Apollo 1 memorial is finally in place at Arlington National Cemetery. Long overdue. Kudos to all who made this happen. #AdAstra Alas @NASA hasn't bothered to tell anyone unless you […]
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NASAWatch Is 26
How It Started | How It’s Going Keith’s note: NASAWatch turns 26 on 1 Apr 2022. It started as “NASA RIFWatch” on 1 Apr 1996 with this post “RIF at […]
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History Runs In Circles In Orbit
Multiple Historic Resonances With The Moon Aboard ISS Keith’s update: Four small Apollo 11 Moon rocks that went to the summit of Mt. Everest – with an Astronaut – plus […]
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History Most Certainly Repeats Itself
That Time Wernher von Braun’s Rocket Tried To Kill My Father “Humanity now lives in space permanently. Our spacecraft have left the solar system. Our space telescopes look back to […]
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Erasing Space History Won't Help Ukraine
Some people want to rename @yurisnight because the first human to leave Earth was a Russian named "Yuri". Bad idea. BTW Gus Grissom's middle name was "Ivan". "Looking at the […]
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No One Seems To Care About Apollo – Except NASA
ICYMI #NASA is obsessed with Apollo things that 2 generations of humanity weren't alive to witness & stumbles when it comes to making what @NASA does now & will be […]
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We Remember With Helene and Chris Hadfield
Last Thursday on 27 January, 2022 NASA marked its Day of Remembrance. A time that is set aside to remember those astronauts who died in the line of duty. On […]
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9/11: Bad News From Earth
11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, New Moon Rising – SpaceRef Larger image “The news from Earth that morning wasn’t good. Frank Culbertson would soon find that some of […]
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9/11: Old Flags, Sheer Terror, and Red Begonias
Keith’s note: I have lived in the Metro Washington DC area for 33 years – more than half my life. When I first moved to DC to work at NASA […]
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Building The Tallest Things On Earth
1931: Building the tallest building in the world 2021: Building the tallest rocket in the world#Starship #SpaceX @SpaceX @ElonMusk pic.twitter.com/7s7Ip3tlw3 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 8, 2021