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This Space Available, By Emily Carney. A new book reveals unseen facets of 1969's Apollo 9 mission....
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. During one brief, shining moment, Landsat crossed paths with the airplane-spaceship-cargo vessel approved the same year the first of...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. Fred Haise has probably experienced more near-misses and “what-ifs” than any other astronaut in spaceflight history....
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. The newest season of For All Mankind continues to spotlight that no human is immune to the sometimes-ugly price...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. While NORAD calculated Skylab's impact time as 12:37 PM EDT on July 11, 1979, this time was disputed by...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. By early 1978, it was clear that Skylab was coming down more quickly than predicted, and ground controllers worked...
Deke Slayton becoming the “boss of the astronauts” served as (kind of) a consolation prize, and even though he wasn’t able to fly in space,...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. Across the Atlantic during 1975, the newly-formed European Space Agency (ESA), like NASA, started using a freshly-designed logo as...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. One of the biggest debates in human spaceflight is still “Meatball or Worm.” And if you know what I’m...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. One of the lesser known personalities of the Apollo lunar program is Ron Evans, Apollo 17 command module pilot....
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. Two new books illuminate the challenging times two NASA Group Five astronauts experienced during the 1970s, a decade more...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. The United States’ first space station provided a glimpse into the Solar System and Universe that previously could only...
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