The Houston premiere of Space Chimps for NASA families Thursday evening put filmmaker Rob Moreland in orbit. When he was about 8, the Houston native commandeered his father's home movie camera to make ...
Enos was the first chimp to be launched into orbit, but he got beat in a race to the big screen. The animated film “Space Chimps” recently made its debut on about 2,600 screens across the country.
When Alan Shepard returned safely to Earth late in the Gagarin spring of 1961, a relieved, ecstatic nation treated him to ticker tape, meet-the-president, and, subsequently, a trip to the moon. The ...