Chris Stone

3 weeks ago | timesofsandiego.com | Ken Stone |Chris Stone

Twice this year, Starship rockets built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have blown up. A version of that biggest-ever booster is slated to launch the manned Orion spacecraft to the moon in the Artemis III and IV missions. Is NASA worried? Not according to a La Mesa-born astronaut and the NASA official in charge of last week’s testing of Orion capsule recovery off San Diego.

4 weeks ago | timesofsandiego.com | Chris Stone

Frank Hermansen knows baseball. After all, as a pitcher for the Birmingham Barons a line drive knocked him out cold, and he woke up in a hospital with his jaw wired shut. On Thursday, Hermansen and his wife, Eileen, had no problem expressing their love of the game and the San Diego Padres on Opening Day 2025. They were among more than 45,500 fans who streamed into the downtown stadium to watch the home team beat the Atlanta Braves 7-4.

Nov 17, 2024 | timesofsandiego.com | Chris Stone

Dressed in pink, participants in the annual Susan Komen 3-Day walk for breast cancer research smiled and waved this weekend as they passed San Diego landmarks. But moods changed when asked why they took part. Lips began to quiver and voices crack. It’s all so emotional. Many of the nearly 2,000 walkers had photos and names of loved ones pinned to their backs. They carry the hurt on their trek. They left Friday morning from the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Nov 16, 2024 | timesofsandiego.com | Chris Stone

King Tides estimated at 7 1/2 feet brought excitement and wonder Saturday morning to La Jolla Cove visitors. But while people lined sidewalks hearing and feeling the power of the water pounding the shore, the tide created an extra challenge for some regular swimmers of the La Jolla Cove Swim Club. Just getting off the beach. First, they had to deal with the surf slamming into the staircase down to the sand, and then fight Mother Nature to plunge into the sea. No such problems for a pod of seals.

Nov 11, 2024 | timesofsandiego.com | Chris Stone

D-Day veteran Clayton B. Baum seeved as a grand marshal of Monday’s Veterans Day Parade in San Diego. But he will tell the honor isn’t for him. “I’m representing — I am honored to do so – the people who served in Normandy and those that passed away and are buried in a very sacred ground in France,” said Baum, 101. “This is not about me. This is about them.”And Baum knows about loss. One of his sons, Sgt. Douglas Baum, was killed in Vietnam in 1967.