Book Review: The Spaceflight Vault – A History of NASA’s Manned Missions

The Spaceflight Vault – A History of NASA’s Manned Missions by Mark Mayfield; Whitman Publishing, LLC; Atlanta, Georgia; $49.95 (hard cover/box); 2010. Here’s a book that keeps on giving and giving. This volume is designed as a scrapbook, but also provides a...

2010 Desert RATS Nears Mid Point

  NASA’s Desert RATS is nearing the half-way point of its 15-day, 2010 field exercises on the Black Point Lava Flow in Northern Arizona. It’s been nearly 24/7 for the 100 engineers and scientists involved in the high tech demonstration of rovers, habitats...

Happy 33rd, Voyager I

  Sunday marked the 33rd anniversary of NASA’s Voyager I launching, the second of twin spacecraft that conducted historic flyby missions of the  solar system’s outermost  planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 lifted off on Aug. 20, 1977....