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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, […]