We are less than an hour from the launch of SpaceX, the rocket that will take two astronauts to the Space Station. Their only concern is the weather, but one of the astronauts just said this: Figure 1. Astronauts telling us that the sky just cleared up right above...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A. NASA/Bill Ingalls Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies On May 27, two American...
The Pale Blue Dot Do you remember the Pale Blue Dot Photo? It is a NASA photo of earth shown as a tiny speck in space. It was taken in 1990 by the Voyager I space probe 3.7 billion miles from earth. Carl Sagan, the scientist, suggested NASA engineers turn Voyager...
NASA's STS-135 mission of the Space Shuttle lifted off its pad in Florida successfully, today, July 8, 2011. More than a million people were there to witness the liftoff. Here is a video I made of the launch and commentary.
NASA's STS-135 mission of the Space Shuttle lifted off its pad in Florida successfully, today, July 8, 2011. More than a million people were there to witness the liftoff. Here is a video I made of the launch and commentary.
Four astronauts will board the Space Shuttle tomorrow morning for the last ride on America's Space Shuttle program. More than one million people will view the launch of STS-135 at the NASA Kennedy Center, and millions more on the Web and TV. You follow the mission...
