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Dr. Andy Aldrin, son of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, spoke last week at Intermediate Unit 1’s Peters Township campus.
Generation Apollo: Coming of age inside America's space race By: CNN By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN (CNN) -- They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr. Their stories of NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s and '70s are the stuff of legend and lore. The telling has mostly come from the astronauts themselves, or members of Mission Control, and occasionally from the astronauts' spouses. But there was another group who had a front-row seat to history. This is the story of Apollo f...
March 11, 2021 at 2:26 pm The Space Race began in earnest on 4 October 1957, when the Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. Sputnik I orbited Earth roughly once every 96 minutes and was tracked by Soviet scientists for about 21 days, before its batteries died on 26 October 1958. Advertisement The USSR had begun the race to conquer space. On 4 January 1958, Sputnik I fell back towards Earth, burning up on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, but by that stage the Soviets had already launched Sputnik II on 3 November 1957, carrying the dog Laika into Earth orbit. T...