Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

I’ve always been inter­ested in space flight and I found these high def­i­n­i­tion videos on Vimeo of early NASA flights.

Those imor­tal words were spo­ken by astro­naut Neil Arm­strong 40 years ago today. On July 20, 1969 the dream of man to walk on the face of another celes­tial body, a dream as old as the heav­ens them­selveswas finally ful­filed. The work of thou­sands of sci­en­tists, engi­neers, con­trac­tors and astro­nauts was brought together for this […]

Forty years ago this Mon­day, Neil Arm­strong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps on the moon. Dur­ing all the cel­e­bra­tion around this his­toric event a key mem­ber of that crew is often for­got­ten, Major Gen­eral Michael Collins. Collins decided to join NASA after John Glenn’s his­toric flight. The thought of cir­cling high above the earth drove him […]

Forty years ago today Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on it’s way to the moon! The great­est tech­no­log­i­cal endeavor ever taken on by mankind was under way. John F. Jennedy gave his famous “We choose to go to the moon..” speech only days after we put the first man in SUB­or­bit and now […]

>Accord­ing to this arti­cle on space.com the “space ele­va­tor” is not to far away. The Lift­Port Group, the space ele­va­tor com­pa­nies, announced Sep­tem­ber 9 that it has received a waiver from the Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) to use air­space to con­duct pre­lim­i­nary tests of its high alti­tude robotic lifters. The lifters are early pro­to­types of […]