"Make no mistake: Every flight is a test flight when it comes to space travel." ~~~ NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, in 2020
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1926 March 16: Dr. Robert H. Goddard successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket near Auburn, Massachusetts.
1947 July 8: U.S. Army Air Force officials announced to a gullible newspaper reporter that a 'flying disc' had crashed 130 miles from Roswell, New Mexico, but later the same day corrected the report by announcing that the object was a weather balloon.
1948 March: Two con men in Aztec, New Mexico convinced a gullible newspaper reporter that a 100-foot-diameter metal disk had recently crash-landed outside town and that the U.S. government had hauled away the spacecraft and 16 alien bodies.
1957 Oct 4: The Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik I satellite, which began the Space Race.
1958 Jan 31: First successful U.S. satellite launch, of Explorer I America entered the Space Age.
1958 July 29: President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics & Space Act, creating N.A.S.A.
1959 Jan 2: Launch of Soviet Russia's space probe Luna 1, the first manmade object to fly past the moon.
1959 April 9: N.A.S.A. announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts.
1959 Oct 4: Soviet space probe Luna 3 transmitted images of the far side of the moon back to Earth.
1961 April 12: Soviet 'cosmonaut' Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth.
1961 May 5: America's first sub-orbital space flight launched astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. off-Earth for 15 minutes.
1961 May 25: President John F. Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth."
1962 Feb 20: N.A.S.A. Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, for 4 hours 55 minutes, aboard Friendship 7.
1962 Aug 11-12: The Soviet Union sent cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev into orbit for 94 hours in Vostok 3; next day they sent cosmonaut Pavel Popovich into orbit in Vostok 4; both returned to Earth safely on 15 August.
1962 Aug 27: N.A.S.A. launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past the planet Venus in December 1962.
1964 July 31: America's space probe Ranger 7 reached the moon, transmitting pictures back to Earth before crashing into the lunar surface.
1965 March 18: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov took the first spacewalk, leaving his Voskhod 2 capsule on a tether.
1965 Aug 29: The Gemini 5 capsule, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles 'Pete' Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after 8 days in space.
1966 Feb 3: First spacecraft landed on the moon, the Soviet Luna 9.
1966 June 2: America's space probe Surveyer I landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1967 Oct 19: The U.S. space probe Mariner 5 flew past the planet Venus.
1969 July 20: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong & Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin in the lunar lander 'Eagle' touched down on the surface of the moon at 4:18 p.m. EDT. Aldrin & Armstrong were the first men to walk on the moon's surface; astronaut Michael Collins remained overhead in the orbiter module.
1969 Nov 19: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad & Alan Bean made man's second walk on the moon's surface; astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr. stayed overhead in the command module.
1972 Jan 5: President Richard M. Nixon announced that he had ordered the development of the Space Shuttle.
1975 July 17: A manned N.A.S.A. Apollo spaceship docked with the Russian Soyuz 19 spacecraft in orbit, the first linkup of the two superpowers in space; the two American astronauts boarded the Russian craft and visited for two hours.
1978 Jan 11: The Russian Soyuz 27 spacecraft with two cosmonauts aboard linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station, where the Soyuz 26 spacecraft was already docked.
1983 June 13: N.A.S.A.'s space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system, as it crossed the orbit of the planet Neptune; radio transmissions ended in January 2003.
2019 Jan 3: China successfully landed its Chang'e 4 probe & lunar rover at 10:26am Beijing time on the far side of the moon, at the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the moon's largest and oldest impact crater; the probe sent back its first photo just over an hour later, showing a small crater illuminated by the spacecraft. A lack of radio signals on the far side, or dark side, of the moon means Earth can't directly communicate with the lunar probe, so China launched a relay satellite in May. (Chang'e is the name of the mythological moon goddess of China.)
