For years I was perplexed by some photos showing Apollo CMs to be reflective. Recently I read that they were covered with silvered mylar. Were all of them...

Outside at the KSC visitor's center, they have the LC39 walkway leading up to a CM. Does anyone know what this CM is? (Boilerplate, unused CM, unmanned...

I'm looking at the Apollo 8 TV on the DVD, and it looks like it might be slow-scan TV, like the A11 moonwalk. Is that right? What about A9 and A10 - was it...

Is this true about "closing down communications": http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/aiaa/horizons/jun99.html#story --- Replace you know what by j to email

Listening to Liberty Bell 7 air-ground audio on the Mercury DVD set, most of it sounds like it was recorded in the spacecraft. Is that correct? If so, how...

Aurora 7 carried a TV camera, and the Mercury DVD said that it was used, but didn't get good results. They said that they couldn't find the magnetic tape or...

Of these two books by Siddiqi, does one cover up to a certain date, and the second one from that date? Or how is the coverage split between the two books?...

What is the white and gold material near the top of this photo: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-88-11890 It looks like some sort of...

At http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/Rendezvous.html it says "If rendezvous had to be part of Project Apollo, critics of LOR felt that it should be done only in...

Real men don't need blockhouses: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060604.html --- Replace you know what by j to email

I have a hypothetical question - what if America's immediate goal in the 1960s was to circumnavigate the moon or go into orbit around it rather than to land...

I noticed that on the Apollo 9 and 10 LMs, there are the contact poles below all four footpads. On A11, the front leg doesn't have one. Was this to eliminate...

At least some of the later Apollo/Saturn IB launches (Skylab, ASTP) were launched from pad 39 with a tall platform added instead of pad 34 or 37. Why was...

Now we know that the Discoverer project was a cover-up for the Corona spy satellite program. Publicly, the satellites were launching mice and monkeys. I'm...

This is a question for opinions only, so please no flames. Question: (In your opinion) what should manned space flight have done after the Moon landings? ...

Tribute to Gordo He reached for the stars not once but twice Both of his flights were pretty nice. First he flew with Faith and then with Conrad Eight days...

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I think that the next to last photo he http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/EM_Luna_3_page1.html is the one I remember seeing being widely...

What I did on my New Year's Day vacation - KSC 2004/2005 When I was age 12 I saw Gemini 12 and its Agena lift off, and toured Cape Canaveral and KSC the next...

Everyone has seen the famous footage of a Saturn V first stage and interstage dropping off, and the third stage firing and pulling away - from the perspective...