We are here in the official NASA Kennedy Space Center news center and have completed the first press conferences of our stay. We positioned the high definition camera in the conference room and made sure to set up early in order to reserve our spot. The technician running sound cables told us that there are...
This morning started off with a slope. Breakfast took an hour, and finding the right building for our press passes followed with another hour. But now, The Corsair staff is finally located at the NASA News Center. We have our spot which is seat number 32 out of 42. Even though we line up on...
HD camera? Check. Boom microphone? Check. Reporter’s notebook? Check. Journalistic objectivity? Check. Jubilant anticipation that will probably make me lose sleep? Check. In a dynamic journalism career that has had its ups and downs, I’ve had an opportunity to get close and personal with some intriguing and historic subjects, but none can match the Discovery...
Commander Alan Poindexter is a 1983 PJC graduate who will lead the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery. Poindexter earned his wings at NAS Pensacola in 1988. He is married to former Lisa A. Pfeiffer of Gulf Breeze and has two children. Selected by NASA in June 1998, He reported...
Paul Smith – The Corsair Conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck has quickly become a rising a star on the Fox News channel. And it’s not hard to see why: he’s a very skilled entertainer. He knows how to rile up a crowd with an act that’s equal parts carnival clown as well as dopey, red-faced...
Ansley Zecckine – The Corsair With all the recent natural disasters occurring all around us, some people begin to question what God has been doing, and others quickly proclaim these disasters as being nothing other than God’s judgment on sinful nations that deserved what they had coming. The time has come, however, that we should...
The Corsair’s mission is to offer the panhandle the ability to follow NASA’s fourth-to-last shuttle launch, with details about PJC’s alumni, now astronaut commander, Alan G. Poindexter. This will be the second time the Corsair has covered Poindexter in his shuttle flights to space. The shuttle missions are soon to pull to a close at...
As the four year anniversary of the day that Bristol walked into my life approaches, I am reflecting on the many things that have happened to us as a team. The relationship that Bristol and I have today was not immediate. It has been a bond that has grown stronger as the years have gone...
by Ansley Zecckine – The Corsair It all started on a Monday night. After a long day of school, I came home, and before going to bed, decided to exert myself on the living room treadmill. When the workout was over, a cute little migraine came along and decided to exert itself on me. I...
