Laura Montgomery reviews it. He gave me a draft when he was writing it, on which I provided some comments.
Category Archives: Space History
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.
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.