I’d like to invite all of you who are going to Comicpalooza to come to our panels.   “So you want to be a Star Ship Captain” is at 1300 and “Saving Our Ships” panel at 1330 on Saturday. The first one will be about STARFLEET International and our ship the USS ZAVALA and the second panel will be about the Battleship Texas and will feature several members of the Battleship Texas Foundation and we will be talking about the restoration and what is being done to save the last Dreadnought. Come by our table for the USS ZAVALA (booth 638) for more information.

Apparently, in 50 years, we should be making first contact with the Vulcans.

I will be taking the van to the Texas Lotto event in Dallas in March.   Any one who would like a ride up just needs to contact me at ops@usszavala.org.

Lt. John Gilfillan Chief of Operations USS ZAVALA

That time the Russians designed a hovercraft so insane we had no clue what the hell it was.

I found this on io9 today.  This is a kind of hovercraft.  It looks like something like a sea plane that never gets far off the ground.

This group came from Louisiana to school everyone on how to play Artemis.

Today’s Google Doodle is a beautiful tribute to Nicolaus Copernicus’ rendition of planetary motion.

Google.

I was in class. I was taking a class in electronics repair and one of the students I knew came in and said the shuttle blew up. I honestly thought he was joking at the time. In fact I was quite angry at him for that. Then I found out the truth and was really thrown for a loop. I grew up in the Clear Lake area and my father had worked for NASA for many many years. He knew some of the astronauts who were aboard the Challenger. It was a really terrible time for all of us here.

It was on this day in 1995 that we saw the premiere of  Star Trek: Voyager.

It had to be one of my favorites of the various Star Trek franchises.  I have to admit that I really admired Captain Janeway.  It’s hard to hold up being a girl in a all boys club like all those other Starship captains.  You go grrl!