NASA – Epik Fails of History!

June 20, 2024

From the Earth to the Moon: The Origins of NASA and the Space Race (1514-1972)

“Failure is not an option.” – Gene Kranz (NASA Flight Director, during Apollo 13) Just 66 years after the Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903, […]

May 10, 2024

The Soviet VENERA Space Probes (USSR: 1961-1985)

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched “Sputnik” – the first satellite into orbit, in 1957, sparking the Space Race between the […]

May 6, 2024

The Space Shuttle Program (NASA: 1977-2011)

When Ben and I were working on “Epic Fails – The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff”, we went way over our word count, and actually […]

April 3, 2024

Future of the Digital Age – Part 3: Robotics, Quantum Computing, and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence – A Timeline (2000-2024)

Back in Part One (Mechanical Clocks, Electricity, and Radio), I first laid out the innovations that led to the creation of the world’s first computer, everything […]

March 15, 2024

History of the Digital Age – Part 2: The Transistor, Microchips, and the Dawn of the Internet – A Timeline (1936-2000)

Last time, in Part One (Mechanical Clocks, Electricity, and Radio), we talked about the Abacus, the Chinese ‘Cosmic Engine’, the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, robots in early […]