This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair — an event shaped by the Soviet Union’s launch of sputnik, President Eisenhower’s creation of NASA and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon. I’ve been working on a series of short radio pieces about the fair with public radio […]
Sometimes the Internet is too darn distracting. A day spent learning about airplanes, rugby, Rico, Salvador Dali, the What's My Line TV show and Anita and Arabella, two spiders who went to space.
With the help of Twitter-buddy Isaac Alexander, I spent a good chunk of this Labor Day weekend putting together a list of aerospace museums to keep track of and, perhaps, to feature on Museum Mondays here at StuckatTheAirport.com. The process took quite a bit longer than it might have because I kept clicking on links […]