By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was President John F. Kennedy’s idea. In 1961, the president challenged NASA and the nation to land an astronaut on the moon before the decade was over. Russia had taken the lead inRead more
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By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing — the NASA mission that made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first human beings to walk on a planetary body that wasn’t Earth. Of all the Apollo 11 lore, one of my favorite storiesRead more
The large steel vessel, with doors that seal, is called a thermal vacuum chamber. It is used by engineers to test critical equipment designed, and built by Frontier before it is fitted into place on NASA’s International Space Station.
