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
My inauguration poem
The Inauguration Polka I refuse …………….What does it matter if it’s been …………….twenty or twenty-one weeks to mourn… Read more My inauguration poem
My New Year’s Eve poem
Exit Stage Left Tapping a pen out of ink on a desk improvised with a plank spanning an… Read more My New Year’s Eve poem
50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 12 Nov. 11-15, 1966 Walking out to Pad 19, to the waiting Titan II, our Gemini… Read more 50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
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