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Over the decades it has existed, January has been a hard month for NASA (followed closely by February). Sadly, the loss of the Apollo 1 crew during a training session on January 27, 1967 marked the first mission related fatalities for the United States manned space program. The Apollo 1 accident took place during what […]
I have an admission to make: I have always been and continue to be addicted to reading newspapers. It began innocently enough when I would grab the Marquette Mining Journal that the paperboy would put behind our screen door each day. The first and only order of business when this started was to flip to […]
The following artist’s names conjure up an instant mental image: Cher, Elvis, Prince, Madonna, Rihanna, Shakira, Adele, Beyonce, Bono, Sting, Eminem, Sade, Kesha, Flea, and Slash (to name a few more modern examples). Do you remember the black leather clad Elvis or the spangly jumpsuited Elvis? Do you see Cher standing next to Sonny Bono […]
In each issue of a quarterly publication called The Planetary Report, the Planetary Society includes a trivia question. Some are more challenging than others and everybody that emails in the correct answer has their name tossed into a random drawing for a free tee shirt. Having sent in my entry religiously over the years, […]
If you are wondering about my numbering system for the band Guns N’ Roses, let me count them off. Version 1.0, the original line up that found fame with their debut album, included Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagen, Izzy Stradlin, and Steven Adler on vocals, guitar, bass, second guitar and drums, respectively. They came […]
It has been a few months since we last updated you on our quest for a new tower for WOAS-FM 91.5. Let us just say Mark and Matt from Range Communications are on the job, but they are also wrapping up their own projects as the winter weather sets in. As long as we […]
Let me be the first to admit that the above title isn’t exactly something designed to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling. It is a commonly held belief that the end of the dinosaur’s rule was the only time the Earth has undergone a mass sterilization of living things. The added ‘(s)’ is […]
If the above title supplies you with another earworm, it was a purely intentional act on my part. When my old NASA Traveling Roadshow presenter (Ralph Winrich by name) sent me a recent link about the new and improved topographic maps available (more on them in a bit), my mind went right to the […]
A few weeks ago, Neil Rumney of Rhinelander, Wisconsin sent an email to the Ontonagon Area Schools asking if the email address he had found for me (Ken Raisanen) was still active. Soon after I replied to this message, a second email arrived from his daughter Hannah, a forestry student at UW-Stevens Point. The photo […]
I am no world traveler, but ever since I graduated from high school, I have managed to visit both coasts of our fair country and a handful of places in between. My first trip by air was a modest one. My brother Ron had just finished his first year of teaching in downstate Chesaning […]