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Space Rocket History #161 – Apollo 8 – The Decision Part 2

Posted May 19, 201600:36:33

Perhaps the most significant point about the lunar-orbit flight proposed for Apollo 8 was that the command and service modules would fly the same route...

Space Rocket History #160 – Apollo 8 – The Decision Part 1

Posted May 12, 201600:30:43

An ‘A’ type mission would be flown with a Saturn V and be used to test the Launch vehicle, spacecraft, and a high velocity lunar return. Nasa cover...

Space Rocket History #159 – Zond 6

Posted May 5, 201600:28:36

Trouble began on the sixth day of the flight, November 17. The capsule developed an atmospheric  leak, the pressure first dropping from 760 to 380...

Space Rocket History #158 – Soyuz 2 and 3

Posted April 28, 201600:31:45

The soviets showed some confidence in their spacecraft by launching the unmanned Soyuz 2 first, but showed some caution by not sending a cosmonaut in...

Space Rocket History An Encore Presentation of Episode #35 – Textbook Spaceflight – Mercury-Atlas 8, Sigmac 7 with Wally Schirra

Posted April 21, 201600:35:06

After Scott Carpenter’s science heavy Mercury-Atlas 7 flight, Nasa’s next mission would concentrate on the technical and engineering aspects of...