Corned Beef on Rye
If you are ever passing through Mitchell, Indiana, try and take a few minutes out to visit the Virgil I. Grissom Memorial Museum. Here, near the Gemini capsule, close to the spacesuit, helmet and...
Category: 1960s
25th December 1968 – Apollo 8, Christmas Dinner far far away
With the exception of the conspiracy theorists, most people would accept that the Apollo space program of the late sixties and early seventies represented a high point in the exploration of space, with twelve...
5th May 1961 – Alan Shepard has an Inconvenient Call of Nature
A few minutes before 9am on the morning of Friday 5th May 1961 Alan Shepard was lying on a couch. He wasn’t as relaxed as most people are in that situation and there were...
