February 28th, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes
During the past week, a couple of promising new blogs were launched by some prominent Milwaukeans.
Meg McKenna, co-founder of the successful MilwaukeeMoms.com, has started City on the Lake. McKenna has been a resident of both Chicagoland (she grew up in the Chicago suburbs) and Greater Milwaukee, and her new blog covers regional interests that involve both cities, as well as the cities’ complmentary culture and play.
Also this week, Koss Corporation CEO Michael J. Koss started The Sound of Koss. The blog will tell music lovers about what’s happening at Koss and with Koss Stereophones. Michael Koss has some incredible knowledge of — and experience with — audio technology, which give this blog great potential.
I suspect we’ll be reading some interesting things in both blogs — check them out.
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February 21st, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes
Earlier this week I learned from the NASA website that Konrad Dannenberg died on Monday at the age of 96. Dannenberg was a key member of Wernher von Braun’s original engineering team that developed the hardware and processes which enabled humans to reach the moon.
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Kevin meets rocket pioneer
Konrad Dannenberg on December 31, 2002. |
While attending the adult version of Space Camp in Huntsville in late 2002 and early 2003, I had the pleasure of meeting Dannenberg and talking with him about his experiences. We spoke at length about his work on various launch systems for NASA, including the Redstone — which lifted the first American astronauts into space — and the Saturn V which carried the first humans to the moon. Dannenberg told me how, at the request of Wernher von Braun, he started and managed the development of the Saturn V (which still holds the title of “largest rocket ever built”). Read the rest of this entry »
Categories: Science, Space Exploration, Technology, The Future | Tags: aviation history, Foo Fighters, Konrad Dannenberg, NASA, Operation Paperclip, Redstone, Saturn V, UFOs
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