A story first
A square peg
The landing was already lost. The air in the lifeboat was becoming unbreathable. The next move was a procedure.
Apollo 13 · procedure · a lost landing
Theme
Begin again
What is the next possible thing after the plan breaks?
Beginning again does not necessarily mean returning to the original plan.
- The experiment that found nothingCleveland · ether wind · a published nothing
- The uninvited guestSt. Mary’s · chance · a contaminated plate
- Seven treesNairobi · seven trees · 1977
- They hugged the treesReni forest · 1974 · Chipko
- The housewives of NiagaraLove Canal · 1978 · a kitchen table becoming a record
- The hole they did not expectHalley Bay · 1985 · a measurement kept
- The pulse that was not interferenceCambridge · 1967 · a chart that was not noise
- The grid she leftBrooklyn · 1948 · a table of triplets
- The solar batteryMurray Hill · 1954 · a made current
- The line that movedHighland Park · 7 October 1913 · a first article
- LOBoelter Hall · 29 October 1969 · two letters
- Four at the counterGreensboro · 1 February 1960 · four stools
- The last caseMerca · 1977 · a cook, then none
- The grants refusedPhiladelphia · 1995 · a demotion, a molecule still inflammatory
- The curveMauna Loa · 29 March 1958 · a first day