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

* * (Much of this poem was adapted from the words of Michael Collins in his books, “Carrying the Fire”… Read more Mike Collins (1930 – 2021)

*** 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

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

* * “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

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

*             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

Aleksei Leonov, 1934 – 2019 You found yourself in a helluva spot, even if it wasn’t a spot, no place… Read more Tribute to Aleksei Leonov