J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek was born on May 1, 1910 in Chicago, Ill. He died on April 27, 1986 at the age of 75 from a malignant brain tumor at Memorial Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Hynek was classified as an expert in astrophysics. He received a B.S. from the University of Chicago received in [...]
Eiffel Tower – A French Eyesore
On March 31, 1889 the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated. It opened a little over a month later on May 6th. The tower is named for its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel.
It took two years to built the tower and was used as the entry arch for the 1889 World’s Fair that marked the 100th [...]
Springing Ahead
For those who don’t know the rhyme we spring ahead an hour in the spring and fall backward one hour, in the fall. Some people mistakenly call it Daylight Savings Time, but it is Daylight Saving Time. There is not ‘S’. In 2007 with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that President George Bush [...]
Friday the 13th
A Friday that occurs on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in many cultures around the globe. Any month that begins on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th. Every year has at least one and some may have as many as three Fridays the [...]
A Fire in Space Exploration
President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s was well on scheduled until January 27, 1967. On that day the project was put on hold. A fire in the command module sitting atop a Saturn IB rocket, just weeks before the first manned [...]
The Moons of Jupiter
In a letter dated January 7th, Galileo Galilei wrote about a discovery of his of what he thought were three fixed stars near Jupiter. Soon he found that there were four and they weren’t stars but bodies that were in orbit around the planet.
Even though these four moon are bright, they would not have [...]
Two Geminis Become One
On its third attempt Gemini Mission 6A, with Command Pilot Walter M. (Wally) Schirra and Pilot Thomas (Tom) P. Stafford launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 15, 1965.
On its fourth orbit Gemini 6A meet Gemini 7, with Command Pilot Frank F. Borman II and Pilot James A. Lowell Jr., which [...]
A Ball in Space
It was on October 4, 1957 that the Soviet Union took the first step in what has been called the US-USSR Space Race. It was on that date that they put Sputnik I into Earth’s orbit.
The first artificial satellite was 58 cm or 22.3 inches in diameter. This is just a little [...]
Kodak – Eastman Picks a Name
What’s in a name? For George Eastman the name is Kodak. It was on September 4, 1888 that he patented the name Kodak.
When applying to the British Patent Office his comments were; “This is not a foreign name or word; it was constructed by me to serve a definite purpose. It has [...]
The Great Hurricane of 1933
1933 had a very active summer for hurricanes. By mid-August there had already been 7 recorded storms with one of them turning into a hurricane. Beginning on August 17th a storm was detected northeast of the Leeward Islands. When the center of the storm made landfall of the United States over Norfolk, Virginia as a [...]
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