Blake Stilwell
Associate Editor at Military.com
@Militarydotcom's most cromulent writer and Ohio's 25,796th favorite son. Seen on other websites and magazines but somehow never by my own parents.
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1 week ago |
athlonoutdoors.com | Blake Stilwell
Imagine being shipwrecked in the Age of Sail. There’s no global positioning system. There’s no radio distress call. Worst of all, so many voyages were expected to take months or years, so it would take forever for anyone to notice something was amiss. For sailors set adrift across miles of ocean or marooned as castaways on a deserted island, hunger and thirst were the most pressing obstacles to survival.
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wearethemighty.com | Blake Stilwell
The Space Race might have begun in the middle of the 20th century, but that doesn’t mean humans never thought about the moon – or how to get there. Unfortunately, scientists understood so little about the space outside the Earth, other planets, or even flying heavier-than-air airplanes that clouds were out of reach, let alone the moon.
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yahoo.com | Blake Stilwell
The Space Race might have begun in the middle of the 20th century, but that doesn’t mean humans never thought about the moon – or how to get there. Unfortunately, scientists understood so little about the space outside the Earth, other planets, or even flying heavier-than-air airplanes that clouds were out of reach, let alone the moon.
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yahoo.com | Blake Stilwell
Blake StilwellMon, April 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM UTC4 min readThere’s nothing dumber than a technicality, especially when people are putting their lives on the line to do something incredible. If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena,” it’s Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin and the naysayers who believe he wasn’t the first human to break the surly bonds of Earth.
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wearethemighty.com | Blake Stilwell
On Dec. 10, 1954, John Stapp, a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and researcher, hopped into an experimental decelerator sled. It would be his last ride in the sled, testing the limits of gravitational forces on the human body as it accelerates and decelerates. He reached a speed of 632 miles per hour that day, experiencing 46.2 g. It was then the most ever experienced by a human and it made Col.
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