We Will Miss You When You’re Gone

We interrupt this regularly scheduled “Weightlessness and Physiological Effects on Astronauts” blog post to touch on the events of today…. Tonight is Yuri’s Night.  Fifty years ago today, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, marking the dawn of a new era in which mankind would have the ability to exist in a…

8.7 Million Pounds of Thrust…Meet the Saturn V

Meet the Saturn V rocket: the largest, most powerful rocket ever launched.  This is the three stage, 363 foot tall beast that carried 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon.  With President Kennedy’s challenge in 1961 to land a man on the moon by the end  of the decade, it was necessary to build a rocket…

Hero

Have you ever been asked, “If you could meet one person who has lived during the last 100 years, who would it be?”  Who’s your person, the one you admire more than any other?  Many incredible people have passed through our earth during the last century:  Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Disney, Winston…