apollo

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 launched from Cape Canaveral, aiming to be the third expedition to land on the moon. As fans of the movie and space buffs know, it didn't work out that way. An oxygen tank in the service module exploded, damaging the spacecraft. The astronauts and mission control...

On Tuesday, it will be 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11, the first crewed expedition to the moon. More followed, and I remember those ones better. I was only 4 when 11 happened so don't really remember much. Of course, NASA has marked the anniversary by initiating a serious attempt to...

Alan Bean, fourth human being to set foot on the Moon, passed away today. That leaves only 4 of the twelve astronauts who actually set foot on our satellite left and all are in their early to mid eighties. At one time, the optimists among us thought we'd be back there while at least some of them...