The Vintage Space

Following launch rockets normally pitch to the east to reach orbit taking advantage of their motion gained for the rotation of the Earth thus saving f...

Despite the myriad of dangers to space flight and the many crewed missions in space over the past sixty years only on mission resulted in fatalities;...

Since motion sickness is related to balance and would likely be a major issue in space flight NASA wanted to learn more about how balance works. And s...

Amy describe the United States military's (Air Force and Navy) past and present use of space then postulates on the likely goals of a United States Sp...

Rather that relying on mission control for navigation the Apollo spacecraft had on-board navigation. This was the cold war after all and NASA was conc...

To travel to the moon Apollo astronauts had to pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. NASA scientists eventually concluded that radiation exposur...