Joe Pappalardo

Texas

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Author of "Sunflowers," "Spaceport Earth," "Inferno," "Red Sky Morning" and "Four Against the West." Magazine writer. Spirit 544. Ghost for hire.

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Articles

CoAdvantage and PrimePay Announce Merger

Mar 7, 2025 | ffnews.com | Dominic Sow |Joe Pappalardo

Aquiline, a private investment firm specializing in financial services and technology, announces a strategic merger between two of its portfolio companies: CoAdvantage, a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that provides a comprehensive suite of bundled, fully outsourced human resources services, insurance, and benefits offerings to small- and mid-sized businesses, and PrimePay, a payroll and human resources software business that helps small- and mid-sized businesses and franchises...
Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream

Feb 27, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Joe Pappalardo |Jason Heid

On the surface, Seiichi Nagihara’s mood seems placid, yet there’s tension beneath the answers the Texas Tech professor offers about the fate of his invention. The device now sits aboard a lander called Blue Ghost, circling the moon, about 244,190 miles from Nagihara’s Lubbock office.
Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream

Feb 27, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Joe Pappalardo |Jason Heid

On the surface, Seiichi Nagihara’s mood seems placid, yet there’s tension beneath the answers the Texas Tech professor offers about the fate of his invention. The device now sits aboard a lander called Blue Ghost, circling the moon, about 244,190 miles from Nagihara’s Lubbock office.
Corpus Christi’s First Water-Desalination Plant Could Create “Dead Zones”

Dec 12, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Joe Pappalardo

The dark hump of a bottlenose dolphin’s back cuts through the surface of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, appearing briefly alongside a docked, Hong Kong–registered bulk-cargo vessel. This industrial canal is an unlikely haven for wildlife, but dolphins are attracted by its cool waters and abundant mullet and appear so regularly that local captains take tour boats to see them.
Books: "Four Against The West" By Joe Pappalardo

Nov 26, 2024 | brooklyndigest.org | Joe Pappalardo |Jason Schott

Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation - and Created a Legend By Joe Pappalardo St. Martin's Press; 336 pages, plus one 8-page B&W photo section; hardcover, $32.00; eBook, $14.99; available today, Tuesday, November 26th Joe Pappalardo is the author of the critically acclaimed books Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Campaign in Aviation History, Sunflowers: The Secret History, Red Sky Morning, and Spaceport Earth:...
FOUR AGAINST THE WEST

Nov 26, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Joe Pappalardo |David Grann |Howard Zinn

A bit overcooked, but of interest to readers of Western Americana. Parallel lives of Roy Bean, the self-styled “law west of the Pecos,” and his three very different brothers. Born in Kentucky, the Bean brothers—James, Samuel, Joshua, and Roy—were living emblems of westward expansion. All possessed, to varying degrees, something of the rule-evading, even lawless ethos of the Anglo conquest, from outright murder to the mere gaming of the system.
Four Against the West by Joe Pappalardo

Sep 21, 2024 | shakespeareandcompany.com | Joe Pappalardo

A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers-and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes.
Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation-and Created a Legend|Hardcover

Feb 1, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Joe Pappalardo

A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers―and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes.
Historic moon lander malfunctions after launch—but NASA isn’t panicked (yet) - NetWorthyNews

Jan 9, 2024 | networthynews.com | Joe Pappalardo

ByJoe PappalardoAfter an effective 2:18 a.m. ET launch from Florida today, a lunar lander developed and run by the area business Astrobotic suffered an engine breakdown and stopped working to properly place its photovoltaic panels towards the sun. Controllers remedied the orientation of the spacecraft, however then validated it had a “crucial loss of propellant,” threatening the craft’s objective to the moon.
O segundo lançamento do mega foguete da SpaceX termina com uma explosão. O que acontecerá agora?

Nov 22, 2023 | flipboard.com | Joe Pappalardo