The Space Shuttle

Dec 23

The Space Shuttle

On 12th April 1981, I was an 11 year old boy. I sat an watched in awe as Columbia made the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle. It looked not entirely unlike this. Columbia Taking Off The coverage of the launches in those days wasn’t quite as sexy as it is now. You got the whoosh up into the sky for 90 seconds or so and that was about it. None of the on board...

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Armstrong or Cernan?

Jun 22

Looks like the world is waking up again to the greatness of Apollo again. Perhaps my dull space related ramblings herein will be scoffed at less now. Perhaps not. Anyway, I was watching some of the various Apollo/Moon related coverage last night (who’s surprised?) and a question occurred to me. If you could choose, would you rather be the first or last man on...

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