Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | February 5, 2007
Orlando Sentinel
A NASA astronaut is being held without bail after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut’s attention at Orlando International Airport Monday.
Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the astronaut Nowak pined for, according [...]
Chuck Simmins | August 25, 2006
What did George Bush know and when did he know it?
What efforts are bing made on behalf of the many refugees from Pluto created by this decision?
Shouldn’t NASA be disbanded? After all, they’ve operated for decades telling us that Pluto was a planet. NASA lied! Pluto died!
Those of us who supported Titan for planethood are [...]
Chuck Simmins | June 15, 2006
NASA
There’s a new crater on the Moon. It’s about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
NASA astronomers watched it form: “On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon’s Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that’s about the same as 4 tons of TNT,” [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 3, 2003
When you look at the major Star Fleet characters in all the Star Trek shows and movies, most are American if they are not alien. I realize not all, but most. Star Fleet is located in San Francisco. An American, Zefram Cochran, invented our warp drive. And Kirk’s sexual harrassment of Yeoman Rand was pure [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 3, 2003
Somewhere along the line, NASA lost the dream. You know the one. Boldly going where no man had gone before.
Nit picking by small minds. Government bureaucrats with no imagination. Something killed the dream.
In less than a hundred years, the Vulcans come. That’s the Star Trek mythos, and, you know what, why not?
Space flight is a [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 1, 2003
Sixteen minutes from home. And, now, called to a different home. A Valhalla where they fly free, forever.Space is the Final Frontier, and these were our best, sent out towards the stars. They knew the danger and the risk. And went anyway. Generations unborn will owe these heros much. The dreams that we see in [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 1, 2003
Check news for futher info.It appears the space shuttle Columbia may have broken up on reentry this morning over Texas. News video on Fox News shows multiple contrails. Contact with presumed debris should be avoided as they may be heavily contaminated.
