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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…)

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Back to the Future: LRO Images Apollo 11’s Landing Site
BySteeljawscribe 19 July 200919 July 2009

Apropos that on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the landing on the Moon, the latest US visitor and (hopefully) precursor to our return via the Constellation program, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the location in Mare Tranquilis that was the site of Apollo 11’s landing (click on image to enlarge): Note the object…

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CAPT Wally Schirra, USN-Ret.: 12 Mar 1923 – 3 May 2007
BySteeljawscribe 3 May 200728 March 2010

“Are you a turtle?” I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.- Wally Schirra Born into an aviator family (his father had gone to Canada during WW1 to earn his wings and his mom…

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China’s ASAT – The Problem With Debris
BySteeljawscribe 20 January 200728 February 2010

Lots of press these past few days over China’s ASAT test/demonstration vs. a defunct FY-1C weather satellite. Some may ask why the big deal — space after all, is not the province of but a few privileged nations and the target satellite was theirs, so why the concern? In a word, debris. The rather violent…

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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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“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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Trying Something New
BySteeljawscribe 18 November 200718 November 2007

Given our predilection to trying new things around here (as opposed to say, oh, the local pro-football team) we’re trying out a new PDF embed and share process from Adobe called, surprisingly enough, SHARE. Of course it is in beta, so it may or may not work. If it does, what you will see below…

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