<![CDATA[Stories by Herb Baker on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@herb.h.baker?source=rss-291965ab0730------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*_Q2mJryjwASQmZVEgi5Ulg.jpeg Stories by Herb Baker on Medium https://medium.com/@herb.h.baker?source=rss-291965ab0730------2 Medium Sun, 15 Nov 2026 14:14:16 GMT <![CDATA[Tampons, Underwear, & Makeup in Space]]>

NASA astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on Space Shuttle flight STS-7 in June 1983. She had been one of 35 new…

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A strange episode occurred on Shuttle mission STS-51-B in early 1985. For obvious reasons, there has been little reporting on the subject…

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The Skylab 3 crew splashed down about 230 miles southwest of San Diego on September 25, 1973. Their 59 days in orbit were more than twice…

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A short five months after the Apollo Program ended, NASA launched Skylab 1 on May 14, 1973. The vehicle was seriously damaged during…

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Apollo 16 flew to the Moon and back in April 1972. The crew consisted of Commander John Young, Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly, and…

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The first crewed flight of the Apollo program was Apollo 7, which launched on October 11, 1968, and splashed down in the North Atlantic…

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]]> https://medium.com/@herb.h.baker/why-the-apollo-7-crew-never-got-to-fly-in-space-again-aa22e2a020b4?source=rss-291965ab0730------2 https://medium.com/p/aa22e2a020b4 Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:52:45 GMT 2024-10-26T17:38:02.728Z <![CDATA[Why I Always Listen to My Inner Voice When it Tells Me “Just Do It!”]]>

It was dark and raining that October morning when my alarm woke me up around 6 AM. The Association of Space Explorers (ASE), an…

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American Writer John Steinbeck, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, loved dogs, but he was not happy after his dog, Toby, who had…

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I was using Microsoft Word when I started writing the manuscript for my first book. I had an outline with notes about many of the subjects…

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]]> https://medium.com/@herb.h.baker/can-you-imagine-writing-a-book-with-a-typewriter-0e4277b11f9c?source=rss-291965ab0730------2 https://medium.com/p/0e4277b11f9c Fri, 31 May 2024 13:58:12 GMT 2024-05-31T13:58:12.364Z <![CDATA[How I Solved My Insomnia Problem]]>

I seem to have finally found the right formula for falling asleep relatively quickly and being able to sleep for 3 to 4 hours at a time…

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