Per ardua ad astra I am sitting watching the commentary of the second SpaceX Starship, drinking a coffee on the porch in the first real rain of the sea.
“The Six,” by Loren Grush This is the story of America’s first women astronauts, told by a writer who was the daughter of two NASA engineers. Grush’s bio says she “grew up surrounded by astronauts and Space Shuttles,” so her knowledge is first-hand. Her writing avoids esoteric science trivia while making the technical facts understandable. […]
Two iconic Solid Rocket Motors - the kind that once propelled America's famed Space Shuttles into orbit - will be displayed vertically with the shuttle Endeavour at L.A.'s California Science Center.
Hundreds of people, mostly children, lined both side of the streets outside Exposition Park waiting for the motors to turn into the California Science Center.