Whilst reading a bit from ``Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience,'' by James E Tomayko, I came across the mtion that the Gemini Digital Computer was...

I think everyone who's read a Space Race history that gives Gemini more than two paragraphs knows that Gemini 7 brought a copy of Mark Twain's _Roughing It_...

A little moment I ran across in the NASA SP-4202 _Vanguard: A History_ that I don't think I've seen mentioned befo This phase of the countdown moved to...

A friend passed this lovely montage on to me ... http://www.wakachan.org/yuu/src/1238112931064.jpg Just *look* at all the details provided there for model...

The usua gang's at it again ... http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nasa_embarks_on_epic_delay NASA Embarks On Epic Delay APRIL 17, 2009 | ISSUE...

For the rest of us, though, there's the 30 June _Grin And Bear It_ to consider:...

Turner Classic Movies (United States feed) is running a day's worth of Moon-connected programming for the 20th of July. There's almost certainly something...

In the midst of a discussion over on rec.arts.sf.written I ran across a point about Skylab that I hadn't noticed before. Following the end of the third and...

Walter Bushell writes: In article , wrote: It looks like it in face of the...

... or at least planned ones, from the clip-art comic The New Adventures Of Queen Victoria:...

The _Mythbusters_ episode in which they examine the claims that the Apollo moon missions were faked is scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel tonight, at...

A while back I got to wondering about the often-repeated trivia that the shuttle Enterprise, OV-101, would have been named Constitution had the Star Trek fans...

I'm late posting this, but if you read this before about 10 am Eastern Time the Peanuts This Day In History page from Japan features the start of Snoopy's...

Assignment: Earth was this weekend's _Star Trek_ Remastered New Special Effects edition, and while there was apparently too much stock footage of the Apollo...

I've been watching 'Failure Is Not An Option', about Mission Control, on the History International channel. Among the stock footage used, particularly for...

Somehow this sort of thing seems like it should come with the risk of being made a moral lesson in an Oompa-Loompa...

I haven't seen it mentioned but I have trouble believing that it wasn't noticed: one of the paylods lost in the Falcon 1 failure was a Celestis satellite...

A friend pointed out to me a rather neat little site with pictures of television coverage from several Gemini and Apollo missions:...

So, is this a more or a less ignorable animal astronaut movie than _Space Chimps_, or would determining such a thing require anybody to actually see either? ...

Today's _WuMo_ comic strip has a woodpecker at work on a rocket: http://www.gocomics.com/wumo/2013/12/28 I have a vague nagging memory of something...