- Working at KSC
- NASA Old Headquarters building on KSC destroyed.
- Flintknapping points
- On going writing projects
- Vampires of Kennedy Space Center and the O&C
- Demons of Kennedy Space Center
- Demons of Kennedy Space Center, corpus callosotomy
- Ghosts of Kennedy Space Center, End of Spiders
- Dreams of Kennedy Space Center, lovers and pyramids.
- Witches of Kennedy Space Center
- Cave Bears of Kennedy Space Center
- Aliens of Kennedy Space Center, uninvited guests
- Remembering Kennedy Space Center
Site Map
(Rambling haphazard index or table of contents)
SLS rocket!
I took this photo from the 16th floor of the VAB.
Look closely at the person on the test stand, (right side) to get a jaw dropping understanding of how big this beast is. Test roll out to the pad? It was in March 2022
Next Writing Project: Lake 33 Killing Relic.
A Weldon Springs Radiation story
My flintknapping addiction (creating stone tools & arrowheads)
Kim Ryba's collected stories of Horse rescue on Amazon
My space center science fiction story on Kindle "Woodpecker"
My next writing project: Lake 33 Killing Relic, a work of fiction and woe set in the Radiation contamination zones of St. Charles County Missouri.
Name subject to change
EPA Superfund Site Weldon Springs
Working at Kennedy Space Center a collection of photos
Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge FISHING PERMIT
Kayaking Canaveral National Seashore
Alligators of Kennedy Space Center and surrounding waters
Crayfish migrations on Kennedy Space Center
Troll River (Never know what the cast net will bring up)
Off limit areas...…….. Sort of
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Kayaking in the Fog, not just the normal foggy thought patterns but the white stuff
Pine Island, Indian River Lagoon & MR340 training
88 Hours of mud and heat. A race story
Why enter the MR340 River Race?
The Lagoon......
Mosquito Lagoon: Not quite so normal day of training
Mosquito Lagoon: kayaking to the last Space Shuttle Launch
Bit of history and old stuff....
History & creation of the Indian River Lagoon
Part two of the History of the lagoon: A Dummit Creek review
The Ais: Native Americans of Kennedy Space Center & the Indian River Lagoon
Spanish 1605 Exploration of the Space Coast and Indian River Lagoon
Ulumay Ais artifacts on Sykes Creek, Newfound Harbor area of Merritt Island.
Eye-witness account of the formation of the Indian River some seven thousand years ago.
A story of fiction
Chester Shoals House of Refuge (pre space program)
An Oddity found on the beach of KSC
Feeder creeks of the Indian River lagoon system...….
Rivers of Florida around the Space Center
Rivers and Creeks I DO NOT like
Night, we own it.....
Bioluminescence paddling disaster story
Please, the environment.....
Rescue the Indian River Lagoon -please
Brevard Indian River Lagoon Coalition
(help the lagoon https://helpthelagoon.org/)
Port Canaveral lock problem...(Royal Flush)
Contamination and Cancer Hot Spots south of Patrick Air Force Base
Please help the Brevard Zoo track terrapins on the IRL:
Fill out the
Diamondback Terrapin sighting form
Long time in the past: My job as a Pan Am Diver
Extensive history of the Eastern Test Range (not mine)
Missouri items: The MR340 kayak/canoe race down the Missouri River brings me back to Missouri.
When not on the river I get a brief glimpse of the slowly changing rural Midwest.
I am often surprised......Sometimes dismayed
Cindy & Kim's Great horse and mule stories at Every Cowgirl's Dream
A comprehensive list of damages by the City of O'Fallon
Weldon Springs Uranium Processing Plant
O'Day Park and the pipeline leak
Winter survey of the Missouri River for the MR340
EPA Inspector General and the disappointing failure
Lawsuit against the City of O'Fallon
And of course Lawsuit ends in victory by O'Fallon
Videos of flooding caused by the Park
Storm water failure by the City of O'Fallon
Malfeasance of the Missouri Department of Transportation & photos of a defective park entrance.
Letter to the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety about the O'Day Park intersection on Highway DD
O'Day Park & the sad/deadly irresponsibility of MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation)
or
"The equestrian disaster that could have been prevented"
“Billy” Busch to build a 20,000-square-foot microbrewery on Benne Road & the neighbors are not happy.
O'Day Park change in Water shed & increase of erosion
O'Day Park Concerts of opposition
O'Day Park and flooding of adjoining horse pastures
Plight of the Indiana Bat and the new housing development on the west side of the O'Day Creek
Presentation to the O’Fallon, Planning and Zoning Committee in opposition to paving the 200 acres
Letter sent to Channel 2 News in opposition to the clear cutting of 200 acres.
Mission Sunflower (Facebook Group) Are you brave enough to see how much radioactive waste is killing people in eastern Missouri ?
