The recent announcements that Sir Richard Branson will fly the first passenger mission aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and Jeff Bezos will fly the first manned Blue Origin mission sent me spinning back to 1985. Christa McAuliffe had been assigned to a space shuttle mission as the first teacher in space. Other than the […]
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.
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Mike & Donna Mullane and their passage through the year of Covid
Copyright 2021 by Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane, all rights reserved. 2020 started as all New Years do…with resolutions that THIS will finally be the year we will exercise more, lose weight, finish that novel, etc. Little did we realize, as the last notes of Auld Lang Syne were fading, we would soon be denied that […]
Challenger Remembered, by Patrick Mullane
Excerpted from the book, ‘The Father, Son and Holy Shuttle: Growing up an Astronaut’s Kid in the Glorious ’80s’, by Patrick Mullane, copyright (c) 2020 by Patrick Mullane CHAPTER 13: COLD DAY “Pat – you need to go to Mr. Neil’s office.” Ms. Trahan, my economics teacher, had just taken a note from Angela, a […]
Motivational Video for Students in Virus Quarantine
Recognizing how difficult it might be for many students to stay focused on their studies while quarantined at home, I have prepared a 15-minute motivational video (link below). The attached image is part of the video. It is a reproduction of the the introductory page from my report on my 1960 high school science fair […]
The Wilderness
by Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane, Copyright 2019 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. Photos are from author’s personal family archives, except the space shuttle launch photo, which is a NASA […]
A Vietnam Vet’s Apollo 11 Memories
by Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane, Copyright 2019 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. Photos are from author’s personal family archives. It was good to see the news coverage given to […]
My Road to Vietnam – Early Childhood
My Road to Vietnam – Early Childhood, 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. Some photos in this blog are obviously from my personal […]
DREAM MAKERS
DREAM MAKERS 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. (Photos which are not the author’s are courtesy of NASA.) DREAM MAKERS ‘That’s two hours […]
REUNION
REUNION 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. (Photos which are not the author’s are either public domain or used with the […]
The Long Shadow of Challenger
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 […]
