June 11, 2013

Losing the race?

The news of today’s launch of a Chinese rocket propelling three astronauts into orbit took many Americans by surprise. And it’s not just this mission; the […]
May 6, 2013

The Second Man on the Moon…

This week, the second man to set foot on the moon will be a keynote speaker at a conference designed to exchange ideas about a much […]
April 14, 2013

Seen a rocket lately?

Those who live in the vicinity of Florida’s eastern coast still have a fairly routine ability to watch rockets launch despite the conclusion of the space […]
March 25, 2013

It’s more fun to compute…

In the late 1980s, I nearly moved to Florida to work for Lockheed Space Operations as a computer programmer working on Space Shuttle systems at Kennedy […]