RichC | April 10, 2026
NASA successfully launched Artemis 2, its first astronaut mission to the moon since 1972 on April 1. The mission sent four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft which travel further from earth than any human has ever traveled. On Friday evening, the spacecraft will reenter the earth atmosphere and […]
RichC | April 9, 2026
As a child of the space race growing up in the 1960s and 70s, astronauts and NASA could do no wrong in my eyes — of course I wasn’t paying taxes either. 😉 This past week with Artemis II traveling around the moon and further into space than a manned space flight as ever gone, […]
RichC | March 14, 2026
Although watching SpaceX unmanned launches has become normal, many long time NASA observers are anxiously waiting for the Artemis II manned capsule launch planned for 2026. The upcoming launch for around the moon mission has been postponed a couple times due to an “abundance of caution.” It has been a long time that a manned […]
RichC | March 24, 2022
It was exciting to see the new Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule move toward Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B this month as space-nerds anticipate NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission. The sight of such a large rocket “crawling” toward the launch pad brings back the Apollo program of my youth and the Space […]