by Roger Balettie | Sep 24, 2019 | Personal, Space
As with some of my previous reviews, I’m writing this while the movie is still playing in the theaters, so… THERE BE SPOILERS HERE Read at your own risk. You’ve been warned. “An Ambitious Space Epic…” Wow. That struck fear into my...
by Roger Balettie | Aug 23, 2019 | Personal
All about that (Double) Bass It was the Fall of 1974, and little ol’ me was in 6th grade at Joslin Elementary. Like all of my classmates, we were given choices of Fine Arts electives (Band, Orchestra, Choir, etc.) and many of my friends were heading down the...
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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