Who are the New, New Nine?

By: firstchevalier (Diary)  |  February 19th at 06:53 PM  | 

This past weekend beginning on February 17th NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s historic flight aboard Friendship 7 in which he became the first American to orbit the earth in space. Of the original nine Mercury astronauts only John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, also in attendance, were present along with a large number of other project personnel. The article covering the event | Read More »

Welcome to Second Place

By: firstchevalier (Diary)  |  January 24th at 08:15 AM  | 

We are now officially not the leading space agency in the world and I’d like to bid a fond farewell to the shuttles heading to static display (article found here). We are arguably second to Russia who can still get men and materiel to the International Space Station. For that matter, China is actively pursuing manned space flight as well striving to land on the | Read More »