Tag Archives: Pete Conrad

Wednesday’s Book Review: “Homesteading Space”

Posted on June 10, 2015 by launiusr

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. By David Hitt, Owen Garriott, Joseph P. Kerwin, with the diary of Alan L. Bean. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-080-3224-34-6. 548 pages. $29.95. Accounts by astronauts are sometimes entertaining, sometimes insightful and … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Space | Tagged Alan L. Bean, Carrying the Fire, David Hitt, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, Joseph P. Kerwin, Michael Collins, Owen Garriott, Paul J. Weitz, Pete Conrad, Skylab, University of Nebraska Press | 2 Comments

Extremophiles, Surveyor III, and the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth?

Posted on May 5, 2014 by launiusr

One of the most unusual stories of the U.S. lunar landing program of the 1960s involved the Surveyor III camera that journeyed to the Moon on April 20, 1967, and sat exposed on the lunar surface for 31 months before … Continue reading →

Posted in Apollo, History, Lunar Exploration, Science, Space | Tagged Alan Bean, Apollo, Apollo 12, astrobiology, Bill Nye, extremophiles, History, Leonard Jaffe, Leslie Orgel, Moon, Moon race, NASA, Pete Conrad, politics, public perceptions, public policy, science, space science, Streptococcus mitis, Surveyor III, U.S. Civil Space | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: Pete Conrad

Wednesday’s Book Review: “Homesteading Space”

Extremophiles, Surveyor III, and the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth?

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