Counting Down to Apollo — A Personal Record of the Space Race — Est. 1962

Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

Tag: lunar-surface

Apollo 10 May 22, 1969

They Were RIGHT THERE

Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Lunar Module down to 47,000 feet above the Moon today. Eight-point-four nautical miles. They could see the craters. They could see where Apollo 11 will land. They were RIGHT THERE. And then they flew back up. I respect the mission plan. I am…
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Technology June 3, 1966

Surveyor Lands on the Moon

The United States landed a spacecraft on the Moon today. Unmanned, but on the Moon. Softly, without crashing. The first successful American soft landing on the lunar surface.
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