Space Shuttle Atlantis

Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) Mission Highlights

Post author:Erick Brockway/CA
Post published:July 21, 2011
Post category:California History Network Archives Science and Technology

I’ll leave the politics and future (or lack thereof) off for later. This was a spectacular last flight, a lot of people worked hard to bring this off from start to end. I’m going to miss that thing, and the BOOM BOOM when it crossed the coast to land at Edwards AFB a little over [...]

Way cool; Apollo 8 and 11 high-speed camera views of the Saturn V launch

Post author:Erick Brockway/CA
Post published:July 12, 2011
Post category:California Network Archives

I guess watching the last US Space Shuttle mission (STS-135) with the last Shuttle (Atlantis) made me nostalgic. I went looking for the spaceflights I remember watching as a kid, and found YouTube had more than I realized. Seeing the video below of high-speed camera footage of two launches (Apollo 8 and Apollo 11) put [...]