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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UARS is scheduled to reenter sometime between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. September 24. It may reenter over parts of Canada, Africa and Australia. Here’s
This is what the satellite which is falling from orbit – the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite – looks like. So if you see this in
John Young looking superfly in 1972 following Apollo 16. Photo from Retro Space Images on Facebook. Okay, NASA announced several new prospective launch vehicles this
Joe Kerwin makes a perfect sphere of water out of a straw in Skylab, 1973. NASA photo. I was linked in a blog post by
GRAIL and its Delta II launch vehicle at LC-17B on September 8, 2011. Photo credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley. So, I am up and it is
“Oh thank you, I seriously thought I was going to jail over my taxes. Now I can go back to my normal everyday activities, which
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,
Deke Slayton talks to Alan Shepard during Al’s 1961 suborbital flight like a boss. Life magazine photo. First, the good news: I have an awesome
Gus Grissom’s facial expression above sums up my reaction to the newly-released Apollo 18 movie. 1959 photo from Life magazine. Yes, I did pay $10
According to Space.com, NASA officials announced this morning the ISS might be de-crewed (unmanned) staring in November due to the recent Progress launch vehicle failure.
It’s been kind of a crazy week everywhere for pretty much everyone, so I am going to keep this post short and sweet. According to
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project crews. From left, Apollo’s crew consisted of Donald “Deke” Slayton (a Mercury 7 astronaut), Thomas P. Stafford, and Vance Brand. Soyuz’s crew
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