Ten years ago today -- September 8, 2000 -- the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a mission to prepare the International Space Station to receive its first crew. (STS-106 launch. NASA image.) STS-106 carried astronauts Terrence W. Wilcutt, Scott D. Altman, Daniel C. Burbank, Edward T. Lu, and Richard A. Mastracchio, along with ...
Fifteen years ago today -- September 7, 1995 -- the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-69. (Close-up of STS-69 launch. NASA image.) STS-69's crew -- David M. Walker, Kenneth D. Cockrell, James S. Voss, James H. Newman, and Michael L. Gernhardt -- deployed and retrieved two satellites, the first time that happened on ...
I set a modest goal for Dragon*Con this year: to buy and have signed two specific books. I achieved that goal yesterday, so the rest of the con will entail working at Jim Minz's behest at the Baen road show, attending whatever-the-heck-I-want, and making some progress on the short story I'm writing. The books I came in pursuit of were:Shades of Milk and Honey, the first novel by Mary Robinette Kowal, one of my writing friends from the Codex writers group who also happens to be ...
Driving through the Triad on the way to Dragon*Con yesterday, right around Thomasville, I noticed a blue Dodge pickup truck with a very interesting political message on the tailgate. Neatly spelled out in precise white letters was the simple message: SOMEONE ELSE FOR PRESIDENT -- which sums up why I started the Anti-Campaign. I have no way of contacting the gentleman in the truck; he pulled off I-85S at exit 106 (Finch Farm Road). If anyone ...
Twenty-five years ago today -- August 27, 1985 -- astronauts Joe H. Engle, Richard O. Covey, James D. Van Hoften, William F. Fisher and John M. Lounge lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. (Unidentified STS-51I astronaut in the Shuttle Discovery's open cargo bay. NASA image.) Mission STS-51I lasted a week, during which the crew deployed three ...
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