Space Rocket History Podcast

Suddenly, Buzz and Neil heard the high-pitched sound of the Master Alarm. On the computer display th

The machine-like performance of flight crew and ground controllers continued. Each participant was i

Docking was a delicate maneuver, since both ships were traveling at nearly five miles per second, bu

“The approaching dusk and the damp mistiness left by the now-departed rainstorm only enhanced the sp

The first launch window for Apollo 14 began at 15:23, Eastern Standard Time, 31 January 1971, and la

On November 9, 1970, the Apollo 14/Saturn V assembly, as tall as a 36-story building, rolled out of

Even with all the problems, Shepard piloted the Lunar Module Antares to the most accurate landing of

After the Mercury-Atlas 10 mission was canceled, Shepard was designated as the Commander of the firs

On January 19, 1961, Robert R. Gilruth, the director of NASA’s Space Task Group, informed the seven

Although the Shepards were well off, the children were not coddled. Their father valued work and mad

In the Astronaut Office, it was his intellectual bent that set him apart from some of the other pilo

A Saturn V liftoff is spectacular, and the launch of Apollo 11 was no exception. But it didn’t give

As a Smoke Jumper, Roosa parachuted into at least four active fires in Oregon and California during

There were some people who wondered why America’s first man in space Alan Shepard, at age forty-seve

The Apollo 14 crew were constantly aware that if their mission failed—if they had to turn back—it wa

With the successful launch of Dongfanghong I, China became the fifth country after the Soviet Union,

On July 16th 1969, nearly a million people crowded the Florida highways, byways, and beaches to watc

Osumi was the name of the first Japanese satellite placed into orbit. It was named after the Osumi P

At midnight June 1, 1970 Soyuz 9 lifted off from Area 31 at Baikonur and successfully entered low ea

The original Soyuz 9 mission was planned to fly two Soyuz spacecraft in the August to September 1970