From somewhere, one of my friends got a story of the astronauts on the moon saying "I think we found an artifact" and the ground saying "switch to channel B"...

When the Mercury 7 were asked to vote on who should go up first, what was the tally (if it is known)?

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:28:10 +0000 (UTC), (Matthew F Funke) wrote: The former plan makes a lot more sense. It takes a lot of extra...

Did the Apollo SM engine ever fail? When I was at a program at the Cape in 68, they said that the SM engine had a reliability of 99.99% (or 99.999 or...

When I was a kid in the 60s, reading books about space and rockets, I read that with the current (at that time) fuels and minimum weights for tanks and...

In "In the shadow of the Moon", there is film of Mission Control at the time Apollo 11 lands. Deke is on the left, then Charlie Duke, the Lovell, the (I...

The bottom of this page http://www.astronautix.com/engines/f1.htm says "first launch 1959". Wasn't this only a static test firing? The first launch was the...

On Wikipedia, it says that Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" says that at the time of Apollo 8, some people didn't believe it was real. (I read the book...

Which mission are the recovered F-1 engines from? Most reports say that they are from Apollo 11, but some say that they don't know because the serial numbers...

Here's something interesting - a photo of Gargarin on his way to the launch pad - with backup Titov going along - suited up! See photo #8.

On 1 Sep 2003 00:39:33 -0700, (Stuf4) wrote: (When you introduced yourself as Jud McCranie, I'm sure everyone was wondering...

It is well-known that Gemini 8 fired their retros to get control of the spacecraft, and then reentered. Was there only one firing that got control of the...

I know that the selection of Armstrong and Aldrin for the mission that ultimately made the first moon landing was supposedly because they were in line. But...

I'm wondering what the status of some of the Mercury astronauts during the late Gemini and Apollo years. I know Shepard was grounded because of the ear...

I think that the last Titan (a Titan 4) to be launched from the Cape is scheduled for January. Are launches from Vandenberg ever to the east? Assuming that...

When Explorer I was launched, it looks like the top stage and payload were rotating. Was this for stability? Did any other rockets rotate like that when...

Is there a limit on the size of messages that can be posted here? I've repeatedly tried to post a long one, and it just won't post.

Back before the Shuttle, I heard that the Cape was in control of a flight until it cleared the tower, then Houston took over. Houston remained in control...

After the explosion on the A13 SM, was the SM able to provide any water, oxygen, or electricity?

On Sun, 19 May 2013 10:32:46 -0700 (PDT), bob haller wrote: kodak permanetely ended the ability to develop Kodachrome film a year or two...