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:
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In 1968, these three goobers spent a week pretending they were in space. But why? Read on. NASA portraits. From left, Joe Kerwin, Vance Brand,...
Pete Conrad does typical Pete Conrad stuff, 1965, in preparation for Gemini 5. Thanks to Retro Space Images for this amazing photo! Emily Carney is...
“If you take more blood from me, Joe, I am so gonna ban you from the beer spigot.” Pete Conrad submits to a dental checkup...
I can smell them from almost 46 years back. Gemini 7 returns from spending two weeks in a floating toilet, December 18, 1965. Life magazine...
This video is no longer available. Video created by Emily Carney. LEGAL NOTE: All photos by NASA. Song is “This Is It” by Kenny Loggins...
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...
Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green. Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA Scientists using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the...
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...
Atlantis Reentry as seen from the International Space Station Image Credit: NASA Atlantis Cockpit View of Kennedy Space Center Image Credit: NASA TV Atlantis Approach...
“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.”...
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