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// May 23rd, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA
So cool that this launch went off without a hitch — it’s a bit of changing of the guards in spaceflight. The private sector will start to be part of spaceflight.
Yesterday’s early morning launch was a first step in the private sector resupplying the ISS.
// May 14th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA
Seems the monstrous building I got to briefly wander around in back in September of 2009 while at the Kennedy Space Center is getting a refurb — any of which for this sizeable building is going to be well, a sizeable undertaking.
Refurbishment on Grand Scale for Iconic Vehicle Assembly Building
// April 18th, 2012 // No Comments » // Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Space Stuff & NASA
The now retired space shuttle orbiters are heading to their exhibits. Yesterday, Washington DC received its orbiter — the Discovery. CNN did a nice piece with viewers adding media to the story.
Amanda also said one of our friends living up in D.C. got an aerial view of the oribter hitching its ride to our nation’s capital on top of the NASA modified 747. I’ll post that to Keefer Madness once I get to see it.
// April 12th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA
Ah, the space shuttle Endeavour — which will always hold a special place in my heart after seeing it up close and personally last year.
I love the set of vibrant pictures of the Endeavour’s cockpit, lit up for the last time before it hitches a ride to the West coast and becomes an exhibit.
They’re so amazing, and it’s very overwhelming to see all the displays, controls, switches, etc. Such a complex machine. I love the pictures on the middeck too with all the signatures of everyone involved in the shuttle program.
It’s still sad, almost a year later, seeing the fleet decommissioned without a successor coming anytime soon.
// March 19th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA, Video
Even with the shuttle being retired for over a half a year, we’re still getting cool media.
Check the video after the jump for an audio and video journey of one of the solid rocket boosters launches, gets separated from the shuttle orbiter, and then descends and parachutes into the ocean.
It’s a compilation of footage from STS-117 (Atlantis) and STS-127 (Endeavour). Very cool.
// March 13th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA
The NASA shuttle fleet’s Endeavour will always have a special place in my heart, after getting to see it up close and personal in the VAB at the Kennedy Space Center three months after its final flight.
Space Flight now does a great writeup on the last of the shuttles being processed for museum duty — this one destined for Los Angeles.
// March 10th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA, Video
Nice little video showing the permanent powering down of two of the three remaining shuttles (Atlantis and Discovery) from back in December.
Later this year, they’ll be in their new display homes.
// March 9th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA, Video
In a time when the U.S. doesn’t have a way to get humans in space and the budget to reinstate that is dwindling, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s remarks in front of the Senate are appreciated and sobering.
// March 7th, 2012 // No Comments » // Internet / Web, Space Stuff & NASA
I’m proud to have been part of that initial group of NASA’s Twitter Tweetups. I was even prouder to see the PR today that they’re expanding and broadening their social programs under a new name:
// February 20th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA
We just passed the 50th Anniversary (wow!) of the Mercury orbital flight by astronaut John Glenn, hence why you’ve been seeing John Glenn around much these past few days. The photos in the video below give a lot of perspective on the event a half a century ago.
Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson made a good point earlier today on Twitter. America was able to send a man into space 50 years ago, but can’t currently do that feat today.
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