The Atlantic has a great photo gallery of Space Shuttle pictures including several unusual pictures such the Star Trek cast in front of Enterprise and Enterprise on the never used launch pad in California. Link.
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History of the Shuttle Program in Pictures
July 1, 2011
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There is some rare good news in the field of endangered species. The Las Vegas Valley leopard frog, which some believe the only US amphibian to have gone extinct, is not extinct. This frog always intrigued me. As a native Las Vegan, it would be have exciting to find a frog living in the desert [...]
Nice in Vegas, hot otherwise
June 10, 2011
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Our local Weather Service office put up this graphic yesterday and it really explains how pleasant our spring has been. I’ll take it as long long as it lasts but I’ve seen some hints of 110° highs coming up 9 and 10 days out. Click to embiggen.
Martian Summer
June 5, 2011
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I just finished reading Martian Summer and it was very entertaining and humorous book. Running a very expensive and complicated mission on the surface of another planet is an incredibly difficult task. First of all, the crew works on “Mars time” which leads to exhaustion and possibly making mistakes. The Mars Polar lander is a [...]
Entomology is cool!
June 4, 2011
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This little video of about tropical arthropod sampling is great. I need to mentor more with my entomologist boss and live like a rock star! Sifting from Jennie Russ on Vimeo.
Welcome back, Endeavour
June 2, 2011
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I stayed up and was watching the landing streaming live online and had started from before the deorbit burn. The Commander had handed over control of Endeavour to the pilot for a few seconds (a NASA tradition) just before landing when the video stream quit. I got it going again in time to hear “Wheels [...]
Go Endeavour!
May 16, 2011
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Amazing launch today of the last flight of Endeavour. Kinda cool with the Shuttle disappearing into the cloud deck but probably a little bit of a disappointment for the onlookers. STS-131, a night launch, I watched until Discovery disappeared over the horizon and STS-133 I was able to see the SRB separation through my camera [...]
The Michael Bay Scenario
May 9, 2011
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Flooding is serious business. This year’s flooding on the Mississippi is really bad. xkcd’s creator, Randall Munroe, looks at a worst case scenario. Well, he looked at it last year. Anyway, the scenario is that crest of the flood overwhelms the Army Corps of Engineer’s structure keeping the Mississippi in the Mississippi and the river [...]
Camilla is my favorite rubber chicken. I met her at the STS-133 NASA Tweetup back in October. In fact, she was the first Tweep I met. I met her at the press credential site when I picked up my badge. She was nice enough to give me a patch for her mission, the Solar Dynamics [...]
Asian Carp Post-Apocalyptic Warfare
May 3, 2011
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Invasive fish are a expensive and troublesome problem. A portion of my job is figuring out how to kill bad fish. These guys in Illinois are taking things to the next level:
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