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When the March 2026 Equinox edition of The Planetary Report (Vol. 46, No. 01) landed in my mail box, the cover image of Comet 67P/Churyumov – Gerasimenko didn’t give a hint as to the major announcement that was waiting on page 4. The image was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in […]
First the disclaimer: my wife and I are not mountain climbers but we have hiked up many slopes near our home turf in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Even though they are called ‘mountains’ (ie: The Porcupine Mountains, The Huron Mountains), they are mere foothills when compared to the mountain ranges found in the western states. […]
When Canadian actor James Doohan auditioned for the original Star Trek TV series, he was already a gifted mimic when it came to accents. He tried several different ones during his Star Trek audition. The show runners liked the Scotch accent he used the best. Doohan recalled in a 1991 interview that when he was […]
Flo & Eddie are actually four different people who co-existed in two different bands. There is an entire tail twisting story behind the name so I am going to do my best to unravel it for you. Two of the people known as Flo & Eddie are actually Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan from […]
When I saw the posting from the Calumet area on Friday, March 13, 2026, it reminded me that we were, indeed, having an old fashioned winter. The sign being held by a man next to a very large snowbank noted the Keweenaw Peninsula had been averaging 7.2 inches of snow per day. As of that […]
Growing up, one of my favorite sayings we applied to solving complex problems was, “Keep It Simple, Stupid.” In the best NASA tradition, we trimmed it down to the acronym, ‘KISS’. During the period where some people strived to be more politically correct, someone came up with the idea that it should be shortened […]
I am guessing you will have to talk to Mother Nature. With our single bay temporary tower, we ran into icing problems with the recent warm, rainy weather – you know, just before we got another blizzard. We were online only March 11 & 12, then we had two snow days and were not on […]
S4SD NEWSBREAK – for the 11th consecutive year, WOAS-FM 91.5 has applied for and been awarded a $1000 grant to conduct a local safe driving program. This Public Service Project involves the students who staff the station during the day shift – through a combination of art work contests and the distribution of program wristbands […]
One of the boldest decisions made in the Apollo Moon landing program was the decision to send the Apollo 8 spacecraft to the Moon in December of 1968. Apollo 8 was originally supposed to be a shakedown flight of the integrated Command Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM, later shortened to […]
The Turtles almost didn’t happen. Call it fate or kismet or whatever, but one of the top selling bands of the late 1960s were DOA and then they weren’t (more on this in a bit). When vocalist Mark Voman passed away in September of 2025, it prompted me to find a copy of his […]