lifecatchmeHow NASA's Chris Kraft Conducted the Symphony That Put Men on the MoonTIME - Jeffrey KlugerChris Kraft scared the hell out of me — in all the right ways, yes, but still. During the Apollo program, Kraft, who died at age 95 on July 22, was NASA’s director of flight operations, and later ran the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I first met him in the early 1990s, when I was writing Apollo …
lifecatchmeApollo 11 astronauts' trip to Australia highlighted in newly unearthed colour news reelverified_publisherabc.net.au - By Dannielle Maguire for RetroFocusThey were the three most famous men on the planet in 1969, but this footage of the Apollo 11 astronauts touring Australia has excited film archivists …
lifecatchmeRetired NASA Astronaut Terry Virts, Aviators Set World Circumnavigation Speed Record to Honor Apollo 11space.com - Amy ThompsonVirts and his team accomplished the feat in less than 47 hours. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts and an international team of …
lifecatchmeApollo 11: Four things you may not know about the first moon landingverified_publisherBBC NewsBBC News Fifty years on, here are four things that made the Apollo Moon programme one of humankind's greatest technological achievements. Apollo 11: Four things you may not know about the first moon landing
lifecatchmeApollo 11 Had 3 Men Aboard, But Only 2 Walked on the Moon. Here’s What it Was Like to Be the ThirdTIME - Jeffrey KlugerMichael Collins was the man who got history’s middle seat — literally aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft, but in more lasting ways too. He was, technically, the second-ranking member of the three-man crew that achieved the historic moon landing of July 20, 1969. As command module pilot, Collins was …
lifecatchme50 Facts About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing for Its 50th Anniversarymentalfloss.com - mentalfloss .comOn July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with the goal of …