2019 Aug 10: An asteroid bigger than the Eiffel Tower hurtled past Earth early Saturday at a speed of 10,400 miles per hour, missing us by 4.6 million miles; had the fast-moving space rock, named 2006 QQ23, been following a different course, it could have slammed into our planet with an explosive force of up to 500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
2021 Feb 19: N.A.S.A. landed its Perseverance rover on Mars, on a mission to determine whether Mars ever supported life; the new $2.7 billion robotic explorer has sophisticated cameras and lasers that can analyze the chemical components of rocks, as well as ground-penetrating radar capable of identifying fossilized microbial life from an era when Mars had plentiful water.
The supposed incident at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 (just nine months after the Roswell, NM weather balloon incident) purports that a 100-foot-diameter disk spacecraft landed near Aztec, and that The Guvvermint hauled away 16 alien bodies; for a while, the story fueled the Aztec UFO Symposium [1997-2011]. This 1950 hoax derived from a gullible newspaper reporter passing along the unverified story of Silas M. Newton and Leo GeBauer; the latter two con men were convicted of a different fraud on 14 October 1952 and sent to prison.
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else. — Stephen W. Hawking [1942-2018]
This section got large rather quickly and so was cut to its own page in Summer 2019.
"For All Mankind" on Apollo pgm [10/1988] by Harry Hunt III
http://www.amazon.com/All-Mankind-Harry-Hurt/dp/0871131706/
"Truth, Lies, and O-Rings / Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster" [1994] Allan J. McDonald & James R. Hansen http://www.booksxyz.com/profile3805018.php
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Lies-O-Rings-Challenger-Disaster/dp/0813041937/
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Lies-O-Rings-Challenger-University/dp/B00E28USM6/
"Space Odyssey: First Forty Years of Space Exploration" [5/2002] by Serge Brunier, Translated by Stephen Lyle
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Odyssey-First-Forty-Exploration/dp/0521813565/
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Odyssey-Exploration-Brunier-Hardcover/dp/B010WF8TC8/
"After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age" [3/2007] by Martin Collins
http://www.amazon.com/After-Sputnik-Years-Space-Age/dp/0060897813/
"Flight: The Complete History" [3/2007] by R.G. Grant
http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Complete-R-G-Grant/dp/0756619025/
1926 April 3: Dr. Goddard launched his second flight of a liquid-fueled rocket.
1927 May 19-20: Aviator Charles Lindbergh made the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling nonstop from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York to Paris, France in 33.5 hours.
1930 Summer: Dr. Goddard and his team relocated to Roswell, New Mexico.
1936 Nov: Dr. Goddard flew the world's first rocket (model L-7) with multiple chambers.
May 1942: Dr. Goddard and his team moved to Navy facilities in Annapolis, Maryland.
1947 Oct 14: Air Force test pilot Charles E. 'Chuck' Yeager broke the sound barrier over Edwards A.F.B. [Muroc Dry Lake] in California, flying the Bell XS-1 rocket plane to a speed of Mach 1.06.
1957 Oct 4: The Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik I satellite, which began the Space Race.
1958 Jan 31: First successful U.S. satellite launch, of Explorer I America entered the Space Age.
1958 July 29: President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics & Space Act, creating N.A.S.A.
1959 Jan 2: Launch of Soviet Russia's space probe Luna 1, the first manmade object to fly past the moon.
1959 April 9: N.A.S.A. announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts.
1959 Oct 4: Soviet space probe Luna 3 transmitted images of the far side of the moon back to Earth.
1960 April 1: U.S. launched the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, from Cape Canaveral.
1961 April 12: Soviet 'cosmonaut' Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth.
1961 May 5: America's first sub-orbital space flight launched astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. off-Earth for 15 minutes.
1961 May 25: President John F. Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth."
1962 Feb 20: N.A.S.A. Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, for 4 hours 55 minutes, aboard Friendship 7.
1962 July 10: America's Telstar 1 communications satellite launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1962 Aug 11-12: The Soviet Union sent cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev into orbit for 94 hours in Vostok 3; next day they sent cosmonaut Pavel Popovich into orbit in Vostok 4; both returned to Earth safely on 15 August.
