Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
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A clearly thrilled Frank Borman sends his salutations from space during his Gemini 7 hostage situation mission, 1965. NASA photo. On a serious note, I’d...
“Yeah. That’s me, Geno, and TP. We jus’ went to the moon. It ain’t nuthin’.” Apollo 10 egress training, 1969. NASA photo. “We had...
“Dang Gus. Ah hope they have some bacon n’ cheese grits at the pre-flight breakfast.” Gus Grissom is probably bewildered by John Young’s Orlando ways...
Not Mission Juno’s probe, but an artist’s rendering of when Voyager 2 went all Charlie Sheen during its Jupiter flyby. Depiction by NASA, snarky caption...
“Many lament the shuttle era’s end. But that’s misplaced sentiment. Lament instead the absence of an era to replace it.” -Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via...
About 6:00 AM at the Rotary Riverfront Park in Titusville, Florida, July 8, 2011. At left, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is perched on its launchpad....
STS 135 Atlantis launches, ending the magnificent 30 year run of the world’s most amazing machine. Photos by Emily Carney. Emily Carney is a writer,...
I am here. Right now they are fueling the shuttle Atlantis which looks very promising. The weather is still iffy…30% chance of launch due to...
My festive wear for Friday. Space + Peyo = For The Win. Photo by Emily Carney. As we approach the eve of the final ever...
Commander John Young and pilot Bob Crippen do their pre-flight swagger-walk to breakfast, April 1981, prior to STS 1. Also, this… John Young, center, eyeballs...
From nasa.gov: “Sunrise at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida finds space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A after the payload canister carrying the Raffaello...
Buzz Aldrin does some weird lurching dance, while Mike Collins and Neil Armstrong remain unimpressed. 1969 Life magazine photo. Initial 1969 rehearsals for “Dancing With...
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