by Roger Balettie | Sep 23, 2021 | NASA, Space
13 Minutes to the Moon In an excellent combination of my personal history and passion for space exploration as well as my Anglophile travel leanings, my dear friend John sent me a link to a BBC audio podcast that he had been enjoying. “13 Minutes to the...
by Roger Balettie | Apr 12, 2021 | NASA, Personal, Space
Countdown It’s been 40 years… and the experience still feels like glimpsing the future. April 12, 1981 Columbia sits on launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center ready to lift off on the first flight of the Space Shuttle Program. I was in absolute...
by Roger Balettie | Feb 25, 2021 | NASA, Space
In these times, when a not-unprecedented but definitely generational winter storm overwhelmed my state’s power infrastructure and it’s made immediately polarizing (pun mildly intended) and political, it’s nice to have an event that lifts...
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