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- Are We Not Drawn Onward, We Few, Drawn Onward To New Era
It's Thursday, and this week's new Hatbag strip is online. Go check it out. For those ATW readers who don't follow the weekly Hatbag link, a brief explanation -- Hatbag is - Never Forget
Twenty-three years ago today, the 51-L crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger lost their lives in the cause of the expansion of humanity's frontiers. May we never forget the - Homesteading Mention
OK, a little random, but very cool in my mind: Homesteading was mentioned in an article on the relatively new Gawker Media Network science fiction blog, io9. But, and this - Notable
OK, I was amused by this paragraph from an article in yesterday's Huntsville Times about the Apollo Anniversary Gala at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Saturday:Other "Year - Homesteading Update
Another picture from my friend Jordan Walker of Homesteading Space on a shelf ... this time at a bookstore at Yale. Heh. - Konrad Dannenberg, RIP
Per al.com: A NASA spokeswoman from Marshall Space Flight Center reported this morning that Konrad Dannenberg passed away Monday morning in Huntsville at the age of 96. Da - HoaxBusters
Per the Discovery Channel, via collectSPACE: Wednesday, August 27 at 9PM - The Mythbusters take on one of their biggest, most controversial myths ever: Could the July 196 - Space Cowboys
OK, I'm pretty much obligated to blog about the new Louis Vuitton ad featuring Sally Ride, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell. Here's a Wall Street Journal article about the ad, - DaveBusters
I haven't seen the collection personally, so I'm just taking someone's word for it, but apparently the Moon Hoax episode of Mythbusters, which was partially filmed in my - Skylab's Just Fine
Per the Dessert Dispatch: This Saturday marks 30 years since the United States’ first space station, Skylab, fell out of orbit in 1979 and reentered the atmosphere. When i - One Small Strip
Last week's new Hatbag strip is now online. Go check it out! - Mission Madness
(Link) Vote for the greatest NASA mission of all time. - In The Shadow Of The Moon
OK, shamefully, I've just just now finished In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, the second book in the Outward Odyssey space history series. A - 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
(Link) Ah, the good old days. - Delta museum honors bluesman B.B. King
(Link) Good story about the museum and Indianola. - If I Could Turn Back Time
I bought a "new" iPod yesterday; a refurb 80GB Classic. For about a third of what I paid for my iPod photo. Which is kind of amazing, really. But something about an 80GB C - To Boldly Read
Take three basically random facts:In his blurb for the cover of Homesteading Space, noted space journalist Jim Oberg described the book as "a worthy addition to any space - Homesteading Update
Yeah, that's my book, for sale, on a shelf, at a bookstore ... ... at the Smithsonian. Cool, no? Just unbelievable to me. I've been so blessed this year, it's unreal. - Homesteading Update
For the record, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story is now another step closer to publication. A few weeks ago, we received the page proofs; the book laid out as it will - Waste Not
Being somewhat of a pro-am chronicler of NASA's history makes it all the more interesting watching the current developments as the agency moves forward with the new Conste - Free Cover Sunday
Unfortunately, by the time I read about Doveman's cover of Footloose, it was too late to download most of it -- "Footloose" in that sentence being the soundtrack, rather t - Today In History
"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." Celebrate the occasion by playing the incredibly cool Apol - Giant Leaping, Slowly
After the talk this morning by members of the Expedition 15 and 16 crews of the International Space Station, a Marshall Space Flight Center official commented on one of th - As Time Goes By
It's Thursday, so this week's new Hatbag strip is now online. Go check it out. For those ATW readers who don't follow the weekly Hatbag link, a brief explanation -- Hatbag - Zeppo's Gizmo
I really enjoyed this article from the Smithsonian's Air and Space Magazine about an interesting and seemingly unlikely bit of aerospace history:Aside from punchlines, wha - NASA Images
NASA has had several image archives online, but now the agency has teamed up with Internet Archive (which operates the very cool Wayback Machine) to offer NASAImages.org, - The Classics Never Die
Sure, it's going to be cool watching rockets launch for the moon again. In the meantime, we have to settle for the interesting little fragments of coolness that are part o - Mything In Action
This is just a reminder that "my" episode of Mythbusters airs tonight on the Discovery Channel at 8 p.m. CDT. Advanced word is that I don't actually appear in the episode - Fly Me To The Moon
I went and watched "Fly Me to the Moon" in 3-D yesterday. It was about as I expected. As a movie (and reviewing it as an adult watcher, not from a kids' perspective), it - Fanfare
So in one fell swoop, my friend Joe Gurner managed to simultaneously make my forthcoming book Homesteading Space both more and less awesome. Joe composed a fanfare score f - "Homesteading" In Space
Robert Pearlman of collectSPACE shared this picture with me. The guy in white is Richard Garriott, who is the son of one of my co-authors, astronaut Owen Garriott. The s - Flown
Energia, via collectSPACE First, go read this article at collectSPACE about Richard and Owen Garriott; it's very possibly the best I've seen. It has one flaw that Rob shou - One Year Later
The funny thing is, a year ago, I didn't even know I was divorced. Usually, when you observe the anniversary of something, there's an element of remembering that day. I d - OK, Now...
For quite a while now, friends have been wanting to talk about how I'm a "published author," and I've asked that they not use word "published," since the book wasn't actua - Homesteading Update
I've been blogged! Very cool! - Stormtrooper Book Review
Stormtrooper Reviews a Book from Brent Bernasconi on Vimeo. I can only imagine what he would have to say if he continues the series to Homesteading. - Homesteading Review
There's a review of Homesteading Space online now at the Space Coalition Book Review site. I believe the current edition of Smithsonian Air & Space magazine also has a rev - Homesteading Review
Noted space historian Roger Launius has posted a review of Homesteading Space on Amazon, and given us five stars. Very cool! - Bridging Generations
Ever wonder what it would be like to see Neil Armstrong on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise? Well, wonder no more. Armstrong was among several astronauts and mission co - Homesteading Update
OK, today, for the first time, I came across a review of Homesteading Space that I knew nothing about before it was published, from the Rocky Mount Telegram. It's very fla - Merry Christmas!
- Homesteading Update
Another review of Homesteading, from the worlds in a grain of sand blog. In part:The University of Nebraska Press has undertaken a huge series that I have been paying clos - Few from von Braun team left to tell moon race story
(Link) Features quotes from my boss from volunteering at USSRC. - Star City
This article about Richard Garriott's training for his spaceflight next month in the most recent issue of Wired is one of the best I've read on the subject, with lots of i - Apollo 13 Improv
(Link) Sounds like it would be fun. - Ares I PDR
Per Space.com: The rocket slated to launch NASA's new manned spaceship on missions to Earth orbit and ultimately the moon passed a milestone review late Wednesday, space a
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