Space Shuttle Main Engine – Go For Main Engine Start What you’re looking at is a cavalcade and culmination of hundreds of things all going right, with no room for error. It’s […]
The Many Faces of the Moon A proper blogger would have already written up an entire post and made it live the moment the lunar eclipse of January […]
Atomic Mars I love atomic fireballs. I love that burning sensation of cinnamon. Inevitably you have to take them out of your mouth unless […]
Apollo VIII – 50th Anniversary – UPDATE 12/23/18 UPDATE: So, I refined the design a little more since, as of this writing, Apollo 8 would have been passing into the […]
Falcon Heavy – A Roaring Success So, this week was an exciting one in the realm of rockets. That happens to be a favorite realm of mine. I’ve […]
Falcon Heavy The Falcon Heavy rocket is slated to lift off on February 6th, 2018 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launchpad 39A. This is the […]
Tribute to Apollo IV The year was 1967. Earlier that year a fire had killed three astronauts. There was a degree of uncertainty perhaps and a […]
Spot The Station I was recently asked by a local magazine The Kitchen Draw to write an article about science and/or space. I wrote two […]
MSL Commentary + Simulation A couple of nights ago MSL made a perfect landing that would be the envy of any gymnast. I thought it might […]
Space: The Final Frontier No truer words can ever be spoken. The depths of the mind are indeed complex but not tangible. Our oceans floors hold […]