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30 years ago today 10-year-old me was sitting in front of our 12-inch black-and-white TV watching the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. It’s safe to say that everyone else in the country was doing the same. Even though we had only 3 TV channels at that time and many [...]
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Yesterday marked 35 years (very old I am) from the launch of the Soviet-American joint space mission Souyz-Apollo.
TIME cover 07-21-1975 "Space Spectacular" US-Soviet space Link-up. ©Time
(L-R) American astronaut Deke Slayton and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov frolicking during US-Soviet Apollo Soyuz linkup.©Time
US Astronaut Thomas Stafford (L) w. [...]