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Manned Asteroid Flyby Mission
wired.com 3 weeks, 3 days agoAsteroids often arouse fear when they should really arouse fascination. Relics of the early Solar System, they contain clues to the formation of the planets. In 1966, a Northrop Space Laboratories engineer proposed a piloted flyby of the near-Earth asteroid Eros to prepare astronauts for voyages to the planets. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this early plan for a manned asteroid mission.
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Gemini On The Moon
wired.com 4 weeks agoPresident Kennedy's Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner and NASA split over how Apollo should land men on the moon. Though NASA moved ahead with its chosen mode, Lunar Orbital Rendezvous, it hired contractors to study Wiesner's favorite, Direct Ascent. JFK supported NASA's choice; if, however, he had sided with his Science Adviser, an Apollo spacecraft derived from the two-man Gemini Earth-orbital spacecraft might have landed on the moon.
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