by Roger Balettie | Apr 1, 2020 | NASA, Space
Apollo 13 As we approach the 50th anniversary of one of the most amazing and, honestly, miraculous chapters of the United States manned spaceflight program, it’s worth looking at some perspectives that may have only been considered from a popular culture angle....
by Roger Balettie | Dec 14, 2019 | NASA, Personal
I know that I have readers who are intimately familiar with the US Manned Space Program, but I also know that I have many who are not – so hopefully this will be a new (and charmingly amusing) story for many of you! Some background: Charles “Pete”...
by Roger Balettie | Aug 11, 2019 | NASA, Personal
A woodpecker did WHAT? Pecking Holes In May of 1995, we were moving ahead with the launch of STS-70. This Shuttle mission on Discovery was to deploy the 7th and final Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) using the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) solid rocket booster. I...
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