Book Review: Space Ace
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author:
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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