1962 Aug 27: N.A.S.A. launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past the planet Venus in December 1962.
1962 Sept 17: N.A.S.A. announced the next 9 astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, later the first man to walk on the moon.
1962 Dec 13: Launch of the U.S. communication satellite Relay 1 for the retransmission of telephone, televison, and digital signals from space.
1963 May 15: N.A.S.A.'s final Project Mercury flight began, with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper aboard Faith Seven.
1964 July 31: America's space probe Ranger 7 reached the moon, transmitting pictures back to Earth before crashing into the lunar surface.
1964 Nov 28: The United States launched the Mariner 4 'fly-by' mission toward the planet Mars; the spacecraft returned the first-ever close-up photos of the Red Planet in July 1965.
1965 March 18: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov took the first spacewalk, leaving his Voskhod 2 capsule on a tether.
1965 April 6: Launch by the U.S. of the Intelsat 1 communication satellite, also known as 'Early Bird'.
1965 June 3: Gemini 4 astronaut Edward H. White made the first American 'space walk'.
1965 Aug 29: The Gemini 5 capsule, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles 'Pete' Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after 8 days in space.
1965 Dec 4: N.A.S.A. launched Gemini VII with astronauts U.S.A.F. LtCol. Frank Borman and Navy Commander James A. Lovell aboard.
1965 Dec 15: N.A.S.A. launched the two-man Gemini VIa space vehicle which met up with the earlier Gemini VII space vehicle and maneuvered to less than ten feet of each other while orbiting the Earth.
1966 Feb 3: First spacecraft landed on the moon, the Soviet Luna 9.
1966 June 2: America's space probe Surveyer I landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1966 Nov 11: Launch from Cape Canaveral of Gemini XII carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr. and Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr.; the final Gemini mission ended 59 orbits and four days later with a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean.
1967 Jan 27: A flash fire aboard Apollo I during a test at Cape Kennedy killed astronauts Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom, Edward H. White & Roger B. Chaffee.
1967 Oct 19: The U.S. space probe Mariner 5 flew past the planet Venus.
1967 Nov 9: Successful test flight from Cape Kennedy of a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo capsule.
1968 Jan 9: Surveyor VII made a soft landing on the moon, the last of the unmanned explorations of the moon's surface.
1968 Oct 11: Launch of the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7 which flew in Earth orbit until safely splash-landing near Bermuda on October 22nd.
1968 Dec 21: N.A.S.A. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. & William A. Anders blasted off to orbit the moon; they were the first men to leave the earth's gravitational field and the first to see the back side of the moon.
1968 Dec 24: Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from the Old Testament during a Christmas Eve television broadcast while orbiting the moon.
1968 Dec 27: N.A.S.A. Apollo 8 mission nighttime splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 Jan 16: Two manned Soyuz capsules of the Soviet Union became the first space vehicles to 'dock' in space and transfer personnel.
1969 March 3: N.A.S.A. Apollo 9 astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott & Russell Schweickart blasted off to orbit the Earth for ten days; splashdown was March 13, east of the Bahamas, north of Puerto Rico.
1969 May 18: N.A.S.A. Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford & John W. Young blasted off to orbit the moon (and test the lunar lander).
1969 May 26: N.A.S.A. Apollo 10 mission splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 July 16: Liftoff of Apollo 11 lunar landing mission from Cape Kennedy; splashdown was July 24 in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 July 19: The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission went into orbit around the Moon, with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, and Michael Collins on board.
1969 July 20: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong & Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin in the lunar lander 'Eagle' touched down on the surface of the moon at 4:18 p.m. EDT; astronaut Michael Collins remained overhead in the orbiter module.
