Last night I watched the new TV movie Moonshot, the latest small-screen dramatization of the historic flight of Apollo 11. I have to say, I liked it. I was...
Great to have that wav file of the klaxon. Now here's a question I've been meaning to ask for ages. I've been using the following picture as the group home...
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind!" Who else is going to be taping the original CBS broadcast when it airs tonight on the History...
It was forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on the greatest adventure in human...
For those of you who do not yet know, NASA now wants to de-orbit the International Space Station in 2016. Personally I think that's absolutely ridiculous, and...
Some years ago I became rather irrationally obsessive about the possibility of nuclear war. I had my fallout room picked out, my alternate bathroom, my canned...
Does this sound more and more like "someone" we know? http://www.technewsworld.com/edpick/66912.html?wlc=1245072364 IBM Supercomputer to Match Critical...
The other day I was in a used bookstore and stumbled across a hardcover first edition of 2010. Even though it was pricey for a used book -- $10 -- I bought...
Just to let the group know that this coming Sunday at 7:30 pm, the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood will be showing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If...
Inherit the Stars by James Patrick Hogan is one of the most fascinating science fiction novels I've read in a very, very long time. Hogan deliberately set out...
From Chapter 7: Special Flight: "Near the horizon, a gleaming silver tower bathed in floodlights, stood the last of the Saturn V's, for almost twenty years a...
I watched the shuttle launch last night. I'm just outside Jacksonville, about 120 miles north of KSC. It was a wonderfully clear evening. I spotted it about...
I was comparing my models of the Orion III spaceplane and the Space Shuttle. It's a fascinating comparison, since the two designs are so similar. But there...
HAL 9000 became operational "today" on January 12 in Urbana, Illinois. [Ohh, for all "his" flaws, that it was somewhere even artificially intelligently close...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stanley-Kubrick/9497602450 Mark McKennon The Location Station Brooklyn NY 11215 718.768.5539 (ph/f) / 917.744.8730 (c) ...
Barack Obama is considering a member of his transition team, Lori Garver, to take the position of NASA administrator. Many engineers and scientists, as well...
In the first chapter of 2010, Dr. Floyd says, "I've heard Carl give that old SETI speech so many times I could recite it myself." (How could Arthur have known...
I watched 2001 yesterday - a less and less frequent occurrence the busier a person I become - and had a great time. I always come away with different ...
Forget the beginning and the middle of the day, I'm just going to cut straight to the end when I was in an Irish pub downtown at around 9pm last night, waiting...
Hi all, No activity here for a while, so thought I'd throw my two cents into the ring. I just finished adding several pages to my web site specifically ...
...a bit late for those who didn't know about it, live near L.A. and would have been interested, but still kind of heartening... ZENtertainmentnetwork.com The...
The State Board of Education is tightening up its math standards for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Some standards include mastering addition...
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