World History
Icarus Rising... A Memorial to the Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Today is the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster which set back the American space program.
The blogged site of the day is a memorial site interpretating the Challenger disaster in terms of the Greek myth of Icarus.
Q from Star Tek: The Next Generation (yes, fiction) noted about space exploration, "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
This may sound harsh but it is probably true. Disasters such as the Challenger explosion are horrid but they will happen again if we are serious about leaving Earth and exploring the Universe. Are we afraid? Can death stop us from taking our rightful place amongst the stars?
The future will determine this. How far can we advance the exploration of space in our lifetimes?
- Apollo 40th Anniversary
NASA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Program with an Apollo 40th Anniversary site. It allows online visitors to relive each mission with video, photos, and a unique animated comic. It also has information about Moon Trees and NASA's...
- Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?
I am: E.E. "Doc" SmithThe inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later. Which science fiction writer are you?Hat tip to Grant Jones. Thanks....
- Why The Soviets Never Beat The U.s. To The Moon
Why the Soviets Never Beat the U.S. to the Moon - A Soviet space expert discusses how recently declassified material confirms his painstaking discoveries over decades about why the Soviet Union was unable to win the space race. From the site: Russia today...
- Beyond The Atmosphere: Early Years Of Space Science
Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science - A book-length history of the period between Sputnik I and the creation of NASA, by the NASA History Office. From the site: The rocket apparently made its debut on the pages of history as a fire...
- Cloud Storage
So I have every single course and its contents and all my personal items in Google Docs and was only using 45% of my free space. Now (as of a few hours ago) I am using Google Drive and have an additional 5 gigabytes (with more coming soon) so I...
World History
Icarus Rising... A Memorial to the Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger
Icarus Rising... A Memorial to the Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Today is the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster which set back the American space program.
The blogged site of the day is a memorial site interpretating the Challenger disaster in terms of the Greek myth of Icarus.
Q from Star Tek: The Next Generation (yes, fiction) noted about space exploration, "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
This may sound harsh but it is probably true. Disasters such as the Challenger explosion are horrid but they will happen again if we are serious about leaving Earth and exploring the Universe. Are we afraid? Can death stop us from taking our rightful place amongst the stars?
The future will determine this. How far can we advance the exploration of space in our lifetimes?
- Apollo 40th Anniversary
NASA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Program with an Apollo 40th Anniversary site. It allows online visitors to relive each mission with video, photos, and a unique animated comic. It also has information about Moon Trees and NASA's...
- Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?
I am: E.E. "Doc" SmithThe inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later. Which science fiction writer are you?Hat tip to Grant Jones. Thanks....
- Why The Soviets Never Beat The U.s. To The Moon
Why the Soviets Never Beat the U.S. to the Moon - A Soviet space expert discusses how recently declassified material confirms his painstaking discoveries over decades about why the Soviet Union was unable to win the space race. From the site: Russia today...
- Beyond The Atmosphere: Early Years Of Space Science
Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science - A book-length history of the period between Sputnik I and the creation of NASA, by the NASA History Office. From the site: The rocket apparently made its debut on the pages of history as a fire...
- Cloud Storage
So I have every single course and its contents and all my personal items in Google Docs and was only using 45% of my free space. Now (as of a few hours ago) I am using Google Drive and have an additional 5 gigabytes (with more coming soon) so I...