Book Review: Reality Check
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Dale Skran Title: Reality Check Authors: Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz Format: Paperback Pages: 161 Publisher:
Emily Carney
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Woot! I am here y’allz. Right next to the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC in the Tweetup tent. I can’t quite believe it myself. I
I am here again in Titusville after a semi-arduous but necessary and money-saving bus trip. Excited and ready for fun…of course, watch this space over
Photo from NASA Tweetup at Twitter. Also, Emily C. launches tomorrow morning. On a bus. To Florida’s Space Coast. See you there! Emily Carney is
What I’ll be doing in a couple of days, Stanley Kubrick edition. Hey space peeps. How y’all doing? I am doing quite well. In less
Presented without comment. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This Space Available space blog, published since 2010. In January 2019,
Juno is a solar-powered space probe, unlike its Pioneer and Voyager ancestors which were powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Scaled image provided by
Here’s a cute picture of Apollo 12, because you’re going to need a palate cleanser after reading this blog post. I apologize in advance. 1969
1965 NASA photo. From left, Thomas P. “TP” Stafford and Wally Schirra, prime crew of Gemini 6. Photo located on the great archival Web site
NASA photo from 1981. I’m assuming this was taken after NASA made clones out of the remaining DNA samples of Young and Crippen. Engle and
“Yeah. They said I couldn’t be an astronaut. I got turned down a couple of times, got slapped by a couple of angry stewardesses who
MR-4/Liberty Bell 7 launched 50 years ago this month, carrying Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom. Image via Spacelog. So yeah, you may have
A member of Expedition 28’s crew on the International Space Station took this photo of Atlantis reentering yesterday morning. Check out the bright plasma trail
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