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Ok, so this was last week. I’ve been busy and just didn’t get time to upload it. But the Virgin Galactic website released some really cool pics of their recent fly-by of San Francisco (and the opening of their new terminal at SFO–no more International Terminal squatting). So here are a few pics from this [...]

I was watching Apollo 13 the other day and the emotional peak is basically over when the nitty-gritty business of actually getting the astronauts out of the capsule begins. In the launches we saw as kids, the space capsule would come back to earth to a splashdown in the ocean, met rather quickly by a [...]

While the iPad 2′s new cover is really quite a sexy thing, magnets and all, it does leave you feeling a bit naked on the back of your iPad as it offers no protection to the metal back. To rectify this, I’ve just ordered a new ‘skin’ for my iPad 2 back from the Canadian [...]

As the Discovery rockets toward space today (on it’s final orbital mission before heading off to a museum) I was doing a bit of research on the space shuttle online. Came across some information on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, the big 747 you’ve seen on everything from CNN to James Bond’s Moonraker. But if you [...]

The US launched NROL-32 “the largest satellite” in the world the other day but won’t tell you what it is going to be used for. However, if you are curious, you can find the logo / patch online. In case you are wondering, Annuit Coeptis (I can’t type the exact characters) is roughly translated as [...]

From the US Air Force photo archives. 4th FW Strike Eagles assist shuttle launch Lt. Col. Gabriel Green and Capt. Zachary Bartoe patrol the airspace in an F-15E Strike Eagle as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches May 14, 2010, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Colonel Green is the 333rd Fighter Squadron commander and Captain Bartoe [...]

An Atlas V rocket passes through a layer of ice crystals just as it goes supersonic, with the sonic boom creating an amazing visual that could be seen from the ground. At minute 1:50 or so…

    I’ve taken a bit of a break from digital media blogging this week.  The jetlag from Vegas/CES and the fact the Haiti story is just so much more important than new TVs has led to me blogging about that disaster instead. One of the interesting things I’ve been reading about is the actual [...]

Here are the pics from my house on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, about 75 miles from the launch site.       More here  http://www.flickr.com/photos/penguinsix/sets/72157618411162551/

The Space Shuttle is going up today, but because it is heading to the Hubble Space Telescope and not toward the International Space Station, some special ‘rescue’ preparations are being made at the Cape.  The Endeavour has been readied and rolled out to launch pad 39b just in case the Atlantis, launching from 39a runs into [...]

Everyone talks the talk about accountability.  I’m looking today at some guy stepping down because Air Force One freaked out a bunch of New Yorkers.  But Gene Kranz is a guy who has walked the walk.  I was doing a bit of Googling tonight came across this quote following the disaster of Apollo 1.  Just [...]

Yea, a bit of a stretch, but due to an odd convergence of facts there is trouble with the International Space Station due to Russia’s recent foray into Georgia. The US Space Shuttle is due to be retired in 2010, with manned flights to the space station being handed over to Russian Soyuz rockets. But [...