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A few words about mission patches.
Every manned American space mission, since the first Mercury flight has had a...
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Gus Grissom was hungry. Unfortunately, the commander of the Gemini 3...
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Next to get near the moon: who? when...
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Impressive manual docking of Soyuz w...
The media have been describing it as raising serious questions about the...
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America’s second manned space program, the Gemini project, originally...
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Appearing at The Free Library in Philadelphia, a day after the 40th anniversary of his moon walk, Buzz Aldrin spoke out against returning to the moon. “It’s a bad place.” he said. “I ought to know. I’ve been there.” Aldrin spoke before a packed auditorium (and an additional room full of paid simulcast viewers), projecting [...]
Hubble Looking Good!
The repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is, by all reports, going well. The Hubble is 18 years old! The current repair will be the 5th servicing mission. Images from the Hubble have, of course, always excited astronomers. Perhaps equally important, Hubble images have captured the imagination of the public as well. If all [...]
Losing faith in Romania’s launch
I thought of it as improbable…but possible. And it’s still possible. But after so many delays, I’m more dubious than ever about Romania’s first spaceflight. ARCA (the Romanian space group) plans to launch a suborbital flight from a ship on the Black Sea. Yesterday, it was delayed yet again, due to bad weather. Also, the [...]
