The Apollo 8 Christmas Dinner Surprise: Turkey and Gravy en Route to the Moon in 1968
This post was originally published on this siteOn Christmas Day in 1968, the Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were […]
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These photos show the NASA’s innovative AX-3 spacesuit, 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteThe AX-3 was designed at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) in the middle 1970s. A prototype, it was […]
Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteIn the summer of 1975, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, a team of NASA and Stanford […]
NASA survival training: When astronauts had to train for survival in deserts and jungles, 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteAll NASA astronaut groups were given a series of survival courses to prepare them for expected landings in […]
The extraordinary life aboard NASA’s Skylab, 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteSkylab was America’s first step toward making space something other than a nice place to visit. Developed in […]
Apollo program astronauts training in Arizona for the Moon missions, 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteBefore the they walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, the Apollo program astronauts trained in Flagstaff, […]
Apollo astronauts in quarantine after the moon mission, 1969
This post was originally published on this siteWhen planning the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, NASA had thought about every possible detail including a […]
Apollo 11 preparation in rare photos, 1969
This post was originally published on this siteApollo 11 was the climax of the Apollo program, which pushed human spaceflight forward faster than ever before. […]
The “falling cat” phenomenon that helped NASA prepare astronauts for zero gravity, 1969
This post was originally published on this siteIt is a well-known fact that a cat which is falling upside down, has the ability to turn […]