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Feb 23, 2024 · The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space. Its main construction was completed between 1998 and...
Jun 1, 2024 · Dec. 21, 1968 – Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders blast off on the Apollo 8 mission in the first manned launch from Kennedy Space Center and the first human expedition beyond Earth’s orbit.
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Jack King put out the news on Sept. 1, 1961: NASA and the Army Corp. of Engineers would begin negotiations with land owners on North Merritt Island to acquire 80,000 acres for “a large space vehicle launch facility.” Three months after President John F. Kennedy’s call to send American astronauts to the moon, NASA wanted to expand its presence at Ca...
NASA officially activated its Launch Operations Center, now known as KSC, granting the embryonic lunar launch site equal status with other agency field centers. Previously, it had been the Launch Operations Directorate of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. First center director: Kurt Debus, a German rocket scientist and launch ...
Construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building begins. In total, workers use 98,590 tons of steel, 65,000 cubic yards of concrete and drive 4,225 steel pilings 160 feet into the limestone below to construct the 525-foot-tall building. Construction ends in 1966.
Construction of the first stretch of the “crawlerway” between the Vehicle Assembly Building and launch pad 39A began. Two 40-foot-wide lanes separated by a 50-foot median ultimately became the Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft’s roadway to the moon.
John Tribe was on console when a spark from a chafed wire beneath the seat of astronaut Gus Grissom ignited a fire that swept through the Apollo 204 spacecraft. Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were strapped into their spacecraft high atop a Saturn 1B rocket at Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34, going through a test of all vehicle systems and ope...
It was the loudest launch of all time. On Nov. 9, 1967, an unmanned Saturn V blasts off on the first test flight of the rocket that would launch moon-bound American astronauts. It was the first launch from John F. Kennedy Space Center, so named by Executive Order 11129 on Nov. 29, 1963, just seven days after the assassination of America’s 35th pres...
Twenty-two months after the Apollo 1 fire, NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham blasted off on Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo test flight. It launched from Cape Kennedy, which would become Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
American astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders blast off from launch pad 39A on the Apollo 8 mission. It is the first manned launch of a Saturn V rocket (Apollo 7 was flown on a Saturn 1B from Cape Kennedy), the first manned launch from Kennedy Space Center and the first human expedition beyond Earth orbit. The three astronauts bec...
An estimated 500,000 people flocked to Florida’s Space Coast to witness the only night launch of a Saturn V rocket, a midnight-hour spectacular that propelled Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on the 11th and final Apollo mission, which today remains the most recent human expedition beyond Earth orbit.
America’s first space station, Skylab, launched atop a Saturn V rocket. NASA had hoped to keep Skylab in orbit until a space shuttle could travel to it. However, higher-than-expected solar activity dragged the station toward the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Skylab made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean on July 11, 1979, showering de...
Oct 28, 2020 · The crew arrived two days later, and the space station has been continuously occupied by humans ever since, a 20-year streak of living and working in low-Earth orbit.
Jul 6, 2012 · The space agency notes that it was 50 years ago this week, on July 1, 1962, that the launch facility at Cape Canaveral in Florida took on full-fledged center status, no longer under the...
Mar 30, 2011 · So where did he get this idea from? And why did he envisage his country's future living space lying in the east? The term Lebensraum was coined by the German geographer, Friedrich Ratzel...
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