The Space Age at Sixteen
It has been sixteen years since Sputnik. I was 32 years old then, a man in a bathrobe in Ohio staring up at an ordinary sky. Now I'm 48.
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Sixty Days in Space — Skylab 3
Al Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma have been in space for thirty days now on Skylab 3, with thirty more to go. What are they actually doing up there?
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My Neighbor Harold Goes to the Hospital
Harold had a minor heart attack last Tuesday. He's going to be fine, the doctors say. He asked me from his hospital bed if anything important happened with the space program while he was in.
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Skylab Saved — A Repair No One Planned For
Skylab launched on May 14 and immediately began falling apart. The first crew delayed their launch to plan a repair. They fixed it.
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My Last Entry for a While
I've been keeping this notebook since 1957. The Apollo program is over. Skylab is still going. I'm going to write one more time before I put it away for a while.
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Skylab Is Coming
The Skylab space station launches in May and the first crew follows in June. After Apollo, this is what's next for American human spaceflight.
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Pioneer 10 Is Leaving Earth’s Neighborhood
Pioneer 10 launched in March and is now the fastest human-made object, heading for Jupiter. It will be the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and the first to visit Jupiter.
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Counting Down to the Last Landing
Apollo 17 launches in December. Gene Cernan will command, Jack Schmitt will walk on the Moon, Ron Evans will orbit. This will be the last.
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Deke Slayton Gets His Turn
Deke Slayton, grounded since 1962 because of a heart arrhythmia, has been medically cleared to fly. He's been assigned to the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
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What Comes After Apollo
Apollo 17 is the last lunar landing mission. Nixon has approved a space shuttle program. But what does the post-Apollo era actually look like?
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