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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This video is no longer available. Crip’s all business, while John is a clown. STS-1 25th anniversary talk, 2006. If you ever had doubts...
July 8, 2011. It has been six months since the launch of STS-135. I was there. One of my good friends, Will, and I showed...
If John Young says it’s dangerous, it officially is. NASA photo. Some background on this post: in the space shuttle days, one of the four...
STS-133 launches in February 2011. Photo by the author taken at Space View Park, Titusville, Florida. Despite the end of the space shuttle program in...
The space shuttle Discovery inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center, August 4, 2011. Photo by the author. KSC’s Visitor Center has...
John Young, 1965. He was approximately my age (34) in this Life magazine photo. Happy birthday to Floridian badass and originator of the Blue...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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