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Yesterday, the Moon

by Daniel Brenton on July 17, 2009

Forty years ago this Monday the human race first walked upon the Moon.
Do you remember? With all the media this year, it would be hard not to.
July 20, 1969, was one of those days that every single one of us alive (and old enough to be reflective in any way) will remember exactly where [...]

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Let’s Send the President into Orbit

by Daniel Brenton on February 23, 2009

Despite his best intentions, it quickly becomes obvious Mission Specialist Swenson failed to grasp the true meaning of “selling the space program.”

Remember The Honeymooners? Jacky Gleason’s character Ralph Kramden would brandish a fist at Audrey Meadows’ Alice Kramden when they argued, and threaten her with his trademark line: “To the Moon, Alice!”
I suspect a [...]

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Outer Space as the Abode of Angels

by Daniel Brenton on November 19, 2007

There is a bizarre story involving the Soviet space program that originally circulated in the late 1980s, and still pops up here and there on the internet. Attributed to The Washington Post, the story spoke of six Soviet cosmonauts being witness to seven giant figures hanging in space, in the form of humans, with [...]

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Cosmonauts Lost

by Daniel Brenton on November 10, 2007

Did Soviet cosmonauts die in space in the early 1960s?
Any space buff worth his or her salt is keenly aware of the tragic fate of Vladimir Komarov, who died on April 24, 1967, due to parachute failure after the reentry of Soyuz 1.
But the question really is: were there events like this (or ones even [...]

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The Darkest Secret of the Moon Race

by Daniel Brenton on October 18, 2007

July 3 1969, 20:18 GMT Baikonur, Kazakhstan, USSR: The 344 foot tall N-1, the booster on which the Soviet Union has placed its hopes for defeating the United States in the race to the Moon, roars to life, its thirty rocket engines heaving the six million pound vehicle with aching slowness into the night sky, [...]

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