Book Review: Reality Check
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Dale Skran Title: Reality Check Authors: Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz Format: Paperback Pages: 161 Publisher:
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…The Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. More information about this news at Spaceflight Now. Your thoughts? Feel free to share them in the comments.
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
2012 was the year we conquered Mars again. JPL/NASA photo, taken from the Curiosity Rover. Despite the absence of the space shuttle, space in 2012
European Space Agency (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Image Credit: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Photo optique video du CSG The European Space Agency
International playboy Jack Swigert in a 1966 NASA portrait, featuring an autopen signature. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This
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
Could you love a man who lived with danger? Read on. At the ASF Astronaut Autograph Show this weekend, Francis French had some copies of
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
“What is this about space hipsters? SUMBITCH.” Gene Cernan, Last Man in Your Face™, with me, November 3, 2012. So, I went to my first
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s 2012 Astronaut Autograph Show will take place from Thursday, Nov. 1, to Saturday, Nov. 3. I will be going after the Atlantis
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
The memorial service for Neil Armstrong, held yesterday, September 13, at Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral. Thank you to NASA Television on YouTube for posting this.
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