Tag Archives: 1960s
The Surveyor Landers on the Moon
Like so many other point of intersection, soft landing on the Moon with robotic probes proved a venue for Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s. The Soviets won that competition February 3, … Continue reading
Gerard K. O’Neill and the Great Disappointment
Disappointments must not be forgotten. One of the great disappointments of those interested in the use and development of human space capabilities has been the inability to colonize the solar system. Emerging from the Apollo program of the latter 1960s … Continue reading
Key Developments in USA/USSR Space Cooperation During the Cold War
The post-Cold War era has seen the United States and Russia undertake fundamentally significant cooperative ventures in space. This was an enormously significant development for the pursuit of aggressive human space activities, no doubt, but it tends to overshadow a … Continue reading
Visualizing Apollo’s Exploration and the Idea of Progress
For all but a handful of space travelers the voyages of exploration into space were events participated in vicariously by the billions of humans living on Earth. It has brought a connectedness and reinforced a common set of values among … Continue reading
A Brief on the Apollo 1 (Capsule 204) Fire, January 27, 1967
What happened? The Apollo 1 (204) Command Module was on the ground at the Kennedy Space Center on January 27, 1967 when a fire broke out in the capsule. The three crew members (Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Edward … Continue reading
Redirect: “Apollo Lunar Landings Multiscreen” Video
This is pretty neat. This video depicts simultaneously the landing of all six Apollo missions that reached the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. The compiler took all of the video from the Lunar Module and realligned them to 45 degrees … Continue reading
Animated Apollo Mission Patches
This is an enjoyable short video of all of the mission patches created for Apollo. This very cool animation was done with high res public domain NASA imagery, free 3D models, and animation through Cinema 4D with post work done in After Effects.
Setting Course for the Red Planet: Early Flyby Missions to Mars
Robotic exploration of Mars has been one of the persistent efforts of the space age. It began, just as lunar exploration had, in a race between the United States and the Soviet Unionto see who would be the first to … Continue reading
The Cold War Origins of Space Access
It is almost a truism that the primary U.S. space launch capabilities were created only because of the challenge of an exceptionally desperate Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union. Accordingly, the development and deployment of ballistic missiles, space-based intelligence-gathering … Continue reading
