I did a Twitter thread.
Category Archives: Space History
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.
Al Worden
A Purpose-Driven Space Program
Bob Zubrin’s take on the stagnation in NASA human spaceflight.
As I’ve often said, if we don’t know why we’re doing something, it’s not possible to come up with a sensible way to do it.
Seventeen Years
Ian Kluft remembers seeing Columbia breaking up, from California.
[Sunday-morning update]
Here are my thoughts from that day. If you click on “Next Post” you’ll read a lot more from the hours and days that came after.
My IAC Paper
So, I just found out that I have until January 31st to submit it for the IISL (International Institute of Space Law) Proceedings. There is apparently a word limit of 5000 words. I just checked, and it’s exactly 4997…
Must be living right.
Leonov
A giant of human spaceflight history has left us. Bob Zimmerman remembers him.
So does Gwynne Shotwell.
[Sunday-morning update]
More thoughts from Bob Zubrin.
Oops
Wayne Hale remembers a flawed safety design from the early Shuttle days.