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Fifty Years Ago…

July 20, 2019 TS Hottle

We need to go back.

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Posted in: History, Science Filed under: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Moon landing, Neil Armstrong

49 Years Ago Today

July 20, 2018 TS Hottle

We are long overdue for a return trip. Boeing, I’m looking at you. At this rate, Elon Musk or Jeff…

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Posted in: History, Science Filed under: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Moon landing, Neil Armstrong

Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins

May 17, 2018 TS Hottle

Tom Wolfe talked about how the Mercury astronauts had “that righteous stuff.” The swagger of Al Shepherd, Deke Slayton, and…

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Posted in: Books, History, Science Filed under: Apollo, Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Carrying the Fire, Charles Lindbergh, Gemini, lunar landing, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong

Wheels Stop by Rick Houston

April 12, 2018 TS Hottle

Most books about NASA focus on the trailblazing programs like Mercury and Apollo. They talk about the moonwalkers and the…

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Posted in: Books, History, Science Filed under: Rick Houston, space shuttle, Wheels Stop

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

March 29, 2018 TS Hottle

They’re all gone now, the Mercury 7. John Glenn died in late 2016, and knowledge of the first rides taken…

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Posted in: Books, History, Science Filed under: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Gordo Cooper, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Mercury, Scott Carpenter, space program, The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, Wally Schirra

Amortality

March 13, 2018 TS Hottle

It’s a common theme in science fiction, particularly in Altered Carbon and Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. Humans find a way to stop…

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Posted in: Science, Science Fiction Filed under: amortality, immorality, longevity

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

March 7, 2018 TS Hottle

The Apollo program captured the world’s imagination. And it seemed to all that a golden age of human exploration had…

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Posted in: Books, History, Science Filed under: A Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin, Apollo

Endurance: A Year in Space by Scott Kelly

February 8, 2018 TS Hottle

When veteran astronaut Scott Kelly was selected for NASA’s first year-long mission in orbit, he opted to read the book Endurance:…

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Posted in: Books, History, Science Filed under: Endurance: A Year in Space, ISS, NASA, Scott Kelly, Soyuz, space travel

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

January 25, 2018 TS Hottle

In Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari recounts the history of Earth’s most dominant species. History began, he asserted, with the cognitive…

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Posted in: Books, History, Science Filed under: Futurism, Homo Deus, humans, Yuval Noah Harari

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