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Check Six…

BySteeljawscribe 9 August 20079 August 2007

(Photos courtesy NASA)

Beautiful…seriously, just beautiful…

(Yes, we know the top shot is of Atlantis…)

2010: The Year We Lose Contact?

BySteeljawscribe 7 September 2008

“I’ll take ‘Space’ for $100B Alex” “Russia, South Ossetia, Georgia and the ISS.” “What is – How the US could find itself locked out of the ISS after 2010 Alex” Russia’s invasion and occupation of South Ossetia could have far reaching effects off world.Â In a scenario strikingly reminiscent of the movie, 2010, increased tensions…

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And Then There Were Two…

BySteeljawscribe 14 May 2010

Atlantis Lifts Off Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-132 mission to the International Space Station at 2:20 p.m. EDT on May 14. The third of five shuttle missions planned for 2010, this was the last planned launch for Atlantis. The Russian-built Mini…

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Because It Is All About the Science and International Cooperation…

BySteeljawscribe 21 September 2008

…Right? Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, flying on the International Space Station, is being criticized by some U.S. observers for using a digital camera equipped with an 800-mm. telephoto lens and a video camera to image what a Russian official said were “after-effects of border conflict operations in the Caucasus” on Aug. 9, soon after the…

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“That’s One Small Step for A Man…” Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012)

BySteeljawscribe 25 August 2012

Sad word today that Neil Armstrong – Naval Aviator, test pilot and first man on the Moon, has passed.Â Neil Armstrong typified the “quiet professional” whose coolness in extremis events were exemplified in flying the X-15 and especially so on orbit as commander of Gemini VIII when things suddenly went very, very wrong (@ the…

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ISS and Atlantis – as seen from the ground…

BySteeljawscribe 28 June 200729 June 2007

… 190 miles away as it were. Amazing the things amature astronomers can do these days. Latest example – take one Boston-area high school class, mix with the Clay Center Observatory‘s 25" telescope, a digital camera and adaptive optics and voila: More on adaptive optics here h/t: Chap and Danger Room

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE: 16 Dec 1917 – 19 Mar 2008

BySteeljawscribe 18 March 200830 March 2010

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. – Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951 Radar specialist, scientist, visonary and author. One of the great pillars…

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