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“It seems like a dangerous job.” That’s what someone said to me once when I was talking about NASA and astronauts. My response to her was: “Well, they do leave the Earth.”
25 years ago I was in 4th grade watching in awe the first teacher heading into space. Watching the [...]
Continue Reading →Article out today that Google is offering a prize of $20 million to the first privately funded team that can land a rover on the moon, have it travel on the surface for 500 meters or more, send back data, photos and video, and do it all by December 31, 2012. Another requirement [...]
Continue Reading →In the late hours of Monday night, NASA sent Space Shuttle Endeavor towards the International Space Station.
Yes, I stayed up and watched the launch. In fact, I watched the 2 hours leading up to the launch that included the motions, countdown sequence, interviews, and checks. There is [...]
Continue Reading →Watching the lunar eclipse was pretty amazing and made me think again on how small we are in this universe. We debated on waking up our 4 year old to watch, but to me it would be like asking him to sit still for 4 hours and watch paint dry. I’m not sure he could [...]
Continue Reading →This is cool video of the missile being launched and hitting the defunct spy satellite. It feels like watching a movie and stopping to think how far we have come in 10 years is quite amazing.
I haven’t bothered looking, but I’m sure there are plenty of conspiracy theories floating around out there [...]
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