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On April 13, 1970, some 205,000 miles from Earth, an explosion rocked the moon-bound Apollo 13, taking our both engines of the command module and crippling the life-support system. Guided by the ground crew in Huston, the crew took refuge in the…

Verslag van een herdenking aan het MIT van de 40ste verjaardag van de eerste maanlanding – met een uitvergroting van de bijdragen van MIT aan het ruimteprogramma. 

On July 20, 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission that carried him and his two fellow astronauts on their epic journey marked the successful culmination of a quest that, ironically, had…

In planning this photo history we set out to record the story of Apollo before the colors fade and memories blur. At first we aimed to restrict ourselves to the actual expeditions to the Moon. But it soon became clear that this approach could not…

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level…

'Apollo VII - XVII: A collection of photographs taken by NASA's Apollo program astronauts 1968 - 1972' is een recentelijk verschenen fotografie boek dat terugkijkt op de iconische en niet eerder verschenen foto's van de Apollo astronauten, gemaakt…

Dit is een vraag en antwoord boek over allerlei weetjes uit de ruimtevaart. Het spectrum van een 100-tal vragen is ruimer dan de title doet vermoeden. Ook cosmologische vragen komen aan bod, zoals: “In het heelal is het altijd donker. Toch schijnt de…

  As a crewmember of the D-2 shuttle mission and a full professor of astronautics at the Technical University in Munich, Ulrich Walter is an acknowledged expert in the field. He is also the author of a number of popular science books on space flight…

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics. As a crew member of the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission and a full…