The Right Stuff” (2020) reboot's launch has yet to achieve escape velocity… – Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek
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Last updated 17 Jul 2024
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Tom Wolfe’s Book. I have such vivid memories of author Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book, “The Right Stuff”; primarily because I delivered a book report on it in high school, but didn’t have time to read the book! Fortunately, I was already a space fanatic who knew the names of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts…
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This MiG Super Fighter Terrified NATO. Then a Soviet Pilot Stole One.
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Still going 'a little mad sometimes' for 1960's “Psycho
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AppleTV's “For All Mankind” kicks off Season 3 with “Polaris,” a
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Fifty years after the real thing, the movie “Apollo 13” (1995
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Longshot Space wants to make space launch dumb — and really
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2020 SO - Wikipedia
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Godspeed, John Glenn… – Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek
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Godspeed, John Glenn… – Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek
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The Right Stuff” (2020) reboot's launch has yet to achieve escape
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USATF 20 km Championships
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ALIENS” (1986) took a lone monster and turned it into an army
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