Deke Slayton (left) and Alexei Leonov made their first and second spaceflights, respectively, on Apollo-Soyuz. Slayton was one of NASA's original Mercury astronauts, but had been grounded for years ...
Click to open image viewer. This scale model (1:40) of portions of the Skylab and Apollo Telescope Mount docking system is an early concept model. This model has the command module attached at right ...
The glitch that kept a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station last fall, when its crew tried to come home, wasn’t the first. Back in March 1966, when Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott ...