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Tag Archives: NASA
Do know what “Maranatha” is in the Catholic Church? Really?
What passed through my mind when I read this… I’ll say, below. From NASA: Watch Live as NASA Spacecraft Collides With Far-Off Asteroid NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged anathema, excommunication, Maranatha, NASA
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What a rocket launch looks like… from space.
What a rocket launch looks like from space. This is from APOD. The launch of a Soyez resupply mission for the ISS. One of these days, I’ll make a radio contact with the ISS as it passes over. Meanwhile, on … Read More
WATCH – 18 Feb 21 – Mars Rover “Perseverance” to land at approx. 1555 EST
UPDATE 19 Feb: Just too cool… Perseverance has microphones. HERE From NASA: Tune in for live coverage and landing commentary from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) beginning at 2:15 p.m. EST on the NASA TV Public Channel and the agency’s website, … Read More
CQ CQ CQ: #HamRadio – International Space Station UPGRADED
Although I am a NASA certified Space Shuttle Door Gunner and a certified expert on the Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser, I have not yet had a contact with the International Space Station. Contact, that is, via radio. I received a Just … Read More
Posted in Ham Radio, Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged CQ, Ham radio, ISS, NASA, spacex
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4 Comments
CQ CQ CQ #HamRadio issue: Video from NASA about “Our Next Solar Cycle”
NASA has a video about the next Solar Cycle. Every 11 years your planet’s yellow star goes through a cycle of more or less activity. This activity can effect the layers of your planet’s atmosphere. In turn that impacts the … Read More
Posted in Ham Radio, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged amateur radio, CQ, Ham radio, NASA, solar cycle
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My View For Awhile: Jezero Crater
My View For Awhile… well… this one might have to be postponed for a while. I’ve signed up with NASA for some news and links for the upcoming launch of PERSEVERANCE and the little Martian chopper INGENUITY. The way I see it, … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Gunner, JPL, LASER, Mars, NASA, rover
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Look! Up in the sky! ISS and Crew Dragon and mini rant.
From NASA’s Astronomy Pic of the Day, comes a time lapse, composite view of the International Space Station zooming along in tandem with Demo-S, Crew Dragon, over Manhattan’s skys. This was taken at the reservoir in Central Park. Very cool. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged International Space Station, NASA, spacex
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#LaunchAmerica SUCCESS!
THAT was cool. This afternoon I set things aside to watch the launch of the first manned space flight from USA soil in almost a decade. Demo-2 atop the Falcon 9. Postponed a few days ago because of weather, today … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, The future and our choices
Tagged Demo-2, NASA, space program, spacex
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VIDEO: Today NASA with SpaceX will, God willing, launch men into space, from these USA!! #LaunchAmerica @FatherZ wistfully muses
What I would give today to be several decades younger so that I could be a chaplain in the US SPACEFORCE! Today NASA with SpaceX will, God willing, launch men into space, from these USA!! First time in long time. … Read More
16 July 1969 – #Apollo11 and Our Lady of Mt Carmel
I have amazingly clear memories of the whole Apollo 11 mission. Indeed of all the missions before and after, but this and 13 in particular. I received this… From a reader: Today, July 16, is the 50th anniversary of the … Read More
Dan on That puts things in perspective.: ““If your priest of Bishop refuses to be a Saint, be a Saint for them” Robert Cardinal Sarah”
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