The moonquakes resulted from formation and subsequent activity along a relatively young thrust fault crossing the Taurus-Littrow Valley floor, the site of the last Apollo mission in 1972. The fault ...

93% of televisions in the United States tuned in to see Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon. Can you believe 7% were watching something else? At 11pm on a Sunday?? But as much as we love it now, Apollo 11 ...

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On today’s episode, we’re cheering for the fraternal twins of the outer solar system. You might know them as the Ice Giants, but really they’re big mush-balls: Uranus and Neptune. And like most ...

Two Pacific storms are visible on a GOES satellite image from July 1978.

The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. The first Ar 234 combat mission, a reconnaissance flight over the Allied beachhead in ...

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Scope and Contents This collection consists of 3 cubic feet of the following material gathered by Martin Springel (Kaneohe Station Manager) relating to the Omega Navigational System: correspondence, ...

Tom Hanton served in the USAF for 25 years. He flew a combat tour in the F-4 with the 366 TFW at Danang AB, Vietnam, logging 350 combat hours on 133 combat missions. Tom was a prisoner of war from 27 ...

Although computers controlled much of an Apollo mission automatically, there were several parts of a mission where an astronaut's interaction with the computer was critical. The Display Keyboard (DSKY ...

Captain Rankin is an F-94 fighter pilot who flew during the Korean War. During a night mission over North Korea, Capt. Rankin was engaged in a dogfight with a Chinese Mig 15 and subsequently shot the ...

Captain Robert C. M. Pelletier distinguished himself by extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on 18 February 1969 as a Combat Infantry Control Officer of an EC-121R ...