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Space Food Circa 1969: 'Houston, We Have A Problem With Lunch'
dvice.com 4 days, 13 hours agoSure, it's quibbling to pick on your packed lunch when you are going to be strapped to the world's biggest roman candle and be launched into space. And of course, the astronauts on the Apollo 10 mission back in May of 1969 did no such thing.
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Marooned In Lunar Orbit
wired.com 14 hours, 7 minutes agoThe Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon on Christmas Eve 1968 decisively demonstrated U.S. superiority in the Moon Race, but it was also one of the riskiest missions NASA ever flew. Just four days after Apollo 8's safe return to Earth, two engineers studied how long the crew might have survived in lunar orbit if their spacecraft's main engine had failed. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this chilling might-have-been.










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