06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... (5 June 2024) morning local time was picture-perfect and it represented the first time since the Mercury missions of the early 1960s that a crew had been launched on an Atlas family rocket. It was a big and...
26 February 2018
International Space Station – Architecture Beyond Earth
... of detail, such as windows, which have been an issue in spacecraft design since the famous argument about the Mercury capsule. The author mentions the equally famous Skylab window, which architectural consultant Raymond Loewy championed...
29 April 2018
Mission to Methone
... children by the little-known British author Hugh Walters and its similarly alliterated titles, such as Mission to Mercury and Spaceship to Saturn. Johnson himself acknowledges the similar ‘Perry Rhodan’ series as an inspiration. Mission to Methone...
20 July 2018
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: The NASA Mission Reports
.... Thus we read a discussion on blowing the hatch after splashdown: Stafford says, “You remember Gus Grissom, during Mercury 4”; Slayton comments, “I wasn’t at all eager about getting that hatch opened too quick”; and Brand concludes...
01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
... name in WWII making aerial cameras for the Swedish Air Force. Following the use of Hasselblads on the Mercury and Gemini missions, a version was developed for Apollo. Although the technical descriptions are brief, the...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
... all life on Earth depends. At its closest point, the spacecraft will operate from within the orbit of Mercury, providing unique data and imagery of the Sun. Solar Orbiter is an ESA-led mission with NASA participation...
