The first Saturn V was launched 50 years ago today The journey that would culminate in the first moon landing… Read more First motion
Author: etiptree
“Ride ’em, cowboy!”
Dick Gordon on an EVA during Gemini 11. Richard F. Gordon, member of the third group of astronauts, pilot… Read more “Ride ’em, cowboy!”
60 years ago: the Space Age begins
On October 4, 1957, Sputnik opened ‘The Space Age’ . . . So when did it end? Sixty years ago… Read more 60 years ago: the Space Age begins
Cassini goes rogue!
Something strange is happening at Saturn. Little more than 12 hours before NASA planned to send the Cassini probe plunging… Read more Cassini goes rogue!
A measure beyond months
Voyager’s 40th anniversary Don’t call it the Grand Tour. The Grand Tour, four spacecraft richly equipped, costing nearly a billion… Read more A measure beyond months
Rollout!
Fifty years ago Dawn always appears as the primeval hour, one suitable for giants and dinosaurs. And never more… Read more Rollout!
Three shorts
The Spirits of the laws (title stolen from Czeslaw Milosz) A crowd gathers at the edge of a… Read more Three shorts
Chuck Berry tribute
Sunday morning after Sunday night This morning I’m playing Chuck Berry, as we all should. Last evening as… Read more Chuck Berry tribute
Two March Poems
The month of March got ya down? Here are a couple poems to fit the season… * * * Footsteps… Read more Two March Poems
50th Anniversary of Apollo
*********** January 27, 1967 I would have just finished dinner, perhaps leaving a tough bit of salisbury… Read more 50th Anniversary of Apollo
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