When briefing the MAT, Crew Trainers make (or at least did when I attended) an explicit comparison to the Mercury MASTIF trainer, even though that device had actual controls/purpose and the MAT is more like a ride than a trainer. For the air cushion sims (like those used on EVAs), nobody ever mentio...

I visited USSRC today and snapped some photos of progress on Pathfinder:

Fantastically nerdy theater writer Helen Arney is working on a play about the Mercury 13 called "Almost Astronauts". On episode 3.1 (October 10, 2023) of A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail she shared one of the songs written for (and subsequently cut from) the show, about Wally Funk. Check it...

Im not a fan of the Huntsville airport. I'm surprised. Beyond the cost (unavoidable in a small airport), I find the airport to be excellent. I do agree entirely about there being multiple sides to a story and a general lack of airline "customer service". This being American Airlines in pa...

Check out this excellent and fascinating talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer: https://youtu.be/B1J2RMorJXM

This doesn't refect well on Huntsville: "Suluai-Mahuka, a high school English teacher, wrote she departed Huntsville's U.S. Space & Rocket Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on a "joyous high." She and all state teachers of the year had been invited to the space camp th...

Another Robert Pearlman podcast appearance, this time in a pun-packed episode of the Business Insider podcast Brought to you by... called NASA Uncut.

Futility Closet is one of my favorite podcasts, each week featuring a fascinating "forgotten stor[y] from the pages of history", plus a lateral thinking puzzle. This week's episode is 316: A Malaysian Mystery . I'm sharing it because the lateral thinking puzzle (which starts at 25:55) has ...

p51 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:55 pm It isn't free, you actually have to sign in with your credit card number under some sort of promotional deal to get into that service.

It was free for a period of time, no credit card required, as media companies were offering content to entertain folks stuck at home during the pandemic.

Kelly Preston, the actress best known* for playing Tish Ambrosei in the 1986 film SpaceCamp, died yesterday after a two year battle with breast cancer. More details on CNN.com . https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjBiMTczYjktOTAzNS00ZjI1LWFjZGYtMWUzMjE1ZTJlNTA4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_....

"For All Mankind" is a dramatic historical fiction series on Apple TV that imagines a world in which the USSR lands on the moon before the USA. It's currently free to watch. I just finished the second episode and my reaction is a solid "meh". I was excited by the totally unique c...

I thought it was satire when I first read it

Looking forward to watching it, should be fun.

At least two Space Camp Hall of Famers quoted in this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics ... 360ddc0c91

Incidentally, that's a great team photo! I love how the STA looks like it has a little grin.

Just got back from Family Camp and our team photo was in front of the LM mockup in the Davidson Center. I much would've preferred this one.

Oh, wow. We attended several times together and she was a really fun teammate.

We were friends on Facebook, but somehow I missed this when it happened. Thanks for posting it.

This is the control software for the Phobos station sim at Camp, suggesting the Roadster's potential fate: http://www.schwartzster.com/images/forums/roadster_on_the_moon.jpg P.S. Careful when you talk to people from Martian moons. Those Phobotians are okay, but you don't want to get a Deimotion. :ro...

I believe he is the first living member of the Space Camp Hall of Fame to pass away.

Space exploration legend, creator of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, respected Camp lecturer, and member of the Space Camp Hall of Fame died yesterday:

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/inde ... _last.html

I am in Omaha for work this week and today I had the chance to check out the Strategic Air Command Museum in nearby Ashland, NE. I was surprised by the number of NASA artifacts, so I thought I'd share. The museum is gorgeous. An Atlas mission stands guard outside (along with a few other missiles and...

I drove up to Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, TN. Experience totality for two and a half minutes. It was amazing ! People were intrigued by my little projector set up, which was fun: http://www.schwartzster.com/images/forums/hab1/eclipse/IMG_20170821_113710197-1000.jpg http://www.schwartzster.com/imag...