The History of Space Flight

My recent studies have lead me to the histories of space flight. Since it is timely, I have begun with a survey of NASA's Project Apollo, as mandated by President Kennedy in 1961. Here you will find a collage of information about the Apollo program and its missions, as well as information and links about other manned space flight and rocketry in general.

• A Short History of Rocketry
• Launch Vehicles
• Important Personages in Space Flight
• The U.S. Manned Space Programs
• The U.S.S.R./Russian Manned Space Programs
• Unmanned Space Programs
• A Timeline of Manned Space Flight

Links of interest

• Space exploration for the mankind, Berlin 1997

  NASA Links

  • The History of NASA, rich in details on the astronauts and NASA itself
  • NASA Public Affairs, an excellent starting point to other NASA web pages
  • NASA Apollo 11 Web Exhibit, The first of many future "rotating" exhibits.
  • NASA Archives, photo, audio, and video archives
  • Kennedy Space Center
  • Johnson Space Center
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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  Images

  • Full Moon with Apollo mission labels (80K JPEG)

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