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
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My Father's Day Story
That Time Wernher von Braun’s Rocket Tried To Kill My Father Keith’s note: I thought Father’s Day might be an appropriate time to repost this story. “As best I can […]
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Review: The High Frontier: The Untold Story Of Gerard K. O'Neill
The High Frontier: The Untold Story Of Gerard K. O’Neill: A Review As the size of satellites shrinks and the ubiquity of the technology expands it is close to being […]
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My STS-1 Story
Video of #STS1 launch #OTD 12 April 1981 At 3:47 you can see @SenBillNelson in the VIP area shouting "GO". I was standing 10 feet away (I was Jerry Brown's […]
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Nichelle Nichols: Woman In Motion
Woman In Motion, Star Trek And The Remaking Of NASA – A Review, SpaceRef “You know that you have been involved with something beyond living memory when you find yourself […]
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NASA Is Forgetting Its Own History (Update)
Keith’s update: NASA just released this statement. After decades of holding an event at Arlington National Cemetery, NASA will not allow the public or media to attend the event at […]
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Another Space History Resonance From 75 Years Ago
Keith’s note: As you may recall last year I posted a story “That Time Wernher von Braun’s Rocket Tried To Kill My Father” about my father’s near brush with death […]
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NASA Still Honors A Nazi Who Used Slave Labor To Build His Rockets
Rethinking How And Who NASA Honors, earlier post “At a time when everyone seems to be taking a hard look at commemorating past events with a light shone on racism […]
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The Greatest Generation – And The Artemis Generation
Keith’s note: I am currently writing a piece now about the so-called “Artemis Generation”, a phrase coined by NASA. Will they rise above things that now confront them or succumb […]