by Roger Balettie | Sep 19, 2016 | NASA, Personal
OV-102 and me In April of 1995, while working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as a Flight Dynamics Officer, the Space Shuttle Columbia made an overnight stop at Ellington AFB, just down the road from JSC. Columbia had undergone a planned nearly year-long Orbiter...
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...
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