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Why You Should Be Really Excited That Juno is at Jupiter
On July 4, NASA’s Juno spacecraft fired its engines for the 35-minute orbit insertion burn. The spacecraft’s nearly five year...
Why Does a Rocket Need to Roll Going Into Orbit?
By the time the Sun rose a little after 7 o’clock in the morning on December 21, 1968, people were...
Why Did NASA Still Use Pure Oxygen After the Apollo 1 Fire?
On January 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 was killed during a routine pre-launch test. A wire arced in...
What Was the Mir Space Station?
On February 20, 1986, a Proton rose off its launchpad in Kazakstan bound for low Earth orbit. Its payload was...
Does the Moon Sound Like a Bell?
Though the Apollo lunar modules were built for the sole purpose of landing two men on the surface of the...
Why Were There Holes in the Titan Rocket that Launched NASA’s Gemini Missions?
The Titan missile was an US Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile that NASA ultimately chose to launch its interim Gemini...
I Bought an Awesome (if Obscure) Piece of Space History!
Beginning in the mid-1950s, engineers started looking into the problem of aerodynamic heating; the challenge was devising a way to...
Suitsat Might Be The Creepiest Satellite Ever
Why a worn out space suit got an orbital burial
How Quickly Did the Crew of Apollo 13 Know They Had Lost the Moon?
Forty-six hours and 43 minutes into the flight of Apollo 13, Capcom Joe Kerwin had a mission update for commander...
I (Sort of) Hosted A Show with President Obama!
Since starting this blog almost five and a half years ago, Vintage Space, this and my YouTube channel, have been...
