Tag Archives: Saturn V

The Infamous and Unknown Rubber Room

Posted on November 25, 2012 by asteitel

This article is the first in a series about my trip to Florida November 1-4, 2012. Be warned, there will be no small amount of space nerd geekery throughout these articles.     There are no shortage of things to … Continue reading →

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Engine Failures Don’t Mean Mission Failures

Posted on October 12, 2012 by asteitel

Last Sunday (October 7), SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket. This one carried a cargo-laden Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on the first formal mission under the Commercial Resupply Service contract with NASA. It was the fourth launch … Continue reading →

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Recovering Apollo 11′s Engines from the Atlantic

Posted on March 31, 2012 by asteitel

This week, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced a bold plan: to recover at least one of Apollo 11′s engines from the bottom of the Atlantic. The engines sunk to the briny deep after the Saturn V’s spent first … Continue reading →

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Taking Gemini to the Moon

Posted on December 22, 2011 by asteitel

Apollo 8 is usually synonymous with Christmas — at least among spaceflight enthusiasts. In 1968, NASA made the daring decision to send Apollo 8 into lunar orbit in the name of getting American men to the moon ahead of the … Continue reading →

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