by Nigel Blackwell | Space
I believe it was Arthur C Clarke who first used the phrase “something wonderful is going to happen.” Well, it was either him or someone else. Anyway, something wonderful IS going to happen. Now, before you rush off to find that lottery ticket from last...
by Nigel Blackwell | Space
I wrote this back in April. With the passing of a man who was both wildly famous and a model of the men they called “the right stuff,” it seems appropriate to remember some of the many things that propelled him to that one small step. In my last post about...
by Nigel Blackwell | Space
Unless you’ve been living on a different planet this past week, you must have heard about NASA’s latest Mars rover, Curiosity. Of course, if you were living on the red planet you might have been running away from the monster from the sky, as shown in theses two photos...
by Nigel Blackwell | Space
A week ago I mentioned the SpaceX Falcon9 launch and resupply of the ISS. The capsule carried 1000lbs of food, water, and supplies. Vital stuff if you’re going to spend months in a tin can with no chance of phoning for pizza. One other portion of the payload...
by Nigel Blackwell | Space
You probably heard the news this weekend about the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket liftoff. It was the third mission testing Elon Musk’s investment in space technology. After running a series of tests on the Dragon capsule it was maneuvered to within 30ft of...
by Nigel Blackwell | Space
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard piloted Freedom 7 into space, but not before he famously urged the ground crew “Why don’t you fellows solve your little problems and light this candle.” But who did light that candle? At the time Kurt Debus refused to...