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Once in a Lifetime – From Kitty Hawk to the Moon

Imaging a small boy sitting on a sand dune in Kitty Hawk in 1903 and looking out. What he could see is a pair of …

For any space nut, the most famous speech from the Apollo era was never given. It was prepared for Richard Nixon and is called In …

Space people think is a long way away. They are wrong. It only starts 63 miles away or, if you prefer the metric system, 100 …

Have you been blown away with the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar? If not, why not? It’s even more epic than the last trailer. …

Today is Yuri’s Night. A day to celebrate and to remember the flight of Vostok 1 and everyone who has followed Yuri into space. This …

Two of the greatest experiments started when I was very young. These being the launch of four probes. The two pioneers and the two voyagers. …

So Billy Bragg told us in song. It was an interesting time the 1960s. There was a lot going in. At the start America got …

Yesterday saw NASA’s annual day of remembrance. The day that NASA remembers not only the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger on STS-51L as well as …

I have done a few posts about the US space program over the last couple of days but when I saw this image pop up …

Today is the 47th anniversary of the loss of Apollo 1 on the launchpad and the death of her crew Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward …