book notes – Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz
For about four years (before I was in kindergarten until the 2nd grade) my family and I lived in Indian Harbor Beach, Florida, which is just a few miles from Cape Kennedy. The first...
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Viewing the International Space Station
We saw the International Space Stations (ISS) as we drove from Houston to Austin Monday evening (10/16/17) at about 7:50pm looking at the NW horizon. At first we saw lots of planes and stars...
great geek job #17: driving NASA Mars Rover
Since I might be slightly too old to be an astronaut (although the specs don’t rule me out for degree, corrected eyesight, height or resting blood pressure!), another cool job would be to virtually...
Drinking at Nasa, Ted Kennedy, blogging 79-year-olds and our future in space
I live near Houston, and anything to do with NASA makes the headlines here (when there are no hurricanes or Enrons to distract us). My father used to chase Apollo rocket stages down in...