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Apollo 13

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    August 8, 2011

    The Five Astronaut Autobiographies Everyone Should Read

    Riding Rockets: Raunchy, raucous and funny.​Astronaut autobiographies can be a very mixed bag. On the one hand, that should be surprising given the harrowing, thrilling life-and-death stories which are inherent; on the other hand, the authors are generally not very good writers. And even if t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    The Best Summer Movie Soundtracks Of The '90s

    This movie is old enough to drive.​Summer is officially here, even though it's been ball-dripping sweaty since at least early May. This is also about the time that we are already steeped in big-budget Hollywood summer would-be blockbusters, the kind of movies that have fast-food promotions and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Apollo 13: The Theater Show

    This is a trailer for Apollo 13: Mission Control, posted on NASA's Buzzroom blog today. The show is not a NASA production, it's an interactive theater piece that, as far as we can tell, is done in New Zealand and Australia. The show's website says: To transport you to Houston, Texas, the theatre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Apollo 14 Splashed Down 40 Years Ago Today: Six Odd Things About It

    A collectible version of the only Apollo 14 moment most people remember​Apollo 14 -- the safely numbered one after that, um, other one -- splashed down 40 years ago today. Since there were no dancing-on-the-edge death-defying dramatic escapes on this one, the mission is largely lost to histor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Vote Quimby Bristol

    ​Is it really almost over? Why, it seems like only yesterday we were bidding farewell to "The Hoff" and Michael Bolton was taking offense at Judge Bruno's harsh comments about his "jive" dancing (while remaining curiously unaffected by similar criticisms of his music). But it's true: tonight s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    HISD and Its Pluses and Minuses in Apollo 20 Schools

    Apollo 20 or Apollo 13?​For two business days now, Houston ISD staff crunched numbers at Hair Balls' request and finally came up with a more finely tuned status report on the transfers out of and into the Apollo 20 schools so far this year. We published an earlier accounting using the exact figure ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Houston, We Have A....Well, Let's Look At What The Cliche Is Gving Us Recently

    The "gift" that keeps giving​"Houston, we have a problem," as many (most?) Houstonians know, is not what was said on Apollo 13."Houston, we've had a problem" is the actual quote. But that wasn't deemed dramatic enough for fiction, so changes were made, much to the relief of headline writers, newsp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    Apollo 13: Anatomy of a Failure

    Fly me to the moon...oh, wait, we missed it!

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    You Think Today's NASA Mission Posters Are Lame?

    Photos courtesy Bonhams​A while back, there was some general web guffawing over what was perceived as NASA's lame mission posters, which have trended towards spoofing popular movies. (We kinda liked them, actually.)Now we're getting a glance at how bad things used to be.On Tuesday -- the 40th anni ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    "Andrea Dezso: Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly"

    Apollo 13's famous failed mission sparked this Romanian artist's imagination

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Everybody in tha Chamber

    Apollo 13's famous failed mission sparked this Romanian artist's imagination

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