Space Shuttle

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From Dec. 5, 1973: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, Skylab 4 science pilot, stands at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) console in the Multiple Docking Adapter

Captain America chillin’ out in his home away from home. Photo from Project Apollo’s Archive on Flickr (Apollo 17 Magazine 160/YY; 35mm Color, onboard; NASA

“Listen, I know it’s extremely difficult to fly with someone this handsome. Sorry, Owen and Al.” NASA photo, dated Jan. 19, 1972: “Prime crew members

From NASA, March 1981 photo: “The space shuttle orbiter Columbia is showered with lights in this nocturnal scene at Launch Pad 39A, as preparations are

Into The Black is scheduled to be released on April 19, 2016, shortly after the 35th anniversary of STS-1. Image Credit: Amazon.com It’s late 2015,

Plaque at LC-34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Sunday, January 27, 2013. Photo by me.  On Sunday, January 27, I was honored to have

The original Disembodied Dave Scott Head as seen on TV, flanked by a nonplussed John Young and Charlie Duke, April 1972. Photo by Retro Space

When smoke gets in your eyes: 1965 Life magazine photo.  In September, John Young’s autobiography Forever Young, edited by Neil Armstrong’s biographer James Hansen, was

This video is no longer available.   Crip’s all business, while John is a clown. STS-1 25th anniversary talk, 2006.  If you ever had doubts

July 8, 2011.  It has been six months since the launch of STS-135. I was there. One of my good friends, Will, and I showed

If John Young says it’s dangerous, it officially is. NASA photo.  Some background on this post: in the space shuttle days, one of the four

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