Showing posts with label space age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space age. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Artemis II has launched and is on its way to the Moon!

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  Godspeed Artemis II. Or as Walter Cronkite would have said: "Go Baby, GO!!!" Watching Artemis II launch, I felt like a seven-yea...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Dear NASA: Don't launch Artemis II tomorrow

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Dear NASA administrators: I have a member of my family who was part of the team at Kennedy Space Center in 1986.  On January 27th he begged ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Remembering STS-51-L: The final flight of the Challenger

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Forty years ago today came the end of the childhood of my generation. The space shuttle Challenger  was blown to bits shortly after liftoff,...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

"The Eagle has landed."

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Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Today is also 30th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle flight!

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Wow. Lots of history to be commemorated today. Now I'm being reminded that it was thirty years ago today that the first Space Shuttle ...

50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space!

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Longtime readers of this blog know that one bit of history that I'm particularly fond of is Russian space exploration. Say what one mig...
Saturday, May 01, 2010

45 images of a future that never was

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It's almost a half-century later... and we still don't have that personal one-man sub! Or domed cities on Mars. Or cars with inte...