Category Archives: Space

Waverider On The Loose

August 15, 2012 – 10:02 am

Until the advent of the steam engine the speed of man relied on our own muscles or those of a saddled horse. That barrier has been successively broken by trains, cars, planes, and rockets with the aim of getting someone somewhere somehow faster than before and yesterday the Pentagon launched the X-51 Waverider from a […]

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The Mission Ahead

August 9, 2012 – 7:55 am

Cape Kennedy was the epicenter of America’s Space Race with the USSR. The triumphs of Alan Shephard piloting a Mercury-Redstone 15 on a sub-orbital voyage and Apollo 11 moon landing originated on its launch pads as well as the tragedies of the Challenger and Columbia. NASA shut down the space shuttles last year and last […]

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Earthlings Go Home

August 9, 2012 – 7:30 am

Walt Disney Pictures lost about $160 millions on JOHN CARTER OF MARS, despite worldwide ticket sales of almost $300,000,000. Mediocre reviews of the sci-fi adaptation of a Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel in tough economic times doomed the movie at the box office. BBC film critic Mark Kermode stated, “The story telling is incomprehensible, the characterisation […]

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Trash in Space

June 28, 2012 – 8:46 pm

My friend Eddie Mickie weighed more than 300 pounds. He was the only fat person in Bethpage. Everyone else was thin. The year was 1971. Eddie was so heavy that his weight bend the frame of his Harley. Obsessed by space Eddie lost a third of his mass so he could take a glider flight. […]

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NASA Pai Ban

June 28, 2012 – 8:37 pm

President Eisenhower created NASA in 1958 with the help of Nazi scientist Werner Braun. The Free World had to be defended by Free Space. Missiles, rockets, satellites shuttles soared into orbit with the aim of exploring the heavens. Sadly funds to NASA have been cut dramatically in the 21st Century, as the GOP and America […]

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