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A Truly Hilarious Cartoon on the Apollo/Saturn Stack
This cartoon from the XKCD website helps explain with considerable humor the awesomeness of the Saturn V. It uses onlty the most common words in English to rescribe the stack. You may find the original here. Enjoy!
Posted in Apollo, Cold War Competition, History, Lunar Exploration, Personal, Politics, Space
Tagged 1960s, Apollo, awesomeness, cold war, History, Moon, Moon race, NASA, people, Saturn, saturn v, U.S. Civil Space
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Five Legacies of Space Access Since the 1950s
While a large number of issues could be explored in the now more than fifty years of space access, here are five central legacies, number three will blow your mind. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist). The limitations of chemical rocket technology … Continue reading
The Space Shuttle and the Costly Nature of Space Access
Why is space flight so expensive? Lowering the cost of space access has long been a major goal of rocketeers. Thus far they have largely been unsuccessful in doing so. Space travel started out and remains an exceptionally costly enterprise. The … Continue reading
Posted in History, Space, Space Shuttle
Tagged 1960s, Atlas, Challenger, Dale D. Myers, Delta, ELV, expendable launch vehicle, George Low, launch vehicles, NASA, Office of Management of Budget, reusable launch vehicle, Richard M. Nixon, RLV, rockets, saturn v, space access, space shuttle, Titan, U.S. Civil Space
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