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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
