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  • Moonshot Astronaut Families: Update

    Moonshot Astronaut Families: Update

    UPDATED August 11 , 2024. After a year and a half of research, my Moonshot Astronaut Families project has taken on a sharper focus: the story of one cohort of astronaut families, particularly the wives, of NASA Astronaut Group 3, and a longer time frame (so much data and still more to gather). Below is…


  • Lurton Scott: Moonshot Era

    Lurton Scott: Moonshot Era

    Celebrating my mom today. She would have been 85 years old. She died in 2016, before I had the idea for my current research project (Moonshot Astronaut Families). I spent many hours going through her papers after she died, and I discovered new, and sometimes surprising, insights into her life during the early astronaut days.…


  • 1960’s Space Tech

    1960’s Space Tech

    24 humans journeyed to the moon from 1968 to 1972. No humans have been to the moon since. What was it like to fly in space in the 1960s and 70s? What was onboard technology like for the original Moon Shot Astronauts?  Technology onboard Apollo Watch my “show-and-tell” about the Apollo onboard technology experience in…