Greetings to my handful of regulars and I hope you have been finding the site useful and interesting. As of this writing, there are 240 historical Apollo documents from the “Tindallgrams” collection available for viewing, with approximate 230 remaining in the queue. I am tentatively aiming to have these remaining documents transcribed by the end…
Author: flight
From the ashes of the fire: The legacy of Apollo 1.
“Without Apollo 1, we might have never made it to the moon.” Amy Thompson – Popular Science This is the title of an article published by Popular Science 5 years ago, on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. It shares a sentiment which has, in the 55 years since that day, been expressed…
An introduction.
In the late 1960’s, Project Apollo was well underway. Spacecraft were being built, along with the launch vehicles required to break the bonds of the earth and send them to the moon. Crews were being trained, both on-and-off the job, in the basic techniques which would be required for such an audacious undertaking. Programs were…