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The TransEarth Injection, TEI, was planned for just after midnight on Christmas Day. A successful burn would put Apollo 8 on its way back home and Houston control listened carefully for the astronauts...
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Nine hundred miles southwest of Hawaii at 9:31 AM (Houston time), the USS Yorktown (CV-10) awaited the splashdown of Apollo 8 just off Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. Unlike previous missions, the...
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Our volunteers are key in helping bring the ships and aircraft of Patriots Point to life. Our first volunteer profile is on former World War 2, Marine Corps Dauntless and Corsair pilot Bill Cart. Born...
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The Yorktown comes alive during each cold or warmer morning from 22 January to 05 March as Patriots Point and the USS Yorktown (CV-10) host over 1400 fifth graders and their teachers from thirty-one...
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Every weekend onboard the USS Yorktown, scout troops camping aboard have the option of working on their aviation merit badge. At each class, the scouts also have the opportunity of earning a Top Gun...
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It has been a very cold, windy week here at Patriots Point. I don't remember a couple of colder days in the past ten years (30's daytime, 20's at night), but the weather today is trending back towards...
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"Call the ball," is the traditional welcome of the LSO (Landing Signal Officer) to an arriving pilot attempting to land aboard a very small, pitching deck at sea. Welcome to the first blog onboard the...
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Today I met the granddaughter of Henry E. "Red" Erwin. Jennifer Michaels and her two sons, David (6) and Will (3), were here to visit the Congressional Medal of Honor museum, while her Air Force...
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Our volunteer profile this month is on Merchant Marine Bob Barkus. His father and mother immigrated to New York City from England in 1926. Bob was born in Brooklyn July 1928. He was 13 when Pearl...
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[/caption] Oh Mother, dear Mother, take down that blue star; Replace it with one that is Gold. Your son is a Wildcat pilot, He'll never be thirty years old. (WW 2 Author unknown) Pulled from the...
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On 17 July Das Boot begins a 3 night run with submarine tour at Patriots Point... details here...torpedoes are the submarine's weapons of destruction, today we'll look at our modern torpedoes, which...
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On 08 July 1953 the "CVS" designation was established by the United States Navy to identify aircraft carriers dedicated to antisubmarine warfare missions. The first carriers to have their designations...
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The second living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the war in Afghanistan received his medal in ceremonies at the White House yesterday, 12 July. The new recipient is Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy...
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas The Space Shuttle was born on 05 January 1972, when...
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[/caption] On 15 July 1953, the USS Tunny SS-282 would become the first submarine to launch a Regulus cruise missile. The Regulus cruise missile development began in 1947 and it was built by the...
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On 18 July 1966, astronauts John Young and Michael Collins launched on the mission of Gemini X, the 8th manned Gemini flight, the 16th manned American flight and the 24th spaceflight of all time...
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[/caption] On 20 July 1969 one of the most amazing events in the history of mankind happened, when Americans Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the moon! At 3:06 PM, Central Time, Eagle (lunar...
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Shuttle Atlantis has now landed back on American soil and for the present future no Americans will return to space from our homeland. Mission control is shutting down and laying off 900 workers. The...
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On 22 July 1916 the Director of Naval Aeronautics mandated the following thirteen (13 - guess they weren't afraid of bad luck) instruments to be installed on naval aircraft. Notice that the...
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On 25 July 1927 Lieutenant Carleton Cole Champion, Jr., set the world altitude record in a Wright Apache aircraft by reaching 38,419 feet. This record would stand for two years. Champion had set the...