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Unraveling Venus
Whenever anyone gets me talking about space and spaceflight, they invariably ask what got me started on ‘all of this space stuff’ in the first place. The short answer is Venus. I became captivated by...
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NASA’s First Interplanetary Journey: Venus
Venus has always held a certain fascination for sky-gazers. It’s the brightest object aside from the Sun and the Moon and it’s been named for three goddesses of love: the Roman Venus, the Greek...
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NASA’s Manned Mission to Venus
In the mid-1960s, NASA was already looking ahead to what it would do after the Apollo program. Where could the organization send astronauts after the moon that would make use of everything it had...
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More Mystery Surrounding Venus
I’ve always been fascinated with Venus, the planet closest to Earth in size that is different in every other respect. It rotates in the opposite direction, not just from Earth but from every planet in...
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Venus’ Transits Through History
Venus passing into the disk of the Sun during the 2004 transit. Credit: NASA In a matter of hours, lucky observers with clear skies will be able to watch Venus pass in front of the Sun. Transits of...
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Kennedy’s Public and Private Thoughts on Apollo
Kennedy during the famous speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962. The full video of the speech is at the end of this article. Image via John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Online...
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