Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
Apollo
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From NASA: “This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), shows one of...
From NASA: “An overhead view of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM)...
Ah yes, when the dreaded chest pain strikes while you’re wearing a Speedo: Hot Mess Flight “Steve Bell” aka Robert Culp gets ready to writhe...
“He’s not heavy, he’s my brother”: Jim Worden wheels Al Worden around at Al’s 50th birthday party in 1982. The wheelchair was a joke. The...
Al Worden’s family waves goodbye to him prior to his launch to the Moon in July 1971. He is flanked by crewmembers Dave Scott (front)...
Plaque at LC-34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Sunday, January 27, 2013. Photo by me. On Sunday, January 27, I was honored to have...
The original Disembodied Dave Scott Head as seen on TV, flanked by a nonplussed John Young and Charlie Duke, April 1972. Photo by Retro Space...
40 years ago, the last Apollo moon mission lifted off, carrying Gene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Ron Evans to Taurus Littrow. Here’s great launch...
When smoke gets in your eyes: 1965 Life magazine photo. In September, John Young’s autobiography Forever Young, edited by Neil Armstrong’s biographer James Hansen, was...
Me talking Apollo 12 party times with Dick Gordon (left) and Sweet Al Bean (right.) Thank you, Kristen, for taking this photo! ALAN BEAN (Apollo...
Al Worden engages in some awesomely WTF behavior circa 1967. Photos from Falling to Earth’s page on Facebook. Yes, he is drinking a beer. So...
“This docking adapter is a sonofabitch. F–k it.” Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford, cuss word architects, 1966. So I’m currently avoiding writing about the NASA...
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