Remembering a recent, very busy day in space

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Published on: May 27, 2012

Lost in the noise of all the preparations to launch the SpaceX Falcon 9 a week or so ago, I’m not sure anyone in the space community really noticed it, but on one day, Thursday, May 17, here’s what happened… After launching from Kazakhstan late on Monday the 15th, on Thursday the 17th at 12:36[…]

SpaceX poised to make history. If all goes well.

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Published on: May 13, 2012

If all goes well, early this coming Saturday morning, well before sunrise, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft on top will launch from complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on what could be an historic cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. If all goes well with an extensive[…]

The spirit of entrepreneurship and exploration together in space

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Published on: May 6, 2012

Friday’s Atlas 5 launch was clearly the top space news story of the day here on Florida’s Space Coast, but another important space-related event happened that may have gotten lost in the noise. Sierra Nevada – not the mountain range, college or brewing company but one of the new commercial space companies competing with others[…]

U.S. human spaceflight dead? Hardly!

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Published on: April 29, 2012

Once again a space shuttle orbiter was on the move this past week as Enterprise was flown to New York City, and thousands of people waved, cheered and generally went crazy with excitement. And – like they did when Discovery was flown to the nation’s capital – news reporters, columnists, bloggers and tweeters bemoaned the[…]

Discovery’s bittersweet departure from Kennedy Space Center

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Published on: April 22, 2012

This past week the Space Shuttle Discovery departed the Kennedy Space Center for good, flown to our nation’s capital atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Bittersweet, was the word most commonly used here on the Space Coast as people described their feelings about the day. And I must say there truly is no better[…]

60 Minutes gives Brevard County an unfair “Hard Landing”

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Published on: April 15, 2012

And a shout out to my friend, Mark DeCotis Two weeks ago the CBS News television program 60 Minutes broadcast a piece about Brevard County entitled “Hard Landing.” The segment focused on several Space Coast workers and local business owners who were directly affected by the decision in 2004 to end the Space Shuttle program.[…]

No apologies: Here’s a bad joke in honor of April Fool’s Day 2012

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Published on: April 1, 2012

It is April Fool’s day today so for this week’s edition of Orbital Inclinations I thought I would lighten things up a bit and share with you a version of one of my favorite space-related jokes, inspired by one I once heard during a previous century at a Space Congress in Cocoa Beach – and[…]

Remembering Wernher von Braun 100 years after he was born

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Published on: March 25, 2012

This past Friday would have been Wernher von Braun’s 100th birthday. The famous German rocket scientist was born on March 23, 1912 and passed away in 1977 at the all-too-young age of 65. While the heroic task of landing men on the Moon during Project Apollo was most certainly a team effort, involving literally hundreds[…]

Offseason for the space program: been there, done that

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Published on: March 18, 2012

March madness is in full swing on the college basketball courts, and spring training is in full bloom on baseball fields here in Florida and in Arizona. Both of which can mean only one thing to me: we are in the offseason for NFL football. But just because my Minnesota Vikings aren’t playing each week[…]

Some good news and bad: Honoring Kepler, remembering friends

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Published on: March 11, 2012

This week I don’t really have an opinion to share, so much as I have some good news and some bad news to tell you. First, the good news: If you listened to the March 4, 2012 edition of Space Talk on NASA’s Kepler mission to find planets around other stars in the galaxy, you[…]

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