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In August 1965, NASA established the program that would follow the first Apollo moon landing. Called Saturn-Apollo Applications, it would have seen more than 30 manned lunar and space station missions using Apollo spacecraft and rockets in the late 1960s/early 1970s. That the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967 killed three astronauts is well known; less so is that it also killed NASA's ambitious Apollo-derived program. Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree describes Saturn-Apollo Application...

Last week, I was lucky enough to get to host the Carnival of Space. This week, the honor goes to Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics, and my article on the 1950s and Fred Hoyle gets top billing! There are a bunch of other highlights to check out. Here are my top 3 CoS picks of the week: