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A space for all things vintage. On Earth and in space.
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Apr 28, 2021
The Post-Apollo Human Mission to Venus
In the mid-1960s, NASA began planning its post-lunar landing…
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Apr 2, 2021
The Slow Demise of the CIA’s A-12
The A-12 was beyond the state of the art of aviation technology…
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Dec 11, 2020
An Uncommon Remembrance of Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager is best known as the first person to fly faster…
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Nov 25, 2020
The “Invisible” U-2 Immediately Became a Political Nightmare
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Nov 11, 2020
U-2: How the Plane No One Wanted was Built
During the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the…
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Oct 21, 2020
How Vladimir Komarov Died on Soyuz 1
Vladimir Komarov was a veteran cosmonaut when he launched on…
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Oct 7, 2020
Why NASA Abandoned the Gemini Rogallo Wing
Splashdowns are iconic, but in the early 1960s, NASA spent…
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Sep 23, 2020
Why NASA Built Two Versions of the Apollo Command Module
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Jul 1, 2020
Space Exploration is All Politics
We might want to explore space to uncover the mysteries of the…
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Jul 23, 2020
The Day I Knew I’d be a Life-Long Space Nut
My mom found the old grade school science project that…
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