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Redirect: “The Impact of Sally Ride’s Contributions in Space and Education”
On Friday, May 17, 2013, we held at the National Air and Space Museum here in Washington, D.C., a wonderful program on Sally Ride and her place in the history of spaceflight and science, technology, e… more →
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Redirect: "The Impact of Sally Ride's Contributions in Space and Education"
wrote 1 day ago: On Friday, May 17, 2013, we held at the National Air and Space Museum here in Washington, D.C., a wo … more →
Interpreting the Decision to Build the Space Shuttle
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Wernher von Braun once supposedly told his colleagues: “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paper … more →
Reflections on the Loss of STS-107: Ten Years Ago (Redirect)
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wrote 3 months ago: I posted on the National Air and Space Museum website this morning a reflection of the tenth anniver … more →
Remembering the Challenger Seven: 27 Years On
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wrote 3 months ago: The Challenger crew during the walk-out to the van taking them to Challenger at Launch Complex 39. S … more →
Evening Event: "Caution and Boldness: Balancing Risk in Spaceflight" on February 1, 2013
wrote 3 months ago: The Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, is holding a … more →
What is the Space Shuttle's Place in Modern American History?
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wrote 4 months ago: Two Space Shuttles on the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center in 2008. It began with the desire to e … more →
A Chronology of Space Anniversaries for 2013
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wrote 4 months ago: “Earthrise,” one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken in Decemb … more →
Smithsonian Channel Award-Winning Documentary on the Space Shuttle
wrote 5 months ago: I am happy to note that the Smithsonian Channel will air its award-winning documentary, “Spac … more →
New Study Available: "Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography Part 2, 1992–2011"
wrote 5 months ago: Twenty years ago I compiled with Aaron Gillette an annotated bibliography of the Space Shuttle progr … more →
NASA’s Space Shuttle and the Department of Defense
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wrote 6 months ago: The launch of the Space Shuttle “Columbia” on April 12, 1981. During the 1970s, the Spac … more →
Announcing a New Book: "Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space"
wrote 7 months ago: Dennis R. Jenkins and I have just published a new book, Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Spac … more →
Is there an Intrinsic Superiority of Reusable Space Launch Vehicles over Those That are Expendable?
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wrote 7 months ago: Artists concept of the X-30 reusable aerospace plane flying through Earth’s atmosphere on its … more →
The Declining Significance of the Frontier in Space History?
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wrote 9 months ago: American Progress or Manifest Destiny, 1872, by John Gast It began to be perceptible in the late 196 … more →
Envisioning Limits: Outer Space and the End of Utopia
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wrote 1 year ago: I am attending the conference, “Envisioning Limits: Outer Space and the End of Utopia,” … more →
Join Me and Many Others for the 50th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
wrote 1 year ago: For anyone who might be in the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday and Thursday, March 28 and 29, 20 … more →
International Prestige and Soft Power in the History of Spaceflight
wrote 1 year ago: Almost from the beginning of thought about the potential of flight in space, theorists believed that … more →
Join Us for the 3rd Space Policy and History Forum, Crystal City, Virginia, March 12, 2012
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wrote 1 year ago: For those in the Washington, D.C., area on Monday March 12, please consider attending the 3rd Space … more →
Space and Beyond in 2011: An Extraordinary Year in Review
wrote 1 year ago: Space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) as it launche … more →
Is Landing as Risky as Launch for Human Spacecraft?
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wrote 1 year ago: The recent anniversaries of the tragic Apollo 1 (January 27, 1967), Challenger (January 28, 1986, an … more →
