Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'Space Shuttle'

Rabbit in the Moon

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Rabbit in the Moon

Just one of those days, alas. Back tomorrow with a post on mercury mining in Kyrgyzstan; ’til then, bone up on the history of China’s space shuttle, one of my favorite pieces of aeronautic vaporware.

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The Money Pit

February 24th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Back in 1985 or thereabouts, I made the worst business decision of my life: I traded all of my Star Wars action figures to a classmate, in exchange for a Fisher-Price Space Shuttle that made “beep beep” noises when a rubber buttons was depressed. To my credit, I realized within a matter of days that […]

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