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D’oh Tuesday
Seems like people both famous and unknown are having difficulties… First up, a mixed one – over the last 50 years, Earth-sent rovers have had difficulty getting around their target environments. In most cases, traction is the big issue even with those cute paddle wheels, and we have rovers stuck on both Mars and our […]
Jim Lovell dies, age 97
Another of my childhood heroes has passed on to his eternal reward. Even if you didn’t follow the Space Race, you’ve probably heard of Jim Lovell. He was the commander of Apollo 13, and was played by Tom Hanks in the movie about their near death experience on the way to the moon. Before Apollo […]
Wait until Fortune Magazine hears what E-1s do for their pay
Fortune Magazine published a piece about the two NASA astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station for nine months. The Boeing Starliner they’d ridden to the ISS on its first manned shakedown cruise left them stuck up there. While SpaceX had the capacity to retrieve them (as NASA has no manned spacecraft of […]
Lowest bid, and slimeballs
NASA..they have accomplished so much, and so little. Their first decade went gangbusters, but by now, private companies are leaving them behind. Still remember some of the lines about ’em from the 60s. Dick Gregory “People ask me why none of the original group of astronauts was black. Well, you’re wrong – there’s 6 white […]
Pride of Iran’s Navy in the news/ News from Mars
Yep, remember not long back Iran was bragging about becoming a real blue-water navy? Going to conduct operations around the world, but most especially in our back yard. Yeah, they’re gonna show us. They’re gonna show us. Well, they showed us: Iranian naval destroyer has sunk while it was being repaired in a port […]
Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut dies
Bill Anders, a retired USAF major general, retired NASA Astronaut, and the taker of one of the most famous photographs of all time has sadly died. Not exactly in the way usually reserved for men who are 90. Anders went out in a plane crash while flying a T-34 Mentor warbird over the San Juan […]
Astronaut Lt Gen Thomas Stafford dies, age 93
For those who grew up idolizing the trailblazers of the space race, the name Thomas Stafford will be familiar. He was part of NASA Astronaut Group 2. Also in Group 2 were several other well known astronauts of the Gemini and Apollo Era (and beyond). Along with Stafford, Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim […]
Astronaut RADM Ken Mattingly, USN passes away
Astronaut and retired two-star admiral Ken Mattingly passed away on Halloween at the age of 87. NASA announced his death on 2 November. For those who came of age during and after the space race, the men of the early American space program will always be heroes and inspirations. Mattingly earned his naval aviator wings […]
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