As some of you might be aware, the WIRED website underwent some cleanup and upgrades a couple of weeks ago. No sooner than those fixes started to take effect and all us bloggers started feeling our way around a new blogging interface, we got slammed with a malware attack. I’m a simple historian, so I don’t begin to understand all the technical jiggery-pokery. Suffice it to say, it was not a happy time.
Now, however, we’re back, thanks to the unyielding resolve and tireless efforts of the WIRED tech crew. Huzzah, huzzah, brave tech-minded gentlemen and ladies!
I didn’t spend the downtime napping. Assuming that this brief note successfully posts to Beyond Apollo – that is, that I’ve used the new security and blogger interfaces correctly – I plan to complete a really nifty visual essay in the next couple of days. The image at the top of this post – painted by a Boeing artist for NASA – will be part of it.
And, before I forget, Happy Yuri’s Night to one and all. Get out under the stars tonight, have a look at the gibbous moon and brilliant glowing Mars, and spare a thought for Vostok 1 and its brave occupant Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human in orbit 53 years ago today.
So, now it’s time to push the button and see what happens. In three, two, one. . .
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