Book Review: The Apollo 11 Flight Plan: A Real Script Of Exploration “The Apollo 11 Flight Plan” from relaunch.space is one of the more unusual books that I have “read” […]
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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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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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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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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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The NASA Historian Has Not Read NASA History
Watching Apollo 11 with NASA Historian Bill Barry “What lessons can we draw from the Apollo program to apply to challenges we face now, such as climate change? One of […]
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NASA Historians Plan Stealth History Event
NASA Marshall, University of Alabama in Huntsville to host NASA in the South Symposium March 28-29; Media Invited “Presenters will include Douglas Brinkley, author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy […]
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Sluggish Old NASA Has Forgotten Its Younger Self
NASA chief: Apollo engineers who criticize SLS don’t grok modern rocketry, Ars Technica “Bolden then reiterated that Kraft knew more than him about rockets, but he again qualified this praise: […]
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JSC Is Abandoning NASA History
Keith’s note: NASA JSC is shutting down its Media Research Center. The MRC employees, with more than a century of collective service stretching back to the Apollo era, are being […]