After a couple of months with no evening planets gracing our skies, both Mercury and Saturn will make their appearance late in the month.  It will be a bit of a viewing challenge, bu…

     Who doesn’t like stories about people being inspired to do great things?  We all have moments in our lives when something adjusts our path in one direction or another.  Not all are life …

 Perhaps there needs to be a qualifying statement tagged to the above title:  A Brief History ‘of Modern Rocketry’.  It is common knowledge that the Chinese were the first true rocketry pioneer…

       In guitarist-speak, RR has become a shorthand reference for the late Randy Rhoads.  Though Rhoads passed away when the small airplane he was a passenger in crashed (while on tour wit…

       We last visited Levon Helm in a two part FTV back in April of 2020 (FTV:  Mark L. Helm – Part 1 (4-15-20) and Part 2 (4-22-20)).  Based on his autobiography This Wheel’s on …

       The good news?  Summer officially begins with the Summer Solstice on Tuesday June 21 at 5:14 a.m. EDT.  The bad news?  We won’t dwell on it because there will be weeks of long su…