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Informationweek Commentary Building Confidence with Data Resilience As enterprises grow more complex, the need to protect them intensifies. Have the confidence to understand potential weaknesses in your infrastructure and take a data-centric approach to resiliency. Ken Mattingly knows about resilience. Fifty-one years ago, this month, the young astronaut was cut from making a trip to the moon just days before lift-off. Not unlike the way in which COVID-19 has cancelled events and sidelined in...

51 years later, Apollo 13 astronauts reflect on historic mission ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem.’ Rose-Ann Aragon, Reporter Updated:  Tags:  HOUSTON – On April 11, 1970, three astronauts and a team here on Earth dared to attempt what was expected to be the third moon landing. However, just shy of 56 hours into the mission, the crew experienced a problem that would turn into a full-fledged effort to get the crew back to Earth alive. In Houston, Mission Control was led by four flight di...

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NASA Fifty years ago today, on January 31, 1971, at 4:03 pm EST, a Saturn V rocket lifted off from Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center carrying Apollo 14 – the Moon mission that would make or break the US space program. If Apollo 14 is remembered at all by most people, its mainly as the answer to trivia questions like, who was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, or what is the longest lunar golf drive? But it was far more than that. Arguably, it was one of the most importan...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Here’s a look at the Apollo 14 lunar mission on its 50th anniversary [The Orange County Register] Jan. 30—50 years ago this month Apollo 14 blasted off from Cape Canaveral. The mission was delayed for four months after the Apollo 13 mission astronauts did not land on the moon. APOLLO 14 highlights The crew was Alan B. Shepard Jr., Commander, Edgar D. Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot and Stuart A. Roosa, Command Module Pilot. It was the third manned lunar landing mis...

American Aerospace Fifty-two years ago today, three American astronauts departed Earth to become the first men to orbit the Moon during the flight of Apollo 8. This epic mission also featured the first manned flight of the mighty Saturn V launch vehicle as well as history’s first super-orbital entry of a manned spacecraft. Following the Apollo 1 tragedy in January of 1967, the United States would not fly another manned space mission until October 1968. That flight, Apollo 7, was a ...

Of a battery, a radio transmitter and a fanlike cooling device orbiting the earth elliptically every 90 minutes. all the u.s. government could do was ask the 70,000 members of the american radio relay league, a society of ham radio operators or buffs, to help them track the soviet beeps. and as we know, a decade later in the summer of 69, the u.s. beat the russians to the moon, accomplishing the presidents goal. on july 20th, lunar mneil armst became the first person to walk on the moon. buzz al...

>> okay. were all yours. roger. >> communications are somewhat scratchy. columbia and eagle now reunited to become apollo 11 again. >> apollo 11, houston, got minute and a half to los. looking great. been a mighty fine day. >> boy, youre not kidding. >> armstrong and aldrin transferring back to the command module and mike collins. >> houston, this is columbia reading you loud and clear. were all three back inside. the hatch is installed. were running a pressure check. everything is going well. >...

Switching power frequency. power frequency. >> hornet, understand. completed the decontamination in the command module. >> the elevator will take recovery one down to the hangar deck and where the crew will enter the mobile quarantine facility. this control center becoming jammed with people. ive never seen this many people in the control center at one time before. the apollo 11 plaque has been hung in the mission control center. a replica of the crew patch. [ applause ] [ applause ] and the fla...

Stable one. >> your condition? >> our condition is excellent. were just fine. take your time. >> all right. >> that was mike collins reporting the crew was excellent. >> astronaut is in the net. on his way up. command module. >> i have three astronauts aboard.