Category Archives: Space

Duct tape. Is there nothing it can’t do?

I had heard rumors that duct tape had been used years ago on a delta rocket to patch a small hole someone had knocked into its side. And it worked.  “There, I fixed it” has photos demonstrating that duct tape … Continue reading

Humor, Space

40 Years Ago Today

Space

On This Date…

On this date in 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned alive in Rome for heresy.  His crime:  he believed numerous other worlds harbour extraterrestrial life.  He was also a proponent of heliocentrism (the sun and not the earth is the center … Continue reading

Science, Social, Religion, Space

Fifty Years Later

From Have Spacesuite, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1958 Of the boys in our school half admitted that they wanted to space, half pretended not to care, knowing how feeble the chances were–plus a handful of creeps who wouldn’t … Continue reading

Space

More Space Camp Photos

I uploaded all of my Space Camp pictures to a Picasa album:  http://picasaweb.google.com/hofer.frank/20080831Space_camp I basically just uploaded all of them – the museum, fuzzy pictures of the moon rock, the Apollo 16 capsule from all angles, everything.  I did no … Continue reading

Space, Travel