schmitt turns 83 today. There were 12 astronauts who walked on the moon during the Apollo missions- and Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17 was the final astronaut to […]
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