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Yay, NASA!!! NASA, Penn State give New Year’s gift of space images A large new collection of space photos taken at wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye and blocked by Earth’s atmosphere has been released as a New Year’s gift to the people of Earth by NASA and Penn State. The images were [...] Can’t tell if the CA flag’s upside-down or not, but a few shots of Endeavour as it flew through our Valley location. Painfully obvious which camera’s mine (upon further inspection, not as painful, but still obvious who still owns a dumb-phone). Update: Texacalirose wanted to show off her superior photo firepower. What [...] The Space Shuttle lands in Houston to rub in celebrate the fact that the city that housed Mission Control for every shuttle flight gets nothing. Great job, ya’ doofus. You can fly a 747 with a Space Shuttle on its back but you can’t get the flag right side up. AWESOME. /s Speaking of [...] Instapundit links to this fascinating article from The Atlantic Monthly on the now forgotten opposition to the Apollo program during the 1960s. Today, we recall the speech John F. Kennedy made 50 years ago as the beginning of a glorious and inexorable process in which the nation united behind the goal of a manned [...] Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon and a bona fide hero has died. Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday on Aug. 5. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon [...] So this is where they are spending all their money…wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, yeah. But wait there’s more… Share on Facebook Share on Facebook America’s first female astronaut — Dr. Sally Ride — died today after succumbing to pancreatic cancer. “Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, commitment, and love. Her integrity was absolute; her spirit was immeasurable; her approach to life was fearless,” read a statement on the Sally Ride Science [...] (click for full size) For the old folks, this is too funny. Via, Bring The Heat… Share on Facebook WTF?!? As they said over at Ace of Spades, did someone have a bet on how complicated they could make this thing? Good luck to NASA and Rover Curiosity. Share on Facebook Coolness…from Space.Com When NASA’s mighty Saturn V rocket launched the historic Apollo 11 mission to land the first men on the moon in 1969, the five powerful engines that powered the booster’s first stage dropped into the Atlantic Ocean and were lost forever. Lost, that is, until now. A private expedition financed by Amazon.com [...] From the Goddard Space Flight Center: From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn’t always look like this. Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon’s history. Learn more in [...] V’ger is heading out into the Milky Way to wait for Decker and that bald chick. The spacecraft is close to leaving the Solar System and into the uncharted territory of the Milky Way after more than three decades in space. Voyager 1 was launched with its twin, Voyager 2, by the US National [...] What happens when you die in space? Apparently your eyes don’t bug out. From yesterday’s The New York Times Science page: In the near-vacuum of space, death would most likely occur within a couple of minutes, but consciousness would be lost in about 15 seconds as oxygen failed to reach the brain, NASA scientists [...] Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020, http://fxn.ws/qUCP4n – Sent via the FOX News Android App. This is probably overblown… or yet another bloviation from a drunk Russian bureaucrat… but he did say it. Share on Facebook …the Eagle will go elsewhere you can pound sand. That’s basically what NASA and the committee for selecting where the retired Shuttle Orbiters will go told Houston and the Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center. The place where the astronauts train and the missions are controlled from, that already has a display that includes moon rocks, an [...] In 1986 we lost the Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven crewmembers. Share on Facebook Saturn’s moon Rhea is offset from the larger moon Titan — photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Click here for the top 10 14 Astronomy photos from Discover’s Bad Astronomy Blog. Share on Facebook Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar System. The spacecraft was launched in 1977 and has since snapped images of Earth and other planets in the solar system and provided NASA with crucial information as it makes its long journey into outer space. NASA researchers think Voyager 1 will leave the solar system and [...] |
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