Space Can Be Overwhelming At Times – A Major Update
I wouldn’t normally ask, but I’d really hope everyone hitting this page does take some time to read this, to see what being a blogger can be like when things go bad. October has been an incredible...
View ArticleGetting Back Into The Swing Of Things, And Space Articles Going Forward
Dang, it’s been a week since the last major post here. All I’ve done since then are a few update posts which really haven’t been all that necessary. Right, I guess it’s time to get back to normal...
View ArticleThe Electron Rocket Makes Its First Commercial Flight – “It’s Business Time”
Rocket Labs “Electron” made its second successful and first commercial flight on November 11th, 2018, successfully carrying a compliment of small cubesats into orbit. Let’s go over this one more time –...
View ArticleWhat Happened To All The Space Content?
Anyone who has followed this site over the past few years will notice a few constants about what I write about – technology, gaming, social commentary, and space and rocketry. Given the depth of the...
View ArticleMy Battery Is Low And It’s Getting Dark – #ThankYouOppy
Yesterday was a somewhat emotional day for those who follow current events in space exploration as NASA finally called an end of mission to the Opportunity rover on Mars. This little machine had been...
View ArticleThe Real Reason I Don’t Really Write About Space Anymore
I had a long post planned here, but didn’t feel it was quite right, so I’ll try to keep this as short as possible. No, I won’t have the usual in depth explanations of what I mean here – I’ve done...
View ArticleAbout That Amazing Photo Of A Black Hole
As I’m sure most everyone has seen, a few days ago on April 10th the first photo ever of a Black Hole was released. An object that in effect should be impossible to visualize was captured, thanks to a...
View ArticleHappy 4th Of July 2019! (With More Bonus Rocket Launches!)
It’s the 4th of July and, in what’s becoming a tradition here, instead of typical fireworks I like to celebrate online with something with a little more power behind it – rockets. Old launches, more...
View Article40 Years Ago: The End Of Skylab
Been a while since I wrote about a space related topic, hasn’t it? Well, I couldn’t let today go by at all without at least covering the sad end of one of my favorite parts of space history – Skylab....
View Article50 Years Ago: The Launch Of Apollo 11
Today is the day. July 16th, 2019 marks 50 years to the day since the launch of Apollo 11 and humanities first landing on the Moon — an event which, to me, is the single greatest accomplishment in...
View ArticleToday Is The Day – The 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
This is it. Today is July 20th, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. To say that I’m excited would be an understatement — it’s just something different to think it’s been 50...
View ArticleThe Eagle Has Landed
I just completed watching the Apollo 11 landing in real time, and all I can say, in short form, was it was an incredible experience. I’ve watched the footage before — recall a few years ago I shared...
View ArticleThat’s One Small Step For [A] Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind
Six and a half hours after landing on the Lunar surface on July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to step onto another celestial body. A goal set by President Kennedy...
View ArticleReflections On Apollo 11
The evening of July 20th was spent with me watching the entirety of the Apollo 11 moonwalk as it had happened 50 years ago on that same date. I knew the whole event was only about 2 hours long but,...
View ArticleThe “Final” Space Article (For Now, Anyway…)
It’s been a few days since my last post here, and even with that the last few posts were all Apollo 11 related. The 50th anniversary was quite an event to be a part of, even passively as I was. More so...
View ArticleThe Return Of The Only Articles I’ve Ever Deleted From This Site
The title isn’t entirely true – there are a few very unimportant entries which had been deleted a while back which are lost. They had no value anyway, unlike the entries I restored this evening. If you...
View ArticleThe Greatest Test Flight – STS-1
Today marked the 40th anniversary of the launch of Columbia on the first mission of the Space Shuttle Program, STS-1. It’s a little hard for me to think that it was that along ago, or that the program...
View ArticleOh Wait, I Forgot The Obligatory Rockets!
What is a 4th of July on Xadara without some good old American rocketry? A boring one, that’s what. Today I think I’ll share a video I may have shared before, but if I have oh well – I’m sharing it...
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