When the astronauts from NASA’s Gemini, Mercury and Apollo space programs returned from their successful missions in space, they were more famous than movie stars and more idolized than sports athletes. Only one car would be good enough for these celebrated heroes, the American icon, the Chevrolet Corvette.
Neil Armstrong drove a Corvette. Six other NASA astronauts drove a Corvette’s and the crew of the Apollo space mission all had matching black on gold C3 Corvettes, of which only one exists today.
Join Motor Trend’s Arthur St. Antoine as he, accompanied by former Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham, embarks on a cross country trek in a 2014 Corvette Stingray from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Johnson Space Center in Houston in the latest episode of Epic Drives. The pair talk Corvette’s, NASA history and space exploration. Check it out in the 22-minute long video below.
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Years ago a lot of the graduating officers from the Air Force Academy would fly into NE Indiana and purchase new Corvette’s from Maxton Motors in small town Butler Indiana. Liberace would also purchase new Buicks there and they would paint piano keys on the front fender for him. I have no idea how this small town (pop. a few thousand) dealer landed these plum sales.
I would have lent him my Z51 (unlike this base one) 2014 Velocity Yellow C7 Corvette if he had asked. Great video!