Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...
The three-man crew of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders - was the first to leave Earth on a Saturn V rocket. They departed ...
Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. In the ...
This article was originally published in 2013. In NASA's early years, the agency learned by doing; developing tests and procedures as programs wore on. One test developed and used in the Mercury ...