Space shuttle Columbia arrived on Launch Pad 39A on Aug. 31, 1981, where ground crews prepared it for its second flight into space on the STS-2 mission. In
October 11 – Unknown American rocker Prince opens for The Rolling Stones at their
“Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed.” “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” “Magnificent desolation.” Three phrases
July 11 – The Rolling Stones release “Honky Tonk Woman.”
With President John F. Kennedy’s end-of-the-decade target of landing a man on the Moon approaching, NASA set ambitious goals for 1967 to human-rate the Saturn
January 28 – The Rolling Stones release “Let’s Spend the Night Together.”
NASA Technical Memorandums (TM), NASA Technical Publications (TP), and NASA Contractor Reports (CR)
Stebner, Rolling contact fatigue deformation mechanisms of nickel-rich nickel-titanium-hafnium
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Alan L.
Bean retrieved the SWC experiment, overcoming difficulties in rolling it back up.
