I was pleased with last Friday’s “Because It’s Friday“, published on December 6th about December 6th. So, when last Friday, December 6th, I saw this video on YouTube, again featuring December 6th – it had to be today’s post. I loved the term “premature propellant depletion”! Here is what NASA …
Because It’s Friday – Space Stamp Collecting
For this week’s “Because It’s Friday”, I have a couple of old books for you. I just came across Dreams of Space – Books and Ephemera blog, written by John Sisson, by accident whilst looking up some historical information about stamps. Of course when I saw the title of Intra-Space …
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Because It’s Friday – A Cyber Security Joke and…
My son told me this cyber security joke, this week, as suggested material for a Because It’s Friday post. So here it is: The Cyber Security Joke I tried to use beeFsteW as a password but I was told it was not stroganoff. He’s a maths teacher! Because It’s Friday …
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Because It’s Friday – Slow Motion Space Video
This slow motion space video popped up in my YouTube about ten minutes after I posted last week’s Because It’s Friday, so I had to wait a week to bring it to you. It is high resolution NASA film of the recent Artemis launch, edited into an easily digestible short …
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Because It’s Friday – A Trip to Mars
There was an interesting article that attracted my attention in The Guardian, by John Naughton about Wernher von Braun, often called the “Father of the American Space Program”. For those of you that do not know it, von Braun and some other technicians who had worked with him on the …