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Tag Archives: NASA
Weightless Water Wringing
This is very cool.
I may have to get out my Yaesu radio later on and see if I can pick up the ISS during a fly over.
Technorati Tags: ISS, NASA, Space Station
17 April 1970 – Odyssey returns to Earth
On this day 43 years ago, the Command Module Odyssey splashed down.
Apollo XIII
I remember – as if it were yesterday – being glued to the TV watching the coverage of this glorious disaster. It was inspiring.
But we don’t have a … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Apollo 13, Apollo XIII, NASA, POTUS, Pres. Obama
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JUST TOO COOL: Of Niobids and Rovers
This is simply too cool.
Every once in a while, we find something from antiquity that we knew about but thought lost.
Check this out, from Gazzetta del Sud. Dorothy King’s PhDiva has a lot of photos. With a biretta tip to rougeclassicism. … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Curiosity, Mars Rover, NASA, Niobe, Ovid
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Cool spacey stuff: bouncing on Titan and Martian carwashes
First, The Huygens probe has landed on Saturn’s moon, Titan.
There is a description and animation of how it hit the surface and then bounced, slid and wobbled into its resting position. HERE. Huygens was ferried to Titan by the Cassini … Continue reading
Curiosity’s curious visual odometry system
Here is something for your Just Too Cool file. This got my attention not only because it deals with Curiosity, but also because of my budding interest in ham radio.
The newest Mars Rover, Curiosity, is tagging Mars… with Morse Code.
Curiosity … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars, Mars Rover, NASA
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Blue Moon… you saw me standing alone…
Blue moon
Now I’m no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
From Spaceweather:
BLUE MOON: Tonight’s full Moon is the second full Moon this month. According to modern folklore, that makes it a “Blue Moon.” Strange but … Continue reading
Happy Birthday VOYAGER!
From NASA (and remember that Pres. Obama has killed the manned space program… just another reason to vote against him):
August 20, 2012
Thirty-five years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that … Continue reading
New Mars Rover images coming in!
The other day I was pretty excited about the safe landing of the new Mars rover Curiosity. The dangerous entry and landing built a real excitement. Then the first images came in. Very cool.
Now that Curiosity has been on the … Continue reading
Watching Curiosity Land. Just Too Cool
This was so cool. I stayed up to watch the landing of the Mars Rover. I felt like a little kid again.
First images:
UPDATE
New photos from Mars Rover Curiositas:
UPDATE:
I watched it again and it gave me goose-flesh, again.
Shorter, of just the … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, JLP, Mars, Marvin the Martian, NASA, rover
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Just Too Cool: US Flags still standing on the Moon
This is for your Just Too Cool file.
As you read this, keep in mind that The First Gay President has killed our manned space program, thus enervating our collective imaginations and making us dependent on those who don’t like us. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, flag, manned space program, moon, NASA
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