by Roger Balettie | Jan 24, 2016 | NASA, Personal, Space
30 years on: Lessons from Challenger 30 years on: Lessons from Challenger It’s hard to believe that it was 30 years ago, on January 28, 1986, that the crew of STS-51L were lost on a cold winter morning as the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed from an...
by Roger Balettie | Oct 14, 2015 | NASA, Space
Saving Interstellar Private Watney Spoiler Warning: This review most likely contains spoilers about both the Andy Weir novel “The Martian” and the 2015 movie of the same name. You’ve been warned — if you haven’t read the book or seen the...
by Roger Balettie | Jun 3, 2015 | NASA, Space
50 years of Mission Control Fifty Years The Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has always been the heart of manned spaceflight operations. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first time the MCC supported a space mission – Gemini 4 on...
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