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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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Challenger/STS-51L

BySteeljawscribe 28 January 2014

Twenty-eight years ago this morning our hearts were broken…

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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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US Space Program: Lost in Place?

BySteeljawscribe 6 July 20106 July 2010

What is the mission of NASA? No — Seriously, what is NASA’s mission? Is it to be the lead Agency for exploration in the fields of aeronautics and space?Â Discovering new technologies, opening new vistas of engineering and scientific knowledge for further exploration and utilization by US industry and the free nations of the world?…

Flightdeck Friday | history lessons | Naval Aviation Centenary | space

Flightdeck Friday: Apollo 11 Forty Years Later

BySteeljawscribe 17 July 200917 July 2009

20 July 1969 102:42:08 Duke: Roger. Copy. (Pause) Eagle, Houston. You’re Go for landing. Over. 102:42:13 Armstrong (on-board): Okay. 3000 at 70. 102:42:17 Aldrin: Roger. Understand. Go for landing. 3000 feet. 102:42:19 Duke: Copy. 102:42:19 Aldrin: Program Alarm. (Pause) 1201 102:42:24 Armstrong: 1201. (Pause) (On-board) Okay, 2000 at 50. 102:42:25 Duke: Roger. 1201 alarm. (Pause)…

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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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“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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