Copyright 2018 by Richard Mike Mullane, all rights reserved. Author of Riding Rockets, The outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. “…NASA’s drive to achieve a launch schedule of 24-flights per year created pressure throughout the agency that directly contributed to unsafe launch operations.”…House Committee on the Challenger Disaster Like my earlier post, this entry is […]
Astroblog
Welcome to my AstroBlog. I occasionally post articles here, and when I do, I send out a notice to my Facebook followers and LinkedIn connections.
For those visitors who haven’t yet read my memoir, Riding Rockets, The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, I would encourage you to do so. It will give you a deeper insight into some of subjects I will be talking about in my writing. Be aware, you might find some parts of my memoir R-rated.
You have several options to order autographed/dedicated copies: from my website Online Store; or, purchase a copy elsewhere and mail it to me for an autograph; or, purchase an autographed/dedicated book label from my website store to paste into a book you already have; or download a copy of the book from Amazon to your e-reader (obviously, no dedication/autograph with that option).
Challenger Mountaintop Memorial
CHALLENGER POINT MEMORIAL By Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane Copyright 2018 by Richard Mike Mullane, all rights reserved. Author of Riding Rockets, The outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. Autographed copies of Riding Rockets can be ordered from the Online store on this website. It is certainly the most remote memorial to the space shuttle […]
40th Anniversary of the Astronaut Class of 1978…the TFNGs
40th Anniversary of the Astronaut Class of 1978…the TFNGs by R. Mike Mullane (NASA Astronaut, Ret.) copyright 2018 all rights reserved. Author of Riding Rockets, The outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. Autographed copies of Riding Rockets can be ordered from the Online store on this website. January 16, 2018 will mark a […]
Who’s a Hero?
by R. Mike Mullane (NASA Astronaut, Ret.) © 2017 All Rights Reserved Author, Riding Rockets, the outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. Autographed copies can be ordered via Mullane’s website store: www.MikeMullane.com “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a true American hero…Astronaut Mike Mullane!” Applause carries me to the stage and I start my program. Whenever I […]
Taking Our Humanity to Mars
by R. Mike Mullane (NASA Astronaut, Ret.) © 2017 All Rights Reserved Author, Riding Rockets, the outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. Autographed copies can be ordered via Mullane’s website store: www.MikeMullane.com Recently, as I was sitting at my desk, my wife came to me, leaned down, put her arms around me, kissed the top […]
“Until death do us part.”
“Until death do us part.” Most of us have uttered those words, or some version of them, in various wedding rites and, as we did so, we probably gave little thought to the enormity of commitment which they embodied, i.e., to live with somebody forever, as in FOREVER. It was fifty years ago this past […]
Infinite Horizons
Several weeks ago, I was on a business trip to New Zealand. Looking from the window during the day portion of the nearly 13-hour nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Auckland, my memory was refreshed on the unrelieved immensity of the Pacific Ocean. It was an immensity I first came to appreciate during my rookie […]
Not thinking ’bout tomorrow…
NOT THINKING ‘BOUT TOMORROW… by Astronaut (Ret.) Richard “Mike” Mullane © copyright 2017 by Richard M. Mullane And we were trying different things We were smoking funny things Making love out by the lake to our favorite song Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking ’bout tomorrow Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long…. ‘All […]
Risk: Rockets vs. Donuts
Several years ago, after my annual NASA physical exam, the doctor gave me a very definitive number on my risk of staying alive for the next decade, or at least of staying alive in a condition of reasonably good health. Specifically, he said, I have an 8.2 percent risk of suffering a major cardiac event […]
