As the Shuttle program winds down, a new space race between private companies is beginning. Jay Barbree, not a journalists I would consider in the ‘new space’ camp, covers the players and actually manages to seem enthusiastic about the next era in space exploration. Fifty years ago, President John Kennedy challenged the old Soviet Union [...]
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The New Space Race
Posted by David Parmet on May 17, 2011
http://www.backyardstargazer.com/2011/05/17/the-new-space-race/
Speaking of Space
Fifty years ago today Alan Shepard because the first American to fly in space. Flying in a cramped Mercury capsule with no window and only rudimentary controls, his historic flight lasted 15 minutes from launch at Cape Canaveral to splash down in the Bahamas. Today, only 50 years later, we have a permanently staffed space [...]
Posted by David Parmet on May 5, 2011
http://www.backyardstargazer.com/2011/05/05/speaking-of-space/
Quote of the Day
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space–each discovered, studied and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. Randall Munroe link
Posted by David Parmet on May 2, 2011
http://www.backyardstargazer.com/2011/05/02/quote-of-the-day/
