Space Rocket History Podcast

Nasa concluded that the failure of the micrometeoroid shield 63 seconds into the flight caused the b

Having two rockets stacked on pads 39A and 39B at the same time made for quite a sight at the Kenned

This SMEAT crew would test out various elements of the Skylab equipment and procedures in a series o

The backup crew and some support crew participated in an interesting rescue scenario with 2 astronau

Aside from physically training for the longest crewed missions that the United States had ever attem

Bill Pogue served with the Thunderbirds as an aerobatics pilot from 1955 to 1957. The post Space Roc

Carr was in the likely crew rotation position to serve as lunar module pilot for Apollo 19 and walk

“Farewell, Aquarius, and we thank you.” Joe Kerwin The post Space Rocket History #398 – Skylab – The

“I started out being president of my first grade class, two years in a row.” Ed Gibson The post Spac

“Pete wanted to do Skylab and we both felt that we did not want the moon program to get crowded, oth

Skylab had three bedrooms or sleep compartments, one for each astronaut aboard.  To save space, the

As a crew would approach Skylab in their Apollo Command Module, they would see its docking port that

During 1970-1972, a possible fourth “new” docking mission with Skylab was considered. This new missi

On February 1970, Nasa announced that the AAP had been renamed.  America’s first space station would

The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created in 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-ba

On June 7th 1969, General Stewart ordered all work on Gemini B, the Titan IIIM and the MOL spacesuit

A planning document depicted 12-man and 40-man stations, both with self-defense capability. It descr

Strangely enough the MOL astronauts only knew of the cover story that the program would be a space l

NASA feasibility studies determined that a research space laboratory could be placed in orbit by 196

A scant five months after Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December of 1972, NASA lau