The Docking Step Isn’t the Waste. The Capsule Is.
Apollo’s planners spent most of 1962 in a brawl over a single decision, and the side that won looked, at first, like the crazy one. The fight was about how to get to the Moon. One camp wanted to fly the whole spacecraft down to the surface and back – simple, direct, no fancy maneuvers.…
In Astronomy VS Astrology, Astrology Wins by Never Stepping Into the Ring
In 1975, 186 scientists put their names on a document meant to bury astrology for good. The magazine The Humanist ran it under the title “Objections to Astrology.” Eighteen of the signatories were Nobel laureates. The text called astrology a superstition and warned the public against its “pretentious claims.” It was the establishment flexing its…