Space Forum / Space History / February 2006

Crew Exploration Vehicle Mockup
http://www.andrews-space.com/content-main.php?subsection=MTk4
http://www.andrews-space.com/content-photo.php?photoid=112
This one looks like an interior scene from a 1950's scifi movie

Coming up on the 20th anniversary, I'm beating
my old drum with two suggestions for proper
commemoration:
1. Stop calling it an 'accident'. It was a disaster,

I was watching episode 5 of "Rocket Science", and there was a shot of (I
think) the "next nine". On the table in front were amll, white (probably
wooden) models of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Mercury and Apollo both had
escape towers, Gemini was almost unrecognizable because it ...