Book Review: The People’s Spaceship
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo
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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
The resulting explosion from the Starfish Prime warhead over Maui, July 9, 1962. Photo from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Death, pretty death! …How could possibly
I know I’ve been bad about updating this blog, so here’s a picture of Jim and Ed to cheer you up. 1965 Life magazine photo.
The launch of SpaceX/Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch early Tuesday morning. At 3:44 a.m. Yeah, I will unfortunately not be going anywhere to view
Yep. So far, it’s a go. I’m going to try to get some pictures at a local beach. Fingers crossed…been crazy busy here, hence the
Gen. Tom Stafford bravely deals with my nervous giggling and dorkiness. April 14, 2012. Photo by me. I’m basically copying this text from my Tumblr
Yuri Gagarin, Ed White and Jim McDivitt enjoy a handshake, mid-1960s. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This Space
I am not worthy. I AM NOT WORTHY, etc. Next Saturday, April 14, Kennedy Space Center will be having an Apollo 16 40th Anniversary Event.
“Yeah. I walked on the moon. So what.” Screencap from When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. Motivation by John Watts Young. John Young, super
I’ve been super-busy in my life outside of aerospace lolz…but I am back! Today is the one-year anniversary of Discovery’s final launch, STS-133. A lot has
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
Before the Old Spice Guy was even alive, Jack Swigert existed. Jack Swigert prepares to get his parachute training on, late 1960s. NASA photo.
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