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Tag Archives: 1960s
Short rounds: Idols, community, and baseball bros
Despite appearances, I have been reading this past week… Elizabeth Scalia’s Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols of Everyday Life invites readers to consider those things which get between them and God. I heard sermons on this topic in my youth … Continue reading
The Lunar Missile Crisis
The moon race began in earnest when Yuri Gagarin launched off the pad in April 1961. It ended really quickly when he collided with an alien spaceship and exploded, leading to a full nuclear launch by the Soviets which failed … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged 1960s, Jaime Castle, JFK, Nixon, Rhett C Bruno, science fiction
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Astounding
I don’t remember why I picked up “Foundation” back in 2008, but it would be the beginning of an obsession with Asimov that saw me reading collection after collection of his stories from the 1930s – 1960s, finding greater and … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, science fiction
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, biography, science fiction
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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
The small Massachusetts village of Barnard’s Crossing is shaken when the body of a young woman is found lying behind a garden wall, and no one more than Rabbi David Small — because the woman’s purse was in his car, … Continue reading
We Have Capture
Tom Stafford is the last man of Gemini, having outlived all of his previous colleagues. Born in 1930 on the Oklahoma plains, he sought escape from poverty like many through the armed forces. Though too young for World War 2, … Continue reading
Carrying the Fire
Yet a higher call was calling, and we vowed we’d reach it soonSo we gave ourselves a decade to put fire on the moonAnd Apollo told the world, we can do it if we try —There was One Small Step, … Continue reading
Forever Young
If ever the title “Mr. Astronaut” was given out, it would not go to John Glenn, despite his being the posterboy of Mercury; it wouldn’t even go to Neil Armstrong, who fifty-four years ago today became the first human to … Continue reading
Nixon’s pyramid, the future, and intelligent octopus arms
At some point in the last year a book tipped me off to Tom Vanderbilt’s Survival City, in which the author tours ruins and remains of DC’s vast Cold War infrastructure while providing a history of the way popular fears … Continue reading
Fighting for Space
Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight© 2020 Amy Shira Teitel448 pages When the age of flight arrived, women were as eager to take to the skies as men. Fighting for Space is a … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, aviation, human space flight, women
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