By way of a holiday gift, I've compiled below a list of the Beyond Apollo posts closely related to the Apollo Program. For many people, space exploration began and ended with Apollo. That is, of course, an ill-informed opinion, but I understand the appeal of that program, which drew to a close 40 years ago this month. It was, after all, Apollo 8's 10 lunar orbits on Christmas Eve 1968, 44 years ago today, that turned me on to spaceflight (along with the evocative film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I had viewed only a few months before). Apollo 8 was America's first voyage to the moon; Apollo 17 (image above) was its last. Only four years separated those two missions.
Skylab on the Moon (sort of): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/skylab-on-the-moon-1966/
A 1971 Plan for an Evolutionary Interim Space Program: http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/interim-space-station-program-1971/
Five Options for NASA's (Lunar) Future: http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/five-options-for-nasas-future-1970/
Combining LM Shelter Delivery & Lunar Polar Orbit Mapping (1966): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/combining-lm-shelter-delivery-lunar-polar-orbit-mapping-1966/
Before the Fire: Saturn-Apollo Applications (1966): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/before-the-fire/
Mission to II P 6-1 (1968): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/mission-to-ii-p-6-1-1968/
Alternate Apollo 13 (1970): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/alternate-apollo-13-1970/
Canceled: Apollo 15 and 19 (1970): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/apollo-15-19-cancellations-1970/
Apollo Lunar Orbit Rescue (1965): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/apollo-lunar-orbit-rescue-1965/
Lunar Accident Site Investigation (1967): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/lunar-accident-site-investigation-1967/
Marooned in Lunar Orbit (1968): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/marooned-in-lunar-orbit-1968/
The Eagle Has Crashed (1966): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/the-eagle-has-crashed-1966/
NASA Marshall's Skylab Reuse Study (1977): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/nasa-marshalls-skylab-reuse-study-1977/
Talking to the Farside: Apollo S-IVB Stage Relay (1963): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/talking-to-the-farside-apollo-s-ivb-stage-relay-1963/
Apollo Science and Sites (1963): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/apollo-science-sites-1963/
Robot Rendezvous at Hadley Rille (1968): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/humans-and-robots-meet-at-hadley-rille-1968/
Apollo Space Freighter (1963): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/apollo-space-freighter-1963/
RAND's Apollo Back-Up Plan (1965): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/rands-apollo-back-up-plan-1965/
Skylab Rescue Plan (1972): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/skylab-rescue-plan-1972/
MIT Saves the World: Project Icarus (1967): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/mit-saves-the-world-project-icarus-1967/
Apollo Mission to Tycho (1969): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/apollo-mission-to-tycho-1969/
Destination Mankind (1972): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/destination-mankind-1972/
Starfish and Apollo (1962): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/starfishandapollo-1962/
After EMPIRE: Using Apollo Hardware to Explore Venus and Mars (1965): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/apollotovenusandmars/
Great Balls of Fire: Apollo Rocket Explosions (1965): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/great-balls-of-fire-apollo-rocket-explosions-1965/
S-IIB Interplanetary Injection Stage for Piloted Mars-Venus Flybys (1968): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/s-iib-interplanetary-injection-stage-1968/
1977 Apollo-Soyuz Docking Mission Repeat (1974): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/1977-apollo-soyuz-docking-mission-repeat-1974/
LM Relay Experiment Lab (1966): http://stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/lem-relay-experiment-laboratory-1966/
