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Space Rocket History #192 – Apollo 10 – Translunar Injection & First Docking

Posted January 11, 201700:40:36

After a shaky but successful S-IVB burn Apollo 10 was on the way to the Moon. Now the first order of business was for John Young to move to the command...

Space Rocket History #191 – Apollo 10 – The Climb to Orbit

Posted January 4, 201700:35:56

At first stage cutoff the astronauts expected to encounter a single pulse of negative G and the crew would be thrown forward in their straps before...

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #17 – The Mercury 7

Posted December 28, 201600:34:17

On April 1, 1959, Robert Gilruth, the head of the Space Task Group, Charles Donlan, Warren North, and Stanley White selected the first American astronauts....

Space Rocket History #190 – Apollo 10 – The Launch

Posted December 21, 201600:42:45

On May 18th 1969, a king, some congressmen, other distinguished guests, and a hundred thousand other watchers waited at scattered vantage points around...

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #31 – Godspeed John Glenn – Mercury-Atlas 6 – Friendship 7 – Part 2

Posted December 16, 201600:25:07

Mercury Control was still undecided on the course of action to take with the heat shield problem. Some controllers thought the retrorocket pack should...