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In Part 1, we used Robert Kurson’s book ROCKET MEN (Random House 2018) as a reference to examine how NASA stepped away from their normally cautious process of training crews for space missions over an 18 month period. The idea was to keep ahead of the Russians in the Space Race when intelligence reports […]
“Are you out of your mind?” he yelled into the phone. “You’re putting the agency and the whole program at risk!” The ‘he’ above would be NASA Administrator James E. Webb. On the receiving end of his tirade were his deputy at NASA, Thomas Paine, and the director of the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing […]
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the United States Armed Forces in 1928, 1932, 1933, and 1937. Of course, these were only training exercises, but just the same, the Navy’s assaults on Pearl had caught the defending forces with their pants down each and every time. The 1932 attack even saw the ‘enemy’ planes swoop in […]
Near the end of my time with the band Knockdown, Lee the bass player loaned me a copy of an album called Medusa by an English band called Trapeze. He mentioned something about wanting to learn some of their songs, but a few months later, we played our last gigs before Ray the guitar […]
A while back, I spent four segments of From the Vaults reminiscing about my high school years. Having discovered my old high school annuals (called The Tatler), it was rather fun thinking back to the things that kept me busy and off the street. The vast majority of these memories revolved around both high school […]
Okay, not so much funny, but maybe ‘funny’ as in ‘annoying’ – sometime last broadcast year, our UStream video disappeared. It took a lot of time (and some help from our helpful techie friends at the ISD in Hancock) to find out that the free service had been dropped (would it have hurt to actually […]
We last visited Joe Bonamassa-land after the release of his 2016 album Blues of Desperation (FTV: Joe’s Blues 5-4-2016). At that time, we found Bonamassa riding the crest of a wave of creativity that saw him releasing multiple live CD/DVD packages of his own work (Live at Royale Albert Hall and Live at Radio City […]
“And that’s the way it is.” For some reason this phrase used to irk my brother Ron. Any time he heard this phrase, he would snarl, “No, that’s the way you SAY it is.” I am still not sure why this riled Ron up, but coming from Walter Cronkite at the end of his […]
Raisanen, I have run two carnivals so now it is your turn.” So said my Junior High Student Council co-advisor and field trip taking buddy Bruce Johanson back in October of 1980. I am not totally sure what makes Finlanders sign up for the long haul on every project that they get involved with, but […]
Now the title of this FTV is pretty generic. It could apply to just about any endeavour, but with my background as a Geography/Earth Science teacher, it won’t surprise you that I am talking about science. Perhaps it is just a force of habit, but one of the first books I read after retirement set […]