The Vintage Space

An Uncommon Remembrance of Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager is best known as the first person to fly faster…

The “Invisible” U-2 Immediately Became a Political Nightmare

U-2: How the Plane No One Wanted was Built

During the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the…

How Vladimir Komarov Died on Soyuz 1

Vladimir Komarov was a veteran cosmonaut when he launched on…

Gay Astronauts: A Final Frontier

By Francis French

Why NASA Abandoned the Gemini Rogallo Wing

Splashdowns are iconic, but in the early 1960s, NASA spent…

Why NASA Built Two Versions of the Apollo Command Module

The Day I Knew I’d be a Life-Long Space Nut

My mom found the old grade school science project that…

Space Exploration is All Politics

We might want to explore space to uncover the mysteries of the…