Apollo 20: Mission to Tycho – Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
Apollo 20 was to liftoff from Kennedy Space Center on July 24, 1974 to the most adventurous site visited yet by Apollo astronauts; the rim of crater Tycho. Tycho is…
Missions we Lost When Apollo was Cancelled
Long before Apollo landed on the Moon, NASA leadership was looking at some lofty plans for Apollo hardware after the Moon. Want to know more about the planetary side? There's…
SacL5 Meeting 4/9/22
Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space SocietyWhere: Virtual presence only, via ZoomWhen: Saturday, April 9th, 2022, 5:00-7:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time(Note: Pacific Daylight Time started March 13th)Pre-Zoom notes: • These…
Green Stars mean Intelligent Life
The cosmos is littered with blue and red stars... but curiously no green ones. Why? Is this a fundamental constraint or merely an unlikely outcome? And what would it mean…
Faster-Than-Light Leads To Time Paradoxes
Is faster-than-light (FTL) travel possible? In most discussions of this, we get hung up on the physics of particular ideas, such as wormholes or warp drives. But today, we take…
SacL5 Website Traffic Report 4/8/22
Website Traffic Mar 9, 2022 to Apr 8, 2022418 visits last 30 days (-73)6297 since incept (+399)
SacL5 Meetings and Directions
The Sacramento L5 Society meets Each Month on the Second Saturday. Come Join Us! To join monthly Zoom meetings email: Joe Bland To join the Sacramento L5 Society email: Joe Bland To…
SacL5 Website Traffic Report 3/12/22
Website Traffic Feb 10, 2022 to Mar 12, 2022491 visits last 30 days5898 since incept
The Mach Effect
2297 views as of 3/12/22 Watch this video describing propellant less propulsion.https://youtu.be/z6dwPmD4oC0
The Archaeology Of The Space Age
We've been space now 55 years. Time to think about preserving history. Check out Lisa's work.Senior author of The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo SitesContributing author to Archaeology and Heritage of the…