Category Archives: Space

History Is Now

The Sum Total of Human Experience For 2000 Years A little while ago the Economist put up this chart in their Daily Chart section. I’ve been meaning to blog it but life has a way of getting in the way … Continue reading

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Movie Doubles – ‘Moon’ & ‘The Red Baron’

O The Humanity! This one is an odd movie double because they really are movies I watched back to back, with nothing but their price tags to help me make that decision to pick them up on DVD and stick … Continue reading

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Mars Direct Is Back

Spacefreak Moment For Mr. Obama Back in the day when this blog’s predecessor was the ‘Spacefreaks Weblog‘, and shared writers – yes it wasn’t just me writing stuff – the big topic in 2004 was whether the space program should … Continue reading

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40th Anniversary Of Lunar Landing

Distant Moon When I was first starting up with this blogging thing, I started off talking about NASA in the wake of the Columbia shuttle disaster. You can go look it up. Partly because back then, it seemed NASA had … Continue reading

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Voyage Of The Doomed

NASA Releases Details On Deaths Of Columbia Crew In a newly released research from NASA, it is revealed the astronauts had no chance of surviving the critical mishap that befell Columbia. The last seconds of the astronauts aboard the doomed … Continue reading

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Space, The Final Frontier

Up In A Space Elevator Back in the days when I first started blogging, one of the main interest areas for me was space exploration that actually had a commercial basis. This led to extensive blogging about the Space-X prize … Continue reading

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