If you see a flashing light while looking at the moon, it might not be an optical illusion but an meteoroid impact; from 100 Explosions on the Moon (NASA): Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon…
The Phoenix Mars Lander has landed. Perfect landing. Congrats to the Phoenix Lander team… Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north…
Very neat… Europe’s ATV first automated docking. 3 April 2008 ESA PR 20-2008. ATV Jules Verne, the European Space Agency’s first resupply and reboost vehicle, has successfully performed a fully automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS). This docking marks the beginning…
I found two very cool videos (YouTube) of STS-123 night launch. Night launches are the coolest, with literally night becoming day. The two videos are from different point of views and distances of/from the launch pad. The cracking sound from the solid rocket…
By coincidence today I saw the Space Shuttle and Station flying just over, at 12 o’clock. I immediately recognized then as potentially the Shuttle and Station; because of the inclination, they were as bright as I can remember seeing them, for a long…
I found this article about an iPod that was spotted on the Space Shuttle… I wonder if the iPod is experiencing single-bit soft errors. In space, unless the electronic equipment such as computers (or iPods!) is “radiation hardened”, using techniques such as single…
An interesting week on space-related activities… STS-123 The Space Shuttle STS-123 mission launched into its 16 day mission; and busy is the crew delivering pieces for the International Space Station (ISS). This is the the 25th shuttle mission to the ISS. It is…
Just noticed that Hoot Gibson, the former astronaut who gave me my Silver Snoopy Award many years ago is now Chief Pilot at Benson Space Company, one of the new private space companies in the space race (space tourism). The photo below is…
I found this neat short video titled
Three days ago marked 436 years since the birth of Johannes Kepler. Born in Germany on December 27, 1571, Kepler was the first human being who was able to put together all the observations from others and himself, and truly see and understand,…
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