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Space Rocket History #179 – Apollo 9 – The Launch
For the 19th flight of American astronauts into space, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, representing the new administration of Richard Nixon, sat in the...
Space Rocket History #178 – Apollo 9 – The Crew – McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart
James Alton “Jim” McDivitt was born on June 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He is of Irish descent. Like many other astronauts, he was a ...
An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #1 – Ancient Rocketry: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
From our small world we have gazed upon the cosmic ocean for thousands of years. Ancient astronomers observed points of light that appeared to move...
Space Rocket History #177 – Apollo 9 – Preparations
The biggest concern before Apollo 9 was the docking maneuver. In early 1969, at NASA there was little confidence in the docking system. At a January...
Space Rocket History #176 – The First Test Flight of the Soviet N1
Finally, on the morning of February 21, all the population of the N1 assembly area and a residential area, situated just south of the launch pad, was...
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