Tag Archives: Kennedy Space Center
Going Ballistic for Profit: Privatizing Major Tom
One of the stellar American achievements of the last half-century has been privatized. It is the latest chapter in the neoliberal transformation that has changed a county with a market economy into a market society. Few things in recent American history captured the imagination and interest of pubic the way the space race did. At […]
Flashback Friday: Apollo 10
On June 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon and captivated the world’s attention. It’s often forgotten two months earlier a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral that put in place the final building blocks for the moon landing. This week in 1969 Apollo 10, an often forgotten mission launched from Cape Canaveral from the […]
Flashback Friday: Apollo 8
This week in 1968 one of the most important space missions in history launched from Cape Canaveral. Apollo 8 was the first ever space mission to leave the earth’s orbit and to circle the moon. In the process they became the first humans to see the earth as a whole planet from space. It took […]
Climate Change already being seen at Kennedy Space Center
Unfortunately at an environmentally sensitive place like Cape Canaveral this was just a matter of time. The below video from the University of Florida Geology Department lays out the grim news for all to see. Among the findings were: Dunes that historically protected Kennedy Space Center from high seas even during the worst storms were […]
The Florida Squeeze 