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  • Many Firsts with Anousheh Ansari's Flight

    Congratulations to Anousheh Ansari (photo credit: AnoushehAnsari.com) for her successful flight into orbit early this morning! While many within NASA have met the Soyuz space tourist flights with some reluctance, there …

  • Visions Old and New

    While NASA may have forgotten what they did with the original Apollo tapes, they apparently have come up with a new name and logo for the Crew Exploration Vehicle and moon landing program, collectSPACE reports. The tria…

  • Fun with Sprites

    OK, this time I've added a title, something fairly new to Xanga. Titles will be needed anyway once the more full-featured version of AeroGo is up and running, since WordPress makes permalinks based on them. This time I…

  • Twenty Years After Challenger

    Twenty years ago, I walked into Austin Aero with Cam, my CFII. A crisp but beautiful and sunny morning, as it was in Florida, I had been practicing under the hood (a big visor used to simulate instrument flight). I was…

  • Brazil's Cosmonaut Deal Shows Space Isn't Even on U.S. Political Radar

    I was delighted to read that Brazil will soon be sending its first traveler into space. Brazil has had an active space program for decades, though they suffered a serious setback from a launch pad explosion a few years …

  • A couple of weeks ago, I saw a 60 Minutes ad announcing an interview with Neil Armstrong. It was a pleasant surprise, and I wondered what prompted his agreeing to it. After all, Oprah was on Letterman just the other ni…

  • New Scientist is reporting interesting research by former astronaut Millie Hughes-Fulford that appears to pinpoint how weightlessness impairs the immune system. Her team at UC San Francisco has identified a "specific si…

  • Congratulations to the Chinese for launching their second manned space mission today, Shenzhou 6. It is a significant accomplishment. There is a helpful and fairly detailed history of Chinese manned spaceflight, writte…

  • I didn't have much time to write Friday because of the hurricane; fortunately we were fine, as the storm veered farther east. Besides Magnificent Desolation I wanted to mention a couple of other 3-D Imax space films I …

  • I am happy to report that my nearly 5-year old can now write the name of our renowned space traveler pictured at left. Yes, he is no other than H - A - M. The wonder of phonics! I bet with a little practice, you can d…

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