Last Wednesday marked the beginning of Beyond Apollo's third year as a WIRED Science Blog. To observe this auspicious occasion (and create a useful sampler to which I can refer prospective readers), I had planned to post five of my favorite Beyond Apollo posts each day through this past Saturday. An attempted upgrade of the entire WIRED site intervened, however, pushing my Friday post to today (and my Saturday post to tomorrow).
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Which is, if you think about it, what Beyond Apollo is all about. Except, I guess, it would be space mice and space men (and women) in this instance.
Skylab-Salyut Space Laboratory (1972). Image: Junior Miranda.
Ernst's Ions Week Concludes: NERVA-Ion Mars Mission (1966). Image: NASA.
Mars in 1995! (1980-1981) Image: © David A. Hardy/http://www.astroart.org. Used by permission.
Piloted Split/Sprint Mission to Mars (1987). Image: Science Applications International Corporation/NASA.
Naming the Space Station (1988). Image: NASA.
