During the Cuban Missile Crisis, six U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusaders flew the first American low-level reconnaissance missions over Soviet missile installations in Cuba on October 23, 1962. Flying at around 400 mph just a few hundred feet above the ground, the unarmed photographic aircraft…
Today in History revisits the Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1968, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of an East Grand Forks man, a Naval Air Corp commander, who was aboard the aircraft carrier Essex and aided in the recovery…
iHeart See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. On this episode of Our American Stories, in the 1950s, the Soviet Union seemed to have an insurmountable lead in the Space Race. American rockets exploded, astronauts lost their lives, and many doubted…
Last Word | Margaret Hamilton: the woman who helped put man on the moon BBC Margaret Hamilton: the woman who helped put man on the moon Available for over a year Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the…
THE Wings and Wheels Society's meeting in Dursley on Thursday, October 8, was very well attended, when speaker Terry Ransome gave us a show titled: Yuri Gagarin and the 'Chief Designer'. The show was a detailed insight into what led astronaut,…
On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham spent 11 days in low Earth orbit, thoroughly testing the Apollo Command…
by Tamika Johnson | Oct 12, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation | 0 comments About seven minutes before Apollo 11’s third stage fired to send it to the Moon on 16 July 1969, the spacecraft was over the open Pacific, far from any ground station. Houston was still…
Scripps News Margaret Hamilton sits in mock-up of an Apollo command module on display at the Cambridge school, November 25, 1969, where she headed the group that programmed the Intrepid spacecraft's pinpoint landing on the moon.
A historic glass-painted shop sign has been uncovered by a couple who are fighting to save a decrepit building after years of neglect. The hundred-year-old sign was discovered by Howard and Anna Green when they were carrying out work on…
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