The cover of Countdown‘s return-to-flight issue, October 1988 ***** Part 4: Is the dream alive? As the months passed after… Read more A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 4
Category: Essays
A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 3
The cover of the July 1986 issue of Countdown, covering the investigation into the Challenger accident. ***** Part 3: Tuesday,… Read more A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 3
A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 2
The cover of the first issue of Countdown, July 1983 ***** Part 2: Live from the press site I was… Read more A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 2
A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 1
July 15, 1975: The final Saturn launch. My daily journal, still going, starts here. ****** Part 1: From Apollo, the… Read more A farewell to the Shuttle program, Part 1
What’s old is new again: voices from Gemini 5
Sixty years ago: An artist’s rendering of the Radar Evaluation Pod floating in front of the nose of Gemini 5.… Read more What’s old is new again: voices from Gemini 5
Influenced from above
Only an accident gave us pictures of a Gemini capsule in flight. If all had gone by the plan, Gemini… Read more Influenced from above
The needle and the damage (not) done.
Essays: Lately I’ve been rummaging through musty boxes in the basement and dusty in the back of the garage,… Read more The needle and the damage (not) done.
As the century turns
Essays: I’ve been hit by waves of nostalgia for those distant days at the turn of the century, 2006… Read more As the century turns
Anniversaries & a beginning
Introduction: Anniversaries and a beginning January 17th I live for anniversaries of all kinds, my way of keeping the… Read more Anniversaries & a beginning
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