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december 2010 skip to content month december 2010 genesis of a lunar christmas published on december 24 2010 december 25 2010 by asteitel 9 comments i am not generally one to commemorate a holiday with a themed post nevertheless i thought it would be an appropriate occasion to discuss the only apollo mission to fly on christmas the 1968 lunar orbital mission of apollo 8 left the first view of the earth taken by apollo 8 on its way to the moon 1968 i ve mentioned before that the sheer speed at which nasa accomplished the steps leading to and culminating in a lunar landing is one of the fascinating aspects that led me to study the era in the first place the methods of choosing launching and bringing home the astronauts were all determined based on what could be done fastest and easiest with the goal of staying one step ahead of the soviets in the background the first flight to the moon was no different apollo 8 s lunar orbital flight was not in the initial apollo schedule it was undertaken like so many aspects of the early space program as a crash response to an immediate need the story of its origin is as interesting as the flight itself continue reading genesis of a lunar christmas categories apollo manned spaceflight tags anders apollo apollo 8 borman glenn lovell moon nasa shepard soviet space program spaceflight splashdown zond the x 15 as space plane published on december 18 2010 december 19 2010 by asteitel 9 comments a number of my previous posts have drawn attention to some of the central aspects in the history and development of land landings in the early space age but the drawbacks of splashdowns and hazards of the soviets method of ejection represent only a fraction of the story a myriad of factors contributed to the decision of landing methods in the united states no factor was perhaps as influential and tied to landing methods as the shape and design of the spacecraft the x 15 which i ve previously mentioned in passing deserves more attention in this discussion of the link between spacecraft design and landing methods in the 1950s the x 15 represented space plane designs as an early contender for the design of spacecraft pictured is the nose of an x 15 under the wing of a b 52 launch plane continue reading the x 15 as space plane categories aircraft history of space science manned spaceflight tags naa naca space planes usaf x 15 of machines and men published on december 14 2010 december 16 2010 by asteitel 5 comments i recently published a post about the qualities that make up the perfect astronaut the most physically and mentally fit men were the desired qualities of america s first astronauts the strapping young presbyterian lad is certainly not the ideal of the modern astronaut but what about future generations this is also a continuation of a previous post about the end of space shuttle program with the current manned spaceflight program coming to a close what is the future if any for men in space pictured is nasa s robonaut 2001 i recently read roger launius and howard mccurdy s robots in space launius is senior curator at the national air and space museum and mccurdy is a professor at the american university the authors present an interesting possible future for men in space namely they propose that manned spaceflight continue almost entirely without men their discussion and this topic as a whole borders on science fiction bear with me as i navigate the murky waters of speculation continue reading of machines and men categories history of space science manned spaceflight planetary science unmanned spaceflight tags nasa robots spaceflight inventing landings published on december 11 2010 may 4 2011 by asteitel 9 comments a couple of weeks ago i published a post outlining the principle reasons why splashdowns were a not an appropriate long term method for astronauts returning to earth pointing to the ease of splashdowns as the primary reason behind their use throughout the space race is however presenting half the story nasa began pursuing land landings in 1959 well before the space shuttle was on the drawing board the original goal was to use a land landing system from the start pictured is a model mercury spacecraft undergoing impact tests at langley air force base 1958 when nasa s inaugural mercury program was in its infancy and the base decisions about the program were being made one of the central unknowns in spaceflight was how to bring a spacecraft back to earth like designing astronauts spacecraft as well as launch vehicles determining how to land a spacecraft was a new problem with precious little pre existing knowledge on which to build continue reading inventing landings categories gemini history of space science manned spaceflight mercury rockets space shuttle tags blunt bodies gemini landing systems lifting bodies manned spaceflight mercury program nasa spaceflight designing the perfect astronaut published on december 7 2010 december 7 2010 by asteitel 13 comments the experimental creative and at times imaginative nature of the mercury program has always fascinated me the program and the decision that preceded it answer a totally unique question what do you do when you suddenly need to put a man in space and you have no previous experience to build off of continue reading designing the perfect astronaut categories history of space science manned spaceflight mercury tags astronaut selection carpenter conrad cooper glenn grissom lovell mercury program nasa schirra shepard slayton v 2 the vehicle that launched the space age published on december 4 2010 by asteitel 7 comments two of my previous posts tease out the main differences in the landing methods employed by both nasa and the soviet space program as a means of illustrating the contrast between the two programs what these posts don t draw attention to is the large number of similarities between the two conflicting powers in their respective approaches to spaceflight in the early space age both the us and the ussr pursued accelerated methods to get a man in space both achieved initial flights with capsule style spacecrafts on top of ballistic missiles this similar method had a common root both countries based their launch vehicles at least in part on the nazi v 2 rockets both had access to and exploited this technology in the wake of the second world war admittedly the history of the v 2 is slightly on the fringe of the history of spaceflight proper but a familiarity with the roots of the rocketry that launched the space age adds a dimension to the american and soviet programs that is otherwise lost continue reading v 2 the vehicle that launched the space age categories history of space science rockets soviet tags american germany history of rocketry soviet v 2 von braun wwii search for recent posts that time i drank with gene cernan the last man on the moon would nasa tell us about alien contact can a wood heat shield really work what s the best kind of rocket fuel 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