Tag: Apollo
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Apollo astronauts’ heart disease linked to space radiation, but there’s a big catch
NASA astronaut James Irwin salutes the American flag during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. Irwin experienced irregular heart rhythms while on the lunar surface, and suffered at least two serious heart attacks after returning to Earth. He died in 1991. (Credit: NASA) Is deep-space radiation hazardous to your cardiovascular system? A newly published study…
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Apollo 11 anniversary adds to the appetite for space artifacts – and moon visions
A photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, signed by the astronaut himself, is among the hundreds of items offered at a space-themed auction this week. The print is expected to sell for $2,500 to $3,500. (Credit: NASA via Bonhams) Forty-seven years ago this week, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission put humans…
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July 15, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launched
American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The Soviet Soyuz with cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubasov was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome about seven hours before the American Apollo-Saturn 1B with Tom Stafford, Vance Brand…
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Apollo 10’s moon music mystery revisited
Apollo 10’s Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford and John Young sit for their official portrait. (Credit: NASA) Where did the weird, outer-spacey music that Apollo 10’s astronauts heard on the far side of the moon come from? The case was solved decades ago. Or was it??? “NASA’s Unexplained Files,” airing on the Science Channel, leaves the mystery hanging…
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Apollo 14 moonwalker (and UFO seeker) Edgar Mitchell dies at the age of 85
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell sits for his official portrait in 1970. Mitchell’s crewmates on the mission in 1971 were Alan Shepard and Stuart Roosa. (Credit: NASA) Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has died at the age of 85 after a months-long illness, according to reports that emerged on the 45th anniversary of his first moonwalk.…
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Families, NASA honor fallen astronauts
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, crew families, friends and space workers gathered Thursday to remember the 17 men and women who lost their lives on the high frontier, 14 in two space shuttle disasters and three in an Apollo-era launch pad fire 49 years ago…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Seattle’s Museum of Flight unwrap Apollo moon engine artifacts
Billionare Jeff Bezos beams as Allison Loveland, a collection specialist at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, unwraps an Apollo F1 rocket engine injection plate. Geoff Nunn, the museum’s adjunct curator for space history, stands by to the left. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Even Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos got misty-eyed at Seattle’s Museum of Flight during…
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45 years after Tranquility: One small step to a bright future
Forty-five years ago, people across the world held their breaths as a hair-raising, heart-pounded descent occurred a quarter of a million miles away from Earth. At the Sea of Tranquility, on 20 July 1969, two humans succeeded in what many had considered impossible: landing and walking on the surface of another world. Cruise to the…
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Apollo 11 marks 45 years since historic launch
Wednesday marked the 45th anniversary of the launch of the most important space mission in human history. On this day, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center (Cape Kennedy) on the mission that would succeed in landing the first humans on the surface of another world. Mission background: On 25 May…
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Examining Buzz Aldrin’s roadmap to Mars
Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin recently released “A Unified Space Vision,” his personal plan for humankind’s next two decades in space. Blending elements from today’s space flight reality with visions for missions yet to come, Aldrin foresees the United States leading the charge to a permanent human presence on Mars by 2040. Pondering the present future:…