Apollo 17 on the pad: A photo I took with my Kodak Instamatic camera. *** “We’re go for TLI.” For… Read more Artemis One: A personal note
Category: Poetry
John Glenn born 100 years ago
Today, July 18, 2021, would have been John Glenn’s 100th birthday. **** Fireflies Under a hill that appears as the… Read more John Glenn born 100 years ago
Mike Collins (1930 – 2021)
* * (Much of this poem was adapted from the words of Michael Collins in his books, “Carrying the Fire”… Read more Mike Collins (1930 – 2021)
Rene Carpenter, 1928-2020
*** With Annie Glenn’s death this May of Covid-19, Rene Carpenter was the last of the Mercury –don’t call them… Read more Rene Carpenter, 1928-2020
Toward Summer
Toward summer A goal, a finish line, some horizon not so distance though not too near, as we take a… Read more Toward Summer
Fifty years ago: If
A chain of errors leading to the launch of Apollo 13 * If NASA hadn’t decided in 1965 it wanted… Read more Fifty years ago: If
Leaving the moon — a second time
* * “And we’ve got a long day ahead of us.” That’s what Pete Conrad says back at the Lunar… Read more Leaving the moon — a second time
50 years ago this night, a spaceship lands
The Apollo 12 landing site, Surveyor crater center right. * Silent. Dead. It’s waited on the inner slope of a 630-ft.-wide, 50-ft.-deep… Read more 50 years ago this night, a spaceship lands
50 years ago: the hybrid trajectory
Halfway on our way to the moon something is about to happen that did not happen on the previous Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: the hybrid trajectory
50 years ago: Triggered lightning
* We’re going to the moon again. We, the crew of Apollo 12. We’re going to the moon — maybe.… Read more 50 years ago: Triggered lightning
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