March 16, 2016

Astronauts Rise to Meet the Gemini 8 Challenge

While Gemini 8 wasn't the mission that coined the phrase, "Houston, we have a problem" (that would be Apollo 13) it was the first emergency in space. Gemini 8 actually marked two firsts in human spaceflight?the first time one spacecraft docked to another, and the first time astronauts were forced to make an emergency landing from orbit. What

Nov. 19, 2015

Does the Star Spangled Banner Still Wave on the Moon?

For this month's celebration of Flag Friday, what makes this particular flag stand out is not how old it is, but its location. Because a long time ago, in a dimension beyond earth-bound man, a flag waves boldly where only one other has gone before it - the moon.For most of you reading this blog, few may remember 46 years ago on Nov. 14, 1969, when