1969 July 21: Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong left the lunar lander and stepped onto the surface of the moon, joined shortly by 'Buzz' Aldrin - they were the first men to walk on the moon's surface.
1969 July 21: Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong & Aldrin blasted off from the moon's surface aboard the lunar landing module at 1:54 p.m. EDT.
1969 July 24: N.A.S.A. Apollo 11 moon-landing mission splashed down safely in the South Pacific.
1969 Aug 5: The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew past the planet Mars, sending photographs and scientific data back to Earth.
1969 Nov 14: N.A.S.A.'s Apollo 12 mission blasted off for the moon.
1969 Nov 19: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad & Alan Bean made man's second walk on the moon's surface; astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr. stayed overhead in the command module.
1969 Nov 24: N.A.S.A.'s Apollo 12 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 Dec 17: The U.S. Air Force closed its Project Blue Book, concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of U.F.O. sightings.
1970 April 11: The ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the moon blasted off from Cape Canaveral, with James A. Lovell Jr., John L. Swigert Jr. & Fred W. Haise Jr. aboard.
1970 April 13: The explosion of a tank of liquid oxygen aboard Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, severely crippled the space craft; the mission was aborted. Heroic efforts at Cape Canaveral and on-board the spacecraft brought the three astronauts back safely to Earth.
1970 April 17: N.A.S.A.'s Apollo 13 mission splashed down safely in the South Pacific Ocean and was retrieved by the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima.
1971 Jan 31: Apollo 14 blasted off to the moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell & Stuart A. Roosa aboard.
1971 May 30: American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off toward Mars from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1971 July 26: Launch of Apollo 15, America's fourth manned mission to the moon.
1971 July 31: U.S. Apollo 15 crew members David Scott & James Irwin were the first astronauts to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the surface of the Moon.
1971 Aug 7: The Apollo 15 moon mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
1972 Jan 5: President Richard M. Nixon announced that he had ordered the development of the Space Shuttle.
1975 July 17: A manned N.A.S.A. Apollo spaceship docked with the Russian Soyuz 19 spacecraft in orbit, the first linkup of the two superpowers in space; the two American astronauts boarded the Russian craft and visited for two hours.
1977 Aug 20: The Voyager 2 space probe launched toward Jupiter [July 1979] & Saturn [Aug 1981] plus Uranus [Jan 1986] & Neptune [Aug 1989]; currently speeding away from the Sun, the spacecraft is expected to transmit data back to Earth thru the year 2020.
1977 Sept 5: NASA's Voyager 1 space probe launched to Jupiter [March 1979] & Saturn [Nov 1980]; currently speeding away from the Sun, the interstellar probe is still transmitting data as it crosses the 'heliopause' into deep space.
1979 March 5: NASA's Voyager 1 space probe flew past Jupiter, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1980 July 9: NASA's Voyager 2 space probe flew past Jupiter, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1980 Nov 8: Space scientists at J.P.L. in Pasadena announced that N.A.S.A. probe Voyager 1 had discovered a fifteenth moon orbiting the planet Saturn.
1980 Nov 20: NASA's Voyager 1 space probe flew past Saturn, sending back photographs of the planet and its rings & moons.
1981 Aug 25: NASA's Voyager 2 space probe flew past Saturn, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1983 June 13: N.A.S.A.'s space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system, as it crossed the orbit of the planet Neptune; radio transmissions ended in January 2003.
1985 April 12: U.S. Senator Jake Garn [GOP-Utah} became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space as shuttle Discovery lifted off from from Kennedy Space Center in Florida; mission STS-51-D lasted seven days.
1986 Jan 24: NASA's Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1989 Aug 25: NASA's Voyager 2 space probe flew past Neptune, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1989 Aug 27: Launch of the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket from Cape Canaveral, a Delta booster carrying British communication satellite Marcopolo 1.
2003 Feb 1: The space shuttle Columbia exploded 200,000 feet above Texas, on landing approach to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing the seven crew members.
