Category space

Intrepid and Resilient

Click here to see my posting about Apollo 11 on the FLY! website

Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins & Kranz) – Tough and Competent

From FLY-theBook.com Apollo 11 50 years ago today, as Apollo 11 completed its Trans Lunar Injection burn to accelerate and position into a Free Return Trajectory on the way to the moon, it’s worth remembering how long and fragile the early chain of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo operations were and how, if the culture […]

In Honour of SpaceX and Elon Musk

I don’t have sufficient words to describe the respect I feel for an individual and the 5000+ workers in the SpaceX (16 year old private) company who are disrupting the established space industry. Never has high tech been so emotional.     Tears filled my eyes when I watched two of the three boosters return and […]