Tag: space

• The Space Race

  Beginning in the mid-1950s, the Space Race produced two decades of US-Soviet rivalry as the two superpowers strove to claim mastery of space exploration. — Read on alphahistory.com/coldwar/space-race/

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  29 May 2019

  history, travel

  1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, books, history, movies, politics, space, television, World War II

• Tickets to Mars Will Eventually Cost Less Than $500,000, Elon Musk Says | Space

  

  SpaceX’s Mars ships won’t be ferrying just the super rich to and from the Red Planet, if everything goes according to Elon Musk’s plan. — Read on www.space.com/elon-musk-spacex-mars-mission-price.html

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  13 Feb 2019

  history, travel

  Elon Musk, Houston, Mars, NASA, space, space travel

• R. E. Smith, Multimillionaire Who Aided in Astrodome, Dies – The New York Times

  

  Smith, R E — Read on www.nytimes.com/1973/12/01/archives/r-e-smith-multimillionaire-who-aided-in-astrodome-dies-once-an.html

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  31 Jan 2019

  baseball, basketball, football, history, sports

  1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Astros, baseball, basketball, books, business, cooperstown, Disco, food, football, history, Houston, kids, medicine, mlb, movies, music, national baseball hall of fame, NBA, NCAA, new york, oil, politics, rock, Roy Hofheinz, SABR, space, sports, television, Texas, UH