Beyond Apollo started in 1996 as a website called Romance to Reality, took a break in 2006, and resumed as the Beyond Apollo blog in 2009. Two years ago today, Beyond Apollo launched anew as one of the family of WIRED Science Blogs.
To celebrate this milestone, I am posting links to five of my favorite posts each day through Saturday. I started this past Sunday. This week amounts to a second-anniversary review. Explore these links and you will delve deeply into the serious space history world of Beyond Apollo.
Rocket Belts and Rocket Chairs: Lunar Flying Units (1969). Image: North American Aviation.
Landing Soyuz Lifeboats in Australia (1992). Image: NASA.
Earth-Approaching Asteroids as Targets for Exploration (1978). Image: NASA.
Integrated Program Plan Maximum Rate Traffic Model (1970). Image: NASA.
Mars Sample Return: Vive le retour des échantillons martiens! (1999). Image: ESA.
