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Category Archives: Space History
The High Frontier
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).
SN9
Bob Zimmerman has a post up about today’s planned flight.
If it happens, it will have happened on the 35th anniversary of the loss of Challenger, and on my birthday.
[Update a few minutes later]
Looks like winds are too high, so they’ll miss the anniversary.
[Afternoon update]
Well, it looks like they are going to try today. They’re loading propellant, but there seems to be an FAA issue.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Well, here‘s what we know so far.
A New Space History Book
…from Lori Garver (for whom it is first hand) and Michael Sheetz. Here‘s a sample chapter.
Glenn Reynold’s New Space Book
Laura Montgomery reviews it. He gave me a draft when he was writing it, on which I provided some comments.
New Apollo Footage
OK, not new footage, but a new version of it, enhanced by AI.
BTW, I’ll be on The Space Show at 1900 PDT tonight, to talk about the 51st anniversary of Apollo 11, and Evoloterra.
Apollo 13, And Commercial Crew
I did a Twitter thread.
Apollo 13 And The Coronavirus
Marina Koren watched the movie (she was probably a little kid in Russia when it first came out) for the first time.
I keep hearing the phrase “the new normal.” I think I’ll write about why we haven’t had a normal for a couple centuries. With technological change, we’ve always had societal change.
Apollo 13
Hard to believe it’s the half-century anniversary.
Buzz
He knows something about quarantine, and he’s protecting himself.
[Update a few minutes later]
This is good news for Buzz (and me) if he’s otherwise healthy: 99% of the deaths in Italy were people who had other illnesses.