During the mission's dramatic series of events, an oxygen tank explosion almost 56 hours into the flight forced the crew to abandon all thoughts of reaching themoon. The spacecraft was damaged, but the crew was
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13, one of the most dramatic missions in the history of space flight. Launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, the mission was intended to carry three astronauts to the moon. But two days into the mission, an oxyg...
"...Endpapers feature cutaway views of the rocket and all its stages, and offer a timeline of events; meticulous source notes make this a fine reference for youngest researchers, scientists and space fans. In these 48 pages, Floca makes an indelible impression of how those brief eight days ...
Analysis of the first lunar samples confirmed that the Moon is an evolved body with a long history of differentiation and volcanic activity. Unlike Earth’s crust, however, the lunar crust is not recycled by tectonic processes, so it has preserved the records of ancient events. Highland rock ...
Analysis of the first lunar samples confirmed that the Moon is an evolved body with a long history of differentiation and volcanic activity. Unlike Earth’s crust, however, the lunar crust is not recycled by tectonic processes, so it has preserved the records of ancient events. Highland rock ...
The announcement lit a fire under the teams at NASA to complete the task on a seemingly impossible timeline. But the ambitious goal required an equally ambitious budget. The U.S. government ended up allocating $25 billion in 1960s dollars to the Apollo program, or about 2.5% of the U....
Based onNASA’s restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk video, when they got onto the moon, Nixon called to speak with them at least a half hour after Armstrong and Aldrin first stepped on the moon. The choice to speed up the timeline of events was likely for narrative effect. It would’ve been bo...
All Rick Riordan books are in the same timeline, except for the Kane chronicles, which is Egyptian mythology. Even Rick Riordans other new series, “Magnus Chase,” has a cameo from Annabeth, from the Percy Jackson Series, her being Magnus’ Cousin. So this book and pretty much all other...
It is based on actual NASA and contractor plans described elsewhere in Beyond Apollo (see the links at the bottom of this post) and is written as though the events it recounts actually occurred.A word of caution: in order to simplify an already complex timeline, I have ignored the ...
That timeline aligns with that of NASA, which aims to put boots on Mars sometime in the 2030s. On Thursday (Oct. 8), the agency released a 36-page report outlining the basics of its three-phase Mars plan, which involves gaining experience and testing technologies in low-Earth orbit and...