The traditional way for astronauts to arrive at the Kennedy Space Center was in a T-38, the world’s first supersonic trainer jet. It also tragically resulted in unexpected changes in astronaut rosters due to accidents, including one where the astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett were lost when their T-38 collided with the Vehicle AssemblyContinue reading “At the Space Center”
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Cedar Key
Remembering summer and boats around the numerous islets of Cedar Key.
Rainbows and Showers
Like a blister, the “Bay of Rainbows” (Sinus Iridium) pouches out from the Ocean of Showers (Mare Imbrium) on the Moon. The bay is rimmed by the remains of the semicircular wall of a large crater seen catching the rays of the rising sun in this image. Perhaps this is the rainbow that the cartographerContinue reading “Rainbows and Showers”
Rumming* Out of Diplomacy
Time to buy more Diplomatico! (see https://eskildoodle.com/2022/02/03/rum-diplomacy/) * Thanks for the idea, Emily!
Happiness
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a ukulele, and that’s pretty close.” (author unknown.) Yes, it sounds as beautiful as it looks and that does make me happy. This ukulele came from Moorea, French Polynesia, made by a local named Woody Howard. I played it for 20 minutes or more at his shopContinue reading “Happiness”
Seriously?
No comment.
Rum Diplomacy?
Perhaps some rum and ice could go a long ways to cool off some of the world’s hot spots. Just add some Coke, after all it is the “real thing.”
Raking Up Memories
Once upon a time, along the Platte River in Nebraska.
Good Librations
Due to the tilt of the Moon’s orbit, it nods north and south during its circuit around Earth allowing us to see a little more of the Moon’s surface than if didn’t tilt. In this case the maximum nodding, or “libration” corresponded with the first and the last quarter of the Moon. The two photosContinue reading “Good Librations”
Funny Bunny
DREAM BIG!
Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings 