by Emily Carney | Apr 28, 2019 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Fiction, This Space Available
Sometimes, young adult novels from the past define the desired values and “pulse” of an entire era. One book series, very aggressively marketed to teenage boys in the early 1960s, is the “Mike Mars” series written by science fiction author Donald A. Wollheim, and...
by Emily Carney | Apr 16, 2019 | Space Shuttle, This Space Available
“I always used to dream of the past But like they say yesterday never comes Sometimes there’s a song in my brain And I feel that my heart knows the refrain I guess it’s just the music that brings on nostalgia for an age yet to come” -Buzzcocks, “Nostalgia”...
by Emily Carney | Mar 16, 2019 | Apollo, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
The last six months have brought us two major movies about Apollo 11, and some of its figures: First Man (released October 2018), and Apollo 11 (currently playing in theaters). While this 50th anniversary year will bring many related films, documentaries, and books to...
by Emily Carney | Mar 9, 2019 | Movies and Videos, Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
The documentary Searching For Skylab, released on Vimeo on March 5th, is a treasure trove of as-yet-unseen archival footage of the much-underrated early 1970s U.S. space station, inter-cut with commentary from its astronauts, workers, major players, and experts....
by Emily Carney | Mar 3, 2019 | Apollo, Movies and Videos, This Space Available
What ever happened to those faces in the old photographs I mean, the little boys… Boys?…Hell they were men Who stood knee deep in the Johnstown mud In the time of that terrible flood And they listened to the water, that awful noise And then they put away the dreams...
