Sometimes you look at old pictures and think “Awwww”. Â I just look at this one and think how beat city my lawn was in 2006. Â Yikes. Â Eila looks cute, though.
Flying Free
Yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day was pretty neat. Â It was an astronaut grabbing a rather large satellite in an untethered spacewalk. The picture doesn’t capture really what’s happening here. Â The satellite is rotating while being captured. Â The video shows this better. Shannon couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Â “Is he crazy!” seems like what […]
Wants For Sale
This couple from New York paints pictures of the things they want, and sell the paintings for the price of the real item. When the painting sells, they buy that item. Really neat concept. Wants for Sale (from Kottke)
“Sometimes doing nothing is the best option”
Great post by NASA’s Wayne Hale on his blog regarding conjuctions, or close encounters between the Space Shuttle and space junk. Â When a conjunction is going to occur during the crew sleep period and there is sufficient reason to believe there will not be a collision, mission controllers will set a timer to expire at […]
Flot
Joe (@szac) turned me on to Flot for a project he’s working on. Â I’m helping him out with some php logic. Â Flot a pretty nifty graphing library all in javascript. Â The examples show that it’s capable of a lot: multiple axes, multiple series, highlighting, and all can be updated real-time using Ajax. Â But at its […]
Geek Maternity Shirts
This is really cute. Â Although, maybe a pregnant mother wouldn’t think so. Geeky maternity t-shirts (From Boing Boing)
Ares I-X Rollout
I tried to stay up to watch the start of the rollout live – scheduled for 12:01AM this morning, but it got delayed about an hour, so I’m glad I didn’t. Â The last bit of the rollout is happening right now. Someone on the nasaspaceflight.com forum this morning noted that the last rocked to rollout […]
Making Ravioli
It was an interesting first attempt to make pasta. I’ve learned why pasta machines exist, also.
Spaceflight, Helicopters, and Nomads
Before launches at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Helicopters search the downrange path of rockets to find any nomads in the vast grasslands of Kazakhstan. Â If any are found they are warned of the upcoming launches. Link This picture of this activity was particularly interesting: (image from russianspaceweb.com, copyright noted) The americans launch with ocean downrange. […]
Ares
One of the things I’ve been looking forward to recently is the rollout (on 10/20) and the launch (scheduled for 10/27) of  Ares I-X: NASA’s first test flight of the new rockets in support of the Constellation Program (created by Bush II in his Vision for Space Exploration). It’s been exciting to read about the […]