The record-setting auction of a checklist used during the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission has run into trouble, reports Robert Z. Pearlman of collectSPACE.com. Greg Rohan, president of Heritage Auctions in Dallas, said NASA has filed a claim stating that astronaut James Lovell did not have title to the artifact, which sold for $388,375 to an unidentified “east coast collector” after a bidding war Nov. 30.
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NASA Embraces Hollywood, But Not ‘Apollo 18’ [Los Angeles Times]
In an effort to generate public interest in its programs, NASA readily consults on Hollywood projects, including nearly 100 documentaries, 35 TV shows and 16 feature films last year alone. But the agency has pulled back from the documentary-style but fictional lunar thriller “Apollo 18,” which opens Sept. 2, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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The End of the Apollo Era Finally?
I recently finished the manuscript for a new book, “John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon,” and sent it off to the publisher. (Look for it early next year!) In my final chapter, I reflect on the impact of Apollo on the evolution of the U.S. space program in the half century since JFK declared, “We should go to the Moon.” Sending 12 astronauts to the lunar surface was a great achievement and will forever be a proud part of American history. But in my judgment, while Apollo’s impacts on subsequent U.S. human spaceflight activities have been lasting, they have been on balance negative. The reasons why are relevant to the current heated space debate.
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Apollo Legends Pan Obama Space Plan Before Congress
WASHINGTON — Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, told U.S. lawmakers May 12 that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently confided that the federal government may need to fund a “bailout” of entrepreneurial space firms if a commercial market fails to materialize for the crew taxis they are developing under the agency’s new plan.
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NASA: 2011 Budget Puts Exploration on Sustainable Path
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama sent Congress a $19 billion NASA budget proposal Feb. 1 that cancels his predecessor’s Moon-bound Constellation program, commits to operating the international space station through at least 2020, and invests billions of dollars in commercial space vehicles and “game-changing technologies” intended to put the United States on a sustainable space exploration footing.
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NASA: 2011 Budget Puts Exploration on Sustainable Path
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama sent Congress a $19 billion NASA budget proposal Feb. 1 that cancels his predecessor’s Moon-bound Constellation program, commits to operating the international space station through at least 2020, and invests billions of dollars in commercial space vehicles and “game-changing technologies” intended to put the United States on a sustainable space exploration footing.
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Bolden Sworn in Amidst Apollo 40th Celebration
WASHINGTON
— Charles Bolden was sworn in as NASA administrator July 17, one month before a blue-ribbon panel charged with evaluating the agency’s human spaceflight program is slated to brief the White House on options for the future.
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Apollo Astronaut Quits Planetary Society over Priority Dispute
WASHINGTON
— One of the last two astronauts to walk on the lunar surface has parted ways with the Planetary Society for urging the
United States
postpone its planned return to the Moon.
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July 11, 1979: Goodbye Skylab
The mission of Skylab, the United States’ first space station, ended July 11, 1979, with a show worthy of Independence Day fireworks, scattering debris over a wide swath of the Indian Ocean and the coast of Australia when it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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NASA’s Moon and Mars Plan Echoes Apollo Approach
With White House approval secured, NASA is set to unveil a long-awaited human space exploration roadmap that calls for landing four astronauts on the Moon by 2018.
