Space Shuttle Discovery: Old Friend, New Neighbor, Earlier post, 17 April 2012 “As I sat in my home office in Reston, a few miles from Dulles, and watched the flyover […]
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Nancy Evans
“Nancy Liggett Evans 11/22/1937 – 1/17/2020 was born to M. Margaret and Dr. Robert Samuel Liggett in Denver Colorado. She was married to E. Wayne Bamford bearing a daughter Megan […]
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction Have Sent Us To The Stars
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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Doing Something Again For The First Time
Keith’s note: I first published this two years ago. Yesterday both Jim Bridenstine and Elon Musk noted that they were not alive when humans walked on the Moon – so […]
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Memo: The Army Is Closing A Library That NASA MSFC Paid For
Keithâs note: I guess its time for everyone in Huntsville who is concerned about this to go to the library with a hand truck and check out as many books […]
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Is NASA Going To Have Two Centers Named "Armstrong"?
Ohio senators propose renaming NASA site for Neil Armstrong, AP “Ohio’s U.S. senators want Congress to rename a NASA research facility in Ohio after astronaut Neil Armstrong. Republican Rob Portman […]
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Bad News From Earth
11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, SpaceRef “The news from Earth that morning wasn’t good. Frank Culbertson would soon find that some of the day’s pre-planned routine would be […]
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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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NASA Ignores Its Own Historic Resonances
Keith’s note: 20 July 2019, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the Moon, is also the 100th Birthday of Sir Edmund Hillary. Along with Tenzing Norgay, they became […]
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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 the beginning of time. We are spacefarers. Space technology has its […]