by tjb | Jun 1, 2023 | Author's Posts
Kemper Arena * The Kemper Arena opened in 1973 as the new home of the Kansas Kings basketball team. Because the roof was suspended from above, it featured uninterrupted sight lines. The innovative design earned the architect an Honor Award from the American Institute...
by tjb | May 24, 2023 | Author's Posts
Apollo Fire * One of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight occurred on January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral. They were...
by tjb | May 18, 2023 | Author's Posts
Chernobyl * The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the #4 reactor in the Chernobyl Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Called the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear...
by tjb | May 10, 2023 | Author's Posts
Apollo 13 * Apollo 13 (April 11-17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third to land on the moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank...
by tjb | May 3, 2023 | Author's Posts
The Chauchat Machine Gun After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in France, without automatic weapons or field artillery, to relieve battle-worn English troopsl. The English generals wanted the...
