I hadn’t noticed, or noted it last week, due to my travel schedule and poor internet connectivity, but last Monday was the sesquicentennial anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He was the first, even before Goddard, to lay out the mathematical and physical foundations of spaceflight.
But unlike Goddard, he was a theoretician only, and never built any hardware. So I don’t think he ever said “Hold my vodka, and watch this…”
The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.
Well, it did happen a long time ago. Probably the twit who wrote this hadn’t even been born. Anyway, I wonder where the Russians will get the money for a manned moon mission?
The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.
Well, it did happen a long time ago. Probably the twit who wrote this hadn’t even been born. Anyway, I wonder where the Russians will get the money for a manned moon mission?
The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.
Well, it did happen a long time ago. Probably the twit who wrote this hadn’t even been born. Anyway, I wonder where the Russians will get the money for a manned moon mission?
It’s been ten years since the Mars Pathfinder Mission.
With less than a week to go until the centennial celebration, Dwayne Day has an interesting bit of space history about Robert Heinlein over at The Space Review.
Scott Lowther is now selling a kit for the DC-X.
Jim Oberg debunks it:
In late 1958, as NASA begin defining how to select astronauts, President Eisenhower directed that test pilots be the pool from which candidates were selected. The actual flight experience of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions in hindsight validated that standard. Because of the intimate integration of the pilot in the spacecraft
Jim Oberg debunks it:
In late 1958, as NASA begin defining how to select astronauts, President Eisenhower directed that test pilots be the pool from which candidates were selected. The actual flight experience of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions in hindsight validated that standard. Because of the intimate integration of the pilot in the spacecraft
Jim Oberg debunks it:
In late 1958, as NASA begin defining how to select astronauts, President Eisenhower directed that test pilots be the pool from which candidates were selected. The actual flight experience of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions in hindsight validated that standard. Because of the intimate integration of the pilot in the spacecraft