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“Houston Discovery, For the Final Time, Wheels Stop.
It’s been a couple weeks or so since Discovery ended her very last mission and I have been struggling about what to write. As regular readers know, Discovery was the first Space Shuttle I worked on...
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Talk About Chutzpah! Obama to Visit KSC For Endeavour’s Last Launch.
KSC workforce waits for Obama. Credit Florida Today Florida Today reports that Obama is planning to attend the last launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Talk about chutzpah! It was just one year ago...
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“It is in the DNA of our great country to reach for the stars and explore. We...
Those were the words spoken by Commander Mark Kelly just before he lifted off on Endeavour’s final mission. It was a spectacular launch and a spectacular honest statement by Commander Kelly. Many...
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Fading Away Into Mythos
Fading into Mythos Credit Rod Ostoski Mythos is a Greek word meaning story or legend. Many myths throughout culture were just that, myths. But, sometimes, those myths actually had some truth to them....
View ArticleWe Do All We Can Do-Space Shuttle Workforce Tribute
Below is a music video (hat tip goes to Mark Bray of Braynstorms.com) giving tribute to the Space Shuttle Workforce written and performed by Dan Keenan and Kenny McLaughlin who both worked at Kennedy...
View ArticleOur “New” Human Space Flight Program Explained
Mr. Steven White, a regular reader since April of 2010, created a wonderful video explaining Obama and Senator Bill Nelson’s new Human Space Flight Program that is supposed to replace Constellation....
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More Bitter Than Sweet
The last launch. Credit Larry Tanner What can you say? It is the end. The last launch of the most successful American Human Space Flight Program, in fact the most successful HSF program in world...
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America’s Human Space Flight Program 1961 to 2011: An Epitaph
Credit Abby LeMaster July 21st, 2011, just 42 years and one day after the first landing on the Moon, I sat and watched America’s Human Space Flight Program come to an end after more than 50 years. As...
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Two is One and One is None.
NASA and America's New Human Space Flight Logo Credit NASA There is an old saying, “Two is one and one is none.” It means that if you have only one critical item, and that item breaks, then you have...
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Mismatched Models
Most advocates of Human Space Flight programs always model HSF with the airplane model. Government subsidized at first and eventually private for profit companies would take over. Airplane companies...
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