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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Space shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) makes its last landing on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 5:56 AM, July 21, 2011. Photo
Tomorrow morning, space shuttle Atlantis will be landing, winding up 30 years of the U.S. space shuttle program. If all goes as planned, STS-135 should
Video from YouTube, “The Future of NASA with Neil deGrasse Tyson.” “The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to
Space shuttle Endeavour and the ISS docked as seen from a Soyuz capsule, May 23, 2011. Photo courtesy of Paulo Nespoli/NASA. At this time, the
“Dang. NASA is messin’ up mah hair.” Super-tousled John from 1981 in early shuttle-era pressure suit. NASA photo. “Now ah am a painting. Aw shucks.”
STS-135 Atlantis as of 5:50 PM Eastern Time, July 18, 2011. Screenshot by Emily Carney. Of course, STS-135 is the little space shuttle-shaped blip
…Because some astronauts managed to not look completely ridiculous during desert survival training. Jack Swigert brings badassery to the desert, 1967 NASA photo. Emily Carney
A clearly thrilled Frank Borman sends his salutations from space during his Gemini 7 hostage situation mission, 1965. NASA photo. On a serious note, I’d
“Yeah. That’s me, Geno, and TP. We jus’ went to the moon. It ain’t nuthin’.” Apollo 10 egress training, 1969. NASA photo. “We had
“Dang Gus. Ah hope they have some bacon n’ cheese grits at the pre-flight breakfast.” Gus Grissom is probably bewildered by John Young’s Orlando ways
Not Mission Juno’s probe, but an artist’s rendering of when Voyager 2 went all Charlie Sheen during its Jupiter flyby. Depiction by NASA, snarky caption
“Many lament the shuttle era’s end. But that’s misplaced sentiment. Lament instead the absence of an era to replace it.” -Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via
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