Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

How do I tell my grown-ass children about the life and times of JFK? How I was nine when he was elected and 13 when he was assassinated? Tha...

California-based filmmaker Steven Barber wants to put up a memorial to the Apollo 11 astronauts. He wants to place it in Wyoming because it...

Fate had other ideas. We couldn’t sell our house in a down market as hundreds of other Apollo pioneers were trying to do. My father reported...

Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo Program. – From the end credits of Richard Linklater’s Netflix film “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Child...

As I move on to the second season of “For All Mankind” on Apple-Plus, I keep asking the same question: What happened to us? By us, I mean U....

I like to think that I was a witness to history during Moon Landing Week in July 1969. I witnessed the launch from the beach the morning o...

View from The Castle, looking west toward Laramie Peak. The family and I drove to Guernsey State Park for Mother's Day. This is only...

Imagine that humankind gives up its dreams of space travel to farm corn in Kansas full-time. That’s the kind of boring future imagined ...

You can't spell "progressive" without "progress." That's a fact. But you can be a political progressive withou...

Throw in a few clumps of sage and a tumblin' tumbleweed and this might look like Wyoming's Red Desert. But this is Rocknest on Mar...

After reading about “the pink moon” on Facebook for several days, my daughter Annie and I decided to take a look for ourselves. Each full ...

Milford Wayne Donaldson, California’s state historic preservation officer, will be a featured speaker at the Convergence Wyoming 2011 in Co...

Cool shot by my sister Mary Powell of today's Shuttle launch

Insignia for the first shuttle launch We were just outside of Hogtown when the first Shuttle went up. Other cars joined us along the side...

Is it possible that Darth Vader is a force for good in the universe? We often rely on arts and music and creativity to lift our spirits d...

At an April 8 gathering in D.C., "Arts or Sciences?" was the topic. We need both, of course Peter Cunningham, Assistant Secreta...

My father's work with the U.S. space program ended about the same time as Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. Thousand...

Lots of newspaper articles and TV coverage marking the 40th anniversary of the U.S. moon landing. All of them seem to ask the same question:...