Tag: Space History
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Apollo 11 anniversary adds to the appetite for space artifacts – and moon visions
A photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, signed by the astronaut himself, is among the hundreds of items offered at a space-themed auction this week. The print is expected to sell for $2,500 to $3,500. (Credit: NASA via Bonhams) Forty-seven years ago this week, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission put humans…
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Apollo 10’s moon music mystery revisited
Apollo 10’s Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford and John Young sit for their official portrait. (Credit: NASA) Where did the weird, outer-spacey music that Apollo 10’s astronauts heard on the far side of the moon come from? The case was solved decades ago. Or was it??? “NASA’s Unexplained Files,” airing on the Science Channel, leaves the mystery hanging…
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30 years after the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the loss and legacies linger
The crew of the shuttle Challenger takes a break during countdown training on Jan. 9, 1986: From left are space teacher Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Michael Smith and Ellison Onizuka. (NASA photo) It’s been 30 years since the loss of the shuttle Challenger and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, but…
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Jeff Bezos says next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship should come ‘very soon’
Blue Origin’s New Shepard prototype spaceship lifts off from its West Texas launch pad during a test flight in April. (Blue Origin photo) Even as Jeff Bezos celebrates past achievements in spaceflight, he’s looking forward to seeing his Blue Origin space venture make future achievements. The next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship should…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Seattle’s Museum of Flight unwrap Apollo moon engine artifacts
Billionare Jeff Bezos beams as Allison Loveland, a collection specialist at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, unwraps an Apollo F1 rocket engine injection plate. Geoff Nunn, the museum’s adjunct curator for space history, stands by to the left. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Even Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos got misty-eyed at Seattle’s Museum of Flight during…
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Seattle’s Museum of Flight to show off Apollo moon rocket parts recovered by Bezos Expeditions
The thrust chamber from an Apollo / Saturn V F-1 rocket engine sits on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, awaiting recovery. (Credit: Bezos Expeditions) Experts are wrapping up their conservation work on the decades-old Saturn V rocket engine parts that were recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to an effort backed…
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Jack King, ‘Voice of NASA,’ dies at 84
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Jack King provided launch countdown commentary for every U.S. human spaceflight mission from Gemini 4 through Apollo 15, with one exception. He is seen here inside the firing room at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control Center during the countdown for Apollo 12. Credit: NASA John W. “Jack”…