The International Space Station, ISS has been in operation since 2000. But America’s very first space station was SKYLAB. It helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit over 50 years ago. Skylab spent six years in orbit from 1973 to 1979, with three successive three-man crews on board for a record settingContinue reading “SKYLAB – America’s Forgotten Space Station”
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APOLLO 1 – The Forgotten First NASA Disaster
Everyone remembers the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters. We all know the famous Apollo 11 Moon landing and the historic first steps of Neil Armstrong in 1969. But few outside NASA recall the Apollo 1 Tragedy that happened just 2 years earlier. On January 27, 1967, during a launch rehearsal at Cape Kennedy, aContinue reading “APOLLO 1 – The Forgotten First NASA Disaster”