Apollo 6 — The Saturn V Bounces
Apollo 6 flew yesterday, and it was not the clean second Saturn V test everyone hoped for. The rocket experienced severe oscillation and engine failures.
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The Astronauts I’ve Been Getting to Know
I've been reading everything I can find about the astronauts. Not their technical skills — I've been trying to understand them as people.
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The World Is on Fire
The war is everything in the papers right now. The Tet Offensive started last week and nobody sounds certain about anything anymore.
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The Year Everything Will Happen
It's a new year and I think 1968 is going to be decisive. Either we get back on track for a Moon landing, or the goal of before 1970 becomes impossible.
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Saturn V Test — Apollo 4
The Saturn V flew for the first time today. All three stages, no crew, and it worked. The noise reached Washington D.C.
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The Saturn V Shook the Earth
The Saturn V rocket fired for the first time today. Unmanned. All five engines. 7.5 million pounds of thrust. They say people thirty miles away felt it in their chests. They say the sound cracked windows. The cameras at the press site showed the shock wave rolling toward them through…
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The Long Wait
We are waiting. The redesign of the Apollo capsule is ongoing, and there's nothing to do but wait and read and follow the technical reports.
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The Summer of Love and the Space Program
San Francisco is full of young people in flowers, and I've been thinking about what they think of the space program — if they think of it at all.
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The Soviet Unmanned Lunar Program
The Soviets have been running an active unmanned lunar program alongside ours. Luna 9 soft-landed in February 1966. Luna 10 orbited in April 1966. Let me take stock.
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Vladimir Komarov and the Soyuz 1 Crash
The Soviets lost a cosmonaut too. Vladimir Komarov died yesterday when Soyuz 1 crashed on landing, its parachute tangled.
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