Forty Eight years ago (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered a nearly ... [Read More]
The S-IVB (sometimes S4b, always pronounced "ess four bee") was built by the Douglas Aircraft Company and served as the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB . It had one J-2 ... [Read More]
A young engineer by the name of John Hobalt came up with the concept that it would require two separate space craft. The Apollo program was moving forward with the one big rocket concept. When John ... [Read More]
Everyone remembers the F1 Pratt-Whitney Rocketdyne rocket engine. Famous for boosting the Saturn V rocket to the moon. But have you ever heard of the M1. It's never flown on a spacecraft but holds ... [Read More]
The Bayourat has been selected to view the launch of space shuttle Discovery (STS-133) from the press viewing area at the Kennedy Space Center just 3 miles from the launch pad. I was chosen from a ... [Read More]
Wow, words cannot describe what I have been through this week. I'll try to explain but my head is still spinning from the emotional rollercoaster that we call "human spaceflight". I arrived at KSC ... [Read More]
Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a ... [Read More]
Source: http://www.nasa.gov It wasn't too many years ago that there was this thing about asking sports heroes after winning the big game, "So, what's next?" They would always dutifully answer "I'm ... [Read More]
WASHINGTON — Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an ... [Read More]
Spaceflight Now Atlas Launch Report Landmark launch in rocketry: Centaur set for Flight 200
The venerable U.S. upper stage rocket -- the Centaur -- that created the pathway to the Moon and ... [Read More]
By: Zach Rosenberg Source: Flight International Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Dynetics have announced a resurrected F-1 engine as their entry into the advanced booster engineering d ... [Read More]
Forty Eight years ago (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered a nearly ... [Read More]
