Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
Musings on space travel, science fiction, and the radiant future
Did you ever hear the tragedy of William Rutledge the astronaut? No? I thought not. It's not a story NASA would tell you. Gather round, dear readers, and listen as I tell you a tale of woe and wonder---the tale of a secret Apollo mission that made contact with aliens, on the dark side of... Continue Reading →
In 1970 the final three Apollo flights---18, 19, and 20---were cancelled, victims of the penny-pinching Nixon administration, and their hardware was either shelved or used for the Skylab program. As a result, only twelve humans from six missions have walked on the Moon. Or so the government would have you believe. I've recently rewatched Apollo 18,... Continue Reading →
Post by Nic Quattromani: The Apollo missions, as intrepid as they were, did not venture into wholly uncharted territory. By the time Neil Armstrong famously planted his boots in the lunar soil, a whole fleet of US spacecraft had already explored and mapped out the globe of the Moon in meticulous detail. There were the... Continue Reading →
Post by Nic Quattromani: I’m sure many of us are familiar with the book and film The Martian, in which NASA ends up with one of its astronauts stranded alone on another world, and has to mount a desperate effort to rescue him. As far as space mishaps go, that is one of the most... Continue Reading →
Let's Get Off This Rock Already! 