Space Center stuff:
YouTube video of the SpaceX rocket being rolled to the KSC visitor center!!!!!!!
YouTube video with the NASA Administrator: BACK TO THE MOON IN FIVE YEARS (Excitement on KSC)
"Almost" all the Space X landings in order (You Tube just for fun!)
The 300' ML Mobile Launch Tower move to the beach launch pa
ML Mobile Launch Tower move from the Launch Pad to the VAB
NASA Guidelines for Dealing with the Media
Kennedy Space Center Mysteries?
An odd marker discovered (re-discovered) on KSC
Mystery hand print on Mosquito Lagoon
Sand dune restoration and an odd item under the sand
Art of the Space Center Page Two!
Art of the Space Center Page Three!
What happed to page 4?
Fifth page of Space Center Art
Vacation kayak paddle trip to the San Juan Islands
Paintball along the Space Coast
Favorite links:
Best link so far to space center area kayak outfitters (supporting local business)
Marine Resources Council (Save the Indian River Lagoon)
Be Florida Now Saving the lagoon one yard at a time
Paddle Florida (awesome)
Don's Yackman.com kayaking web site & his excellent book of kayaking stories "The idling bulldozer and other kayaking stories"
MR340 kayak canoe race (Forums)
Floating Dreams (Video/drone footage of the MR340 Race)
WaterTribe (Think your tough enough?)
Suwannee River 230 Canoe and Kayak Race. (Endurance race) RodPriceAdventure.com. (Think your tough enough?)
Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge
Tickets to see Space Shuttle Atlantis at the KSC visitors center
Spot the International Space Station
Kayakfari Such a cool site!
Pterosaur Heresies (Just a cool site)
Cindy & Kim's Great horse and mule stories at Every Cowgirl's Dream
Web cam on the Missouri River for the daily fix of river conditions:
Consider "Pre arranged" Parking spots for Launch Viewing: the Viewber Club
Brevard County Events (Space Coast)
MR340 Required and suggested equipment
MR340 Race Mistake #1 Paddling too Fast
2019 MR340 Kayak race delayed because of historic flooding
Quality Kayak Expeditions of the Space Coast
My other website: Pet Turkeys (navigates away from this page)
Excerpts from my book
"Freedom's Quest"
Other (sci-fi) tails of the Space Center:
Vampires of Kennedy Space Center
Demons of Kennedy Space Center
Demons of Kennedy Space Center, corpus callosotomy
Ghosts of Kennedy Space Center
Dreams of Kennedy Space Center
Aliens of Kennedy Space Center
Director of Kennedy Space Center
Hitchhikers of Kennedy Space Center
Witches of Kennedy Space Center
Cave Bears of Kennedy Space Center
Chimeras of Kennedy Space Center
Gods of Kennedy Space Center and the Nile
Dinosaurs of Kennedy Space Center
Kayakers of Kennedy Space Center
Remembering Kennedy Space Center
Shadows of Kennedy Space Center
Starman of Kennedy Space Center
Gate Jumpers of Kennedy Space Center
Allies of Kennedy Space Center (Pt 2 of Gate Jumpers
Savants of Kennedy Space Center
Gene Splicers of Kennedy Space Center
State Security of Kennedy Space Center
Rescuers of Kennedy Space Center
Ferals of Kennedy Space Center
Return Home from Site Map page
For pet lovers around the globe, "It's a Matter of Luck" is a collection of heart warming stories of horse rescues from the slaughterhouse.
Available on Amazon:
It's a Matter of Luck: Inspirational, Heartfelt Stories of Horses Given a Second Chance.
by Kim Ryba & Lina T. Lindgren
Warning: This book may cause your eyes to water in a good way. (speaking from experience after reading it)
Please give Kim and Lina a heartfelt review on Amazon!
Author Bruce Ryba at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B & Artemis 1. "We are going to the Moon!"
Author's discussion (that's me) on You Tube of a book review on Amazon
For the video versions of information, please check out my YouTube Channel (Turkeys, Flintknapping, dive stories etc.)
My fictional series/stories on Florida history:
Freedoms Quest (book one)
Struggle for the northern frontier and other lost tales of old Florida.
Available on Amazon
Desperate times call for bold action.
In a desperate move to retain Florida and protect the treasure-laden galleons on their dangerous return journey to Europe, the King of Spain issues a royal decree offering refuge to all English slaves who escape Florida and pick up a musket to defend the coquina walls of Saint Augustine.
In another bold gamble, the King offers refuge to the dissatisfied Indian nations of the southeast who will take up arms against the English.
Clans, traumatized by war and disease, cross the Spanish Frontier to settle the cattle-rich land and burned missions of Florida.
Follow the descendants of the conquistador Louis Castillo in remote Spanish Florida, a wild and swept by diseases, hurricanes, and northern invasions.
Book Two: Available on Amazon!