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Apollo 14 Proved Spaceflight Challenges Are Solvable

By Bob Granath | January 31, 2021

Apollo 14 launched 50 years ago, on Jan. 31, 1971. “It’s been a long way, but we’re here,” said Alan Shepard as he stepped from the lunar module onto the Moon’s Fra Mauro highlands. It was more than a 240,000-mile trip – it was a hard-fought return to flight for NASA’s Apollo Program and America’s first person in space.

Resupply Spacecraft Named for First African American Astronaut

By Bob Granath | February 17, 2020

On Feb. 15, 2020, a Northrop Grumman spacecraft was launched atop an Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Cygnus capsule, christened the “S.S. Robert H. Lawrence,” will deliver more than 7,400 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. The name honors the first African American to be selected as an astronaut.

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Apollo 14 Proved Spaceflight Challenges Are Solvable

By Bob Granath | January 31, 2021

Resupply Spacecraft Named for First African American Astronaut

By Bob Granath | February 17, 2020

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