Tag: family

Sometimes you run across a family photo that makes you wish you knew your parents when they were young. This is also one of the only two photos I have of my grandfather.

They’re sitting in a hotrod my father build from scratch in 1954.

One annoying thing about scanning old photos, is that they’re never square to the paper. Here I chose to have the image square even though the paper edges would be crooked. I also left the ragged edge because it suits the nature of the photo.

A little known fact about me is: my father built spaceships.

Building spaceships takes a lot more than what’s shown in the movies and news. Today media focuses on the strong personalities that drive a space program. This is new.

In the recent past, before the NASA resurgence we’re seeing today. Before the ISS, even. Before the private investment in spaceflight we have. There was the Space Shuttle.