Tied Up Today

Today's tie was chosen by my nibling Nolan Huizenga for his birthday!. He said the Saturn rocket helps "celebrate the Artemis 2 mis...

 On 27 October 1961, NASA launched the first test flight for the Saturn rocket, which was to become the basic design for all of the launch ...

On this date in 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. His journey lasted 15 minutes. His "Freedom 7" capsule was ...

Today's Saturn Rocket tie celebrates the anniversaries of the first manned space flight (Yuri Gagarin, USSR, 1961) and the first launch ...

Sixty years ago today, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a...

59 years ago today, Alan Shepard achieved distinction as the first American in space! The mission was named Mercury - Redstone 3 and the sp...

Happy Birthday to my (eldest) nephew and space exploration enthusiast Nolan Huizenga! My tie features the Saturn rocket, which was the launc...

I'm wearing my Saturn rocket tie to mark the anniversaries on this date in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, and i...

Today's Saturn Rocket celebrates the anniversaries of the first manned space flight (Yuri Gagarin, USSR, 1961) and the first launch of a...

54 years ago today, NASA launched its first Saturn rocket, which would become the standard launch vehicle for the Apollo moon exploration se...

First American in space (Alan Shepard), 5 May 1961.

52 years ago, October 27, 1961, the first Saturn I rocket was launched. It was the first in the Saturn series, used for all of the Apollo mi...

Fifty-two years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American to go into "space," in the "Freedom 7" capsule. In 197...

Tomorrow is my oldest nephew C. Nolan Huizenga's 44th birthday. He likes this tie because it matches his obsession with all things space...

Today marks 50 years since the first human space flight into orbit (Yuri Gagarin, 1961, USSR) and 30 years since the first launch of the spa...

The Saturn rocket, made famous by the Apollo missions that "put man on the Moon" in 1969, was first launched on October 27, 1961.

In 1969, on July 20, Neil Armstrong took the first human steps on the surface of the moon. I was in Canada, probably somewhere near Toronto,...

Some events connected to August 3: 1492: Christopher Columbus sails from Spain, headed for the "Indies"; on the same day, all Jews...

This marks the anniversary of the first launch of a Saturn rocket, as the space mission Apollo I, in 1961.

Blasting off for a new semester at EKU . . . (Repeating a tie from May 5)