It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Ilan and his six ...
Apollo offers a whopping seven different types of widgets, roughly half of which are the sort of widgets you would expect – displaying posts from your favorite subreddit or providing launchers into ...
That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.
Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...
Apollo is a wedge flipper robot which the team describe as a ‘launcher’ as it can ‘launch a 100kg competitor at least six foot into the air.’ It runs up to 1000psi producing over five ...
TV audiences became bored with the Moon landings and the Apollo programme was scrapped, with the final launch in 1972. At the time, President Nixon was making plans to begin a Christmas mass ...