Cav's Place

Accidentally pressed the enter key while writing this entry’s title and noticed that it saved it as a draft. At least it’s a good thing it didn’t try to publish it right away. Then again, this also allowed me to see that the bug that made it no longer automatically save every minute in previous […]

Unless you’ve been in a coma since Friday, I really shouldn’t have to tell you what happened. There’s so much information about it everywhere that I wouldn’t even know what to link to first if I were so inclined. There’s always Wikipedia for a starting point, of course, but if you’re missing any details I’d […]

Since anything I could say would be extremely inadequate and either way there would be all too much to say but all too little point in saying any of it right now, not to mention that discussing just one issue, or even just one event, would be terribly unfair towards the others, this seems to […]

In 1957 we were capable of putting the first artificial satellite in Earth orbit. In 1959 we managed the first lunar flyby and the first lunar landing, though it was not a soft landing. Then came 1961 and the first manned spaceflight. 1965 brought the first EVA. In 1966 we achieved the first soft landing […]

I seem to be writing a fair bit about space exploration lately, but there is good reason for that, as plenty of notable things are happening in that field. Some of them are worrying or even downright terrible, but more about that in the next post on the topic, assuming I’ll manage to stick to […]