Strange NASA Stories
by Roger Chassay, March 18, 2014This is the 50th year celebration of the July 16th, 1969 launch of Apollo 11 and transport 18 March 2014.I. UNUSUAL MANAGEMENT SUCCESSAbout 1990, I was…
NASA/MSFC Saturn Program Memories
by Ted EdgeThis is the 50th year celebration of the July 16th, 1969 launch of Apollo 11 and transport of three U.S. Astronauts; Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael…
Launch Complex 39 surrounding areas are seen during an aerial survey of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 12, 2017. The survey was performed to identify structures and facilities that may have sustained damage from Hurricane Irma as the storm passed Kennedy on September 10, 2017. NASA closed the center ahead of the storm’s onset and only a small team of specialists known as the Rideout Team was on the center as the storm approached and passed.
An Experience of a Lifetime
by Sandra TurnerDo you like to experience exhilaration, pride in being an American, excitement, history-making events? Then you would like to travel to Kennedy Space Center in FL and witness…
America is about Eagles
by Charles Richard Chappell It has become my custom when I'm connected with a launch of the shuttle to go out the day before launch to the Kennedy Space Center…
Living in the “What Might Be”
by Charles Richard Chappell 1 The Uncertain Beginning It had been a full day. Graduation was less than a week away, and there were many things to complete, not the…
An Early Space Experience
This article is one of a set of "Recollections" Bill Snoddy wrote for his children and grandchildren. As discussed in previous “recollections,” in early June of 1958 I reported to work…