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Tag Archives: NASA
Opportunity has reached Endeavour!
We’ve lost poor Spirit, but intrepid little Opportunity keeps motoring along. NASA reports that Opportunity has after a 3 year portion of its already 8 year anabasis has crawled up to Endeavour crater, 14 miles in diameter. We should be … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit, Zagnut
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New Mars Rover News
We haven’t forgotten poor Spirit, but… NASA to Announce Landing Site for New Mars Rover July 18, 2011 WASHINGTON — NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July … Read More
The US Space Program – WDTPRS POLL
With this final Space Shuttle launch, the US now “leads from behind” also in the exploration of space. Whither the US manned space program? Chose the best answer and give your opinion in the com box.
We’ve got Spirit, yes we do! We’ve got Spirit… well… not so much.
Sad news from NASA: NASA Concludes Attempts to Contact Mars Rover Spirit The full version of this story with accompanying images is HERE. PASADENA, Calif. — NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, … Read More
50 years ago today… where were you?
Fifty years ago today, a guy crawled up on top of an 70+ foot high Roman candle knowing that someone would light the fuse and blow him into space riding something called “Freedom 7”. In April 1961 the Bay of … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Alan Sheppard, Apollo 14, Astronaut, Liberty 7, manned space program, Mercury, NASA, POTUS, President Obama, Redstone Rocket
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Just too cool stuff
I remain a real fan of the Mars Rover missions. One of the readers here, who works for NASA actually sent me a Spirit mission patch! Poor Spirit… sniff. Opportunity is still chugging along. I tune in once in a … Read More
A different sort of “Saturno”
Wow. Look at the colors.
Does Pres. Obama desire the USA to slide into mediocrity?
Does Pres. Obama desire the USA to slide into mediocrity? Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan raise the question. From Politico with my E & C. Armstrong: Obama hurting Space effort Former astronaut Neil Armstrong has issued a strongly … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Ares, Constellation, Eugene Cernan, Jim Lovell, NASA, Neil Armstrong, POTUS, Pres. Obama, space program
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41 Comments
Older, Smarter
From NASA comes this about one of the intrepid Mars Rovers… Opportunity: NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its … Read More
“Do I get to come home?”
President Obama wants to kill NASA and the space program. In reference to the poor little rover Spirit, stuck on Mars, a reader sent this cartoon: Sniff. I must admit I also hated Toy Story, one of the saddest movies … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Mars Rover, martian rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit, Toy Story
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Benedict Joseph on The Big Lie of Mr. Cricket: “Andrea Grillo however does serve a purpose. He boldly unmasks the nature of the post-Catholic ideology to which he is…”
