Danny Tio > Recent Status Updates

I didn't know that the K-7 station was based on a real and very random space station conceptual design. I really need to find the original paper. Heck, the entire 1960 Manned Space Stations Symposium proceedings. Why Roddenberry chose the Douglas Aircraft design over other colony-like station concepts like the Von Braun/Potočnik wheel confuses me.

Thank you to Schiffer Publishing for sending me a copy of this book to review and promote on Galactic Greaser. Pausing all my other current reads to get into this one, seems interesting.

I'm growing wearily suspicious. (More spoilers)
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I don't think Tom's death was an accident. Someone must have sabotaged the helicopter before his flight. I don't want to jump to conclusions yet, but I suspect that this was an inside job to let Chad become prime commander and fly to the Moon.

Okay WOW what the heck? (Spoilers)
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Vitaly's SOURCE? One of the Apollo 18 astronauts is a KGB spy? I suspect he's probably not a prime crew member as it's described that his assignment on this mission would make him front-of-the line for Skylab and Shuttle.

And given that "Bobs" Crippen and Overmeyer are real people in the backup crew, it couldn't be them. I don't know, I have a bad feeling about Chad...

Yet another simple slipup. I understand the author's intention of drawing parallels between space shuttle Columbia and Apollo 11's Columbia. But it was Eagle, not Columbia, that Armstrong landed on the Moon.

"The entire structure bananas."

This is officially my favorite description of thermoelastic deformation.

The author seems to have made a typo on page 158 stating that the Saturn "1C" launched Skylab 2 instead of 1B, and repeated the error here. With a book this thoroughly researched and well-presented so far, this simple slip-up was unexpected.