Twenty Years, and Godspeed
On this day, twenty years ago, seven of the best and brightest vanished from the world in a flash of light. Although there had been deaths before,...
Posts tagged "events"
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In review
Looking back over the year just past, i’ll be the first to admit there’s been a staggering amount of fascinating news, but there have been some...
Please land...
Today, a third nation joined the US and USSR in the very exclusive group of spacefaring nations. I disagree with China in so many things, from...
A black day
About two hours ago, as i write this, the NASA space shuttle Columbia lost contact with mission control while coming in for a landing. As of this...
Too long to wait
It's been thirty years since Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans last took Apollo 17 to the moon. In the intervening years, the...
Goodbye...
There's this piece of metal, see, and it was sent out thirteen years ago with the intent of learning more about the hunks of rock that share the...