Keith’s note: On 19 May 2009 at 6:15 pm EDT (20 May 4:00 am Nepal time) Astronaut Scott Parazynski stood on top of the world with piece of the Moon. My old, officially voided, damaged NASA badge (and a picture of astronaut Sunni Williams’ dog Gorby) went along while Miles O’Brien served as our news anchor back in New York. Each of us has gone through a lot in the […]
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 the first humans to stand atop the highest point on our planet, Mt. Everest. in 1953. Years later Hillary became friends with Neil Armstrong and the two of them travelled to the North Pole together in 1985. In 2009 Astronaut […]
Keith’s note: On 19 May 2009 at 6:15 pm EDT (20 May 4:00 am Nepal time) Astronaut Scott Parazynski stood on top of the world with piece of the Moon. My old, voided, damaged NASA badge (and a picture of astronaut Sunni Williams’ dog Gorby) went along while Miles O’Brien served as our news anchor back in New York. Each of us has gone through a lot in the subsequent […]
#OTD 2009 @AstroDocScott makes his final ascent upward heading slowly but methodically toward the summit of Mt. Everest. Along the way he discovers an oddly-numbered oxygen tank. #Everest #Himalayas #Nepal pic.twitter.com/8MyfiP5dtC — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 17, 2019 #OTD 2009 while @AstroDocScott makes a final push toward the summit of Everest @KeithCowing recovers from food poisoning & does website updates including NASAWatch at 17,600 feet (7.5 psi) with only 50% […]
In 2009 @AstroDocScott (Scott Parazynski) became the first astronaut to summit Mt. Everest. Today a second astronaut, Maurizio Cheli, reached the summit as well. We now have two real Skywalkers. pic.twitter.com/3Z2Lg95kaT — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 17, 2018
My Star Trek Episode at Everest “In late April 2009 I found myself at Everest Base Camp for a month. I was living at 17,600 feet in Nepal 2 miles from China and 2 miles from the highest point on our planet. I was surrounded by the epic majesty of the Himalayas, a thousand people supporting several hundred Type A individuals with a shared intent to summit the mountain and […]
The best explorer autobiographies deal equally with inner and external challenges. In “The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed” Scott Parazynski strikes a perfect balance between the two facets of what goes into the making of an explorer – on and off this planet.
(more…)Review: “The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed” by Scott Parazynski with Susy Flory
(more…)ISS Solar Panel Rip, Secret Space Escapes, (Video) Science Channel How Astronauts Cope When Things Go Wrong in Space, Mental Floss “Scott Parazynski is no stranger to dangerous situations and extreme environments. The astronaut/doctor/inventor/pilot has summited Mount Everest and gone SCUBA diving in a volcano. But it’s his last spacewalk that sticks in his mind. Parazynski was up on the International Space Station in 2007 when a hole appeared in […]
From A Risky Spacewalk To The Top of Mount Everest, Popular Science “Parazynski just seems to be wired differently than many of us. His pursuit of extreme environments seems to know no bounds. In addition to being an astronaut (who has completed five space shuttle missions, seven space walks and spent 57 days in space), Parazynski is also a medical doctor, scuba diver, pilot, speaker and mountain climber he’s the […]