In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we move into 1966, NASA is growing and the world is changing.
Read More »Adapting to a New Environment – Space
As the year 1965 ended, astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman were proving that human beings could adapt to the environment of space, having lived there for almost two weeks before successfully returning home in this episode of the Terranauts podcast.
Read More »We Have Company Tonight – Rendezvous in Space
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we finally get the Gemini party together on orbit.
Read More »Gemini VI, The Third Time’s The Charm
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we will finally get the crew of Gemini VI to orbit… although it may take a little while longer than we thought.
Read More »NASA Day of Remembrance – Why We Remember
Each January NASA pauses to honour NASA astronauts who lost their lives in cause of space exploration. This year, today, the 26th of January is the day NASA has chosen to mark this Day Of Remembrance.
Read More »Terranauts – Making Lemonade
When we left the Gemini program in the last this episode of the Terranauts podcast, President Lyndon B Johnson was just stepping up the microphone at his ranch in Texas to explain how NASA was going to respond to the failure of Gemini 6 barely 72 hours previously.
Read More »And in Conclusion – Part 7 of An Entrepreneurial Space Series
This is part 7 of my 6 part series on An Entrepreneurial Space. Yes, you read that right. I started this series with six parts in mind talking about the various "players" in the world of Entrepreneurial Space. By the end of the last part, though, I felt like a bit more was needed to bring the whole summarizes together. And since the last article …
Read More »Terranauts – The Spirit of 76
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast, NASA suffers a major failure in the Gemini program. NASA’s response would be critical to getting the program back on track.
Read More »Best Supporting Actor? Part 6 of An Entrepreneurial Space Series
This is part 6 of my series on An Entrepreneurial Space. If you have not read the previous parts, I would suggest that you might want to do so before starting on this one as they will provide some much-needed context. In the previous articles we have talked about The Journey that the Founders of space companies make and some of the characters they encounter …
Read More »Gemini VI – No Joy, No Joy
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast, NASA is about about to launch Gemini VI but something happens somethings that had never happened to a crewed mission before.
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