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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Rethinking How And Who NASA Honors
Keith’s note: Yesterday NASA named its headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. By coincidence Wil Pomerantz, Vice President of Virgin Orbit, started […]
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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 […]
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von Braun @100
Remembering the Nazi Scientist Who Built the Rockets for Apollo, The Atlantic “Few figures in the history of technology provoke a reaction as quickly as Wernher von Braun. The rocket […]