2006 Jan 19: N.A.S.A.'s New Horizons space probe launched from Capa Canaveralto visit the outer reaches of the solat system; the probe flew past former planet Pluto in late 2015 and then whizzed by within 2,200 miles of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (486958) 2014 MU69 at 32,000 miles per hour, 4.1 billion miles from Earth on 1 January 2019.
2008 Oct 22: Launch of India's Chandrayaan-1 unmanned mission, which mapped the moon's surface with radar but didn't touch down; the mission name is Sanskrit for 'moon craft'.
2008 Nov 14: The Moon Impact Probe separated from India's Chandrayaan-1 orbiter and struck the Moon's south pole in a controlled manner, making India the fourth country to place its flag on the Moon; the probe stirred up sub-surface soil that could be analysed for the presence of lunar water ice.
2013 Dec 1: China launched its Chang'e 3 mission to land a spacecraft on the moon; the Jade Rabbit ('Yutu') lunar rover reached the Moon's surface on December 14, making
China the third nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon; Chang'e 3 / Yutu ceased operations in May 2016 after 972 days exploring the Moon. (Chang'e is the name of the mythological moon goddess of China.)
2017 September: N.A.S.A. announced the Dream Chaser Cargo System, its latest reusable space vehicle, which will replace the Space Shuttle program. The craft will be used to deliver cargo to the International Space Station and is currently in early testing. Builder Sierra Nevada Corporation [est. 1963] will start delivering cargo in 2019 and will fly at least six delivery & recovery missions until its contract ends in 2024.
2017 Sept 15: After more than 13 years orbiting the planet Saturn, the Cassini mission was ended by sending the spacecraft crashing into the planet's atmosphere (gathering tons of data as it did so).
2018 May 5: N.A.S.A. launched its InSight spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, sending the unmanned vessel on a six-month journey to Mars; the craft's mission is to use seismic waves to learn about the interior of Mars the thickness of the planet's crust and the size of its liquid core; InSight is also equipped with a probe that can burrow 16 feet into the surface of Mars to take temperature readings.
2019 Jan 1: Just after midnight on New Year's Eve, N.A.S.A.'s New Horizons space probe sailed into the outer edges of the solar system, flying by Ultima Thule (486958) 2014 MU69, 4.1 billion miles from Earth; New Horizons spent years soaring through space, flying past Pluto in late 2015; the probe got within 2,200 miles of Ultima Thule, whizzing by at 32,000 miles per hour.
2019 Jan 3: China successfully landed its Chang'e 4 probe & lunar rover at 10:26am Beijing time on the far side of the moon, at the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the moon's largest and oldest impact crater; the probe sent back its first photo just over an hour later, showing a small crater illuminated by the spacecraft. A lack of radio signals on the far side, or dark side, of the moon means Earth can't directly communicate with the lunar probe, so China launched a relay satellite in May. (Chang'e is the name of the mythological moon goddess of China.)
2019 Feb 21: The unmanned moon lander of Israeli nonprofit company SpaceIL took off from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket; the spacecraft is called Beresheet, Hebrew for Genesis or 'In The Beginning' and will take nearly two months to reach the moon, circling Earth in gradually widening loops until it is far enough out to be caught by the moon's gravity and pulled into lunar orbit; the spacecraft will then attempt to touch down April 11 or 12 in a lava plain called the Sea of Serenity.
2019 April 10: The National Science Foundation held a press conference during which the first-ever photo of a celestial black hole was revealed to the public; the image required years-long efforts from the Event Horizon Telescope project, which used data from several different radio telescopes to compile a high-resolution photo of something that cannot be captured from a single telescope. Controversy arose over the amount of credit due to young computer imaging scientist Katie Bouman; her algorithm was central to the success of the project {fully detailed explanation on this Facebook page}.
2019 July 22: India successfully launched its Chandrayaan-2 unmanned mission to the far side of the moon; the spacecraft took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India's southeastern coast after its first launch attempt a week prior was scrapped less than an hour before liftoff due to a 'technical snag'; the probe is intended as a soft, controlled landing near the moon's south pole to explore water deposits discovered 11 years ago; the mission name is Sanskrit for 'moon craft'.
2021 Feb 19: N.A.S.A. landed its Perseverance rover on Mars, on a mission to determine whether Mars ever supported life; the new $2.7 billion robotic explorer has sophisticated cameras and lasers that can analyze the chemical components of rocks, as well as ground-penetrating radar capable of identifying fossilized microbial life from an era when Mars had plentiful water.
2021 Oct 13: A New Shepard rocket made by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin aerospace company soared to a maximum altitude of 66 miles with four passengers on board for the 10-minute trip; passenger William Shatner, the actor best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on "Star Trek", became the oldest person to fly to the edge of space at age 90. "In a way it's indescribable," Shatner said. "Not only is it different than what you thought, it happened so quickly. The impression I had that I never expected to have is the shooting up: There's blue sky."
2021 Sat Dec 25: Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion project decades in the making; it was designed to find answers to the core questions that have animated astronomers over the past half century and is one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever attempted. The telescope "will peer deeper into the cosmos - and farther back in time - to open a window on the universe as it took shape soon after the Big Bang". Though only roughly the size of a tennis court, the infrared telescope is designed to detect light that was emitted 13.6 billion years ago, at the dawn of the universe - maybe up to as little as 100 million years after the Big Bang. But for it to achieve its potential - nothing less than to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanitys position within it - a lot of things have to work just right.
Quanta Magazine article
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins [1930-2021] served as command module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 moon mission (while Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed below him)
Movies & TV About Spaceflight
"The IMAX Space Collection" DVD box set [2001]
Imax color DVD set [10/2001] 5 disks for $35.99 includes 37-min. "Hail Columbia!" [1982] narrated by James Whitmore; 37-min. "The Dream Is Alive" [1985] narrated by Walter Cronkite; 40-min. "Blue Planet" [1990]; 40‑min. "Destiny In Space" [1994] narrated by Leonard Nimoy; and 40-min. "Mission To Mir" [1997] narrated by August Schellenberg
visionary illustrator Chesley Knight Bonestell, Jr. [1898-1986] of California
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094307/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell
"The Conquest of Space" [1949] by Willy Ley & Chesley Bonestell
http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Space-Willy-Ley/dp/B0000CHRJ9/
"Conquest of The Moon" [1953]
http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Moon-Wernher-Von-Braun/dp/B0007DVW7A/
"Beyond The Solar System" [1968] by Ley Willy & Chesley Bonestell
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Solar-System-Ley-Willy/dp/B000LCESRS/
"The Golden Era of The Missions, 1769-1834" [1974] Paintings by Chesley Bonestell, Text by Paul Johnson
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Era-Missions-1769-1834-Paintings/dp/0877010552/
GoldenEraMissionsCBPJ.jpg
"Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell" [11/1983] by Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Beyond-Art-Chesley-Bonestell/dp/0898651956/
"A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology" [5/1999] by Melvin H. Schuetz
http://www.amazon.com/Chesley-Bonestell-Space-Art-Chronology/dp/1581128290/
"Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future" feature-length documentary [2018]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7343526/
http://www.chesleybonestell.com/
http://youtu.be/tASO0YHxRE4
visionary & scientist Willy Ley [1906-69]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Ley
original 1949 edition of the book "The Conquest of Space" by Willy Ley
rocket scientist Hermann Oberth [1894-1989] of Germany
L i n k s Flight Path Learning Center & Museum at LAX = www.flightpath.US
NATL AVIATION HALL OF FAME >> hrh
http://www.nationalaviation.org/website/index.asp?webpageid={29B403C2-424A-40CE-9A74-0DB137828215}
here on the 'A History of N.A.S.A. in Space' Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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