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Space Rocket History #157 – Apollo 7-The Flight Part 2

Posted April 14, 201600:40:05

CAPCOM Number 1 (Deke Slayton): Okay. I think you ought to clearly understand there is absolutely no experience at all with landing without the helmet...

Space Rocket History #156 – Apollo 7-The Flight Part 1

Posted April 7, 201600:39:13

SCHIRRA: You’ve added two burns to this flight schedule, and you’ve added a urine water dump; and we have a new vehicle up here, and I can tell...

Space Rocket History #155 – Apollo 7 – Assembly, Testing, Training, and Launch

Posted March 31, 201600:32:45

Command Service Module-101 started through the manufacturing cycle early in 1966. By July, it had been formed, wired, fitted with subsystems, and made...

Space Rocket History #154 – Apollo 7 – The Crew

Posted March 24, 201600:38:52

Had it not been for the fact that Eisele damaged his shoulder during a zero-G training flight aboard a KC-135 aircraft just before Christmas 1965, he...

Space Rocket History #153 – Zond 5 – Tortoises in Space & Nasa Stennis

Posted March 17, 201600:30:04

The first attempt for a Zond 4 follow-up launched on April 22.  It failed when the Launch Escape System sent an erroneous abort command at T+260 seconds...