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In 2000, “The Dish” (watch the trailer) was the most popular movie in Australia. Half fact, half poetic-license, it highlights the role that Australia’s Parkes Observatory played in televising the first steps made on the moon. One reviewer wrote “…a real sense of the importance of it to the commun...
Like many people over the age of 45, Barack Obama reminisced yesterday about the Apollo 11 moon landing and what he was doing at the time. The President recalled sitting on his grandfather's shoulders in Hawaii, waving to the Apollo astronauts as they returned on recovery ships.Unlike most people, ...
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<p>Haven't reached your full potential? Consider some words from this guy.</p>
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Apollo historian Matthew Hersch writes:Thanks to the radio telemetry streaming from Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, the engineers at Mission Control could tell, second by second, just how bad the astronauts’ predicament was getting as they prepared to make the first landing on the ...
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Armed with their checklists, the Apollo astronauts literally read themselves to the moon.
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Ralph Morse shot some of the most memorable photographs of the lunar explorers and their families.
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<p>What's that planet in the back windshield?</p>
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On July 17, 1969, even as Apollo 11 headed for the moon, there was still a chance the Soviet space program could salvage a modicum of pride. The race to beat the Americans to a manned landing had long been lost, even before the devastating explosion of the N1 moon rocket—the Soviet answer to NASA's...
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As the first lunar explorers prepared to launch, artist Paul Calle was in the room, quietly sketching away.
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A great irony of Apollo 1 is that it kicked off the third and final phase of the manned space program, and its most anticipated, with utter tragedy. The deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967, in a command module fire during a launch pad test caused the manned Apollo...
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“Your job is not to envision the future, but to enable it.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
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<p>Try talking to your shrink on this thing.</p>
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As a five-year-old growing up in Oklahoma in the 1940s, Jerry Elliott had a vision that he'd someday travel into space. His family was amused, but Jerry had the last laugh. He graduated with a physics degree from the University of Oklahoma—the first Native American to do so—then went to work for NA...
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It didn't all happen at Kitty Hawk.
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Several technologies that could put mechanics out of work.
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A collection of otherworldly paintings goes on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
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Those grainy, black and white television images of Neil Armstrong making his one small step onto the lunar surface...Do they fill you with awe? Or maybe, just a little, do they make you want to lean forward, annoyed, and play with the rabbit ears on your 1960s TV set, give it a hard slap on the top...
It's probably premature to declare SpaceX an established launch company on the basis of yesterday's successful orbiting of Malaysia's Razaksat satellite (see video below). I doubt they'll want to gloat too long, given the technical and financial risks inherent in the rocket business, and the diffic...
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It's all about the solar beta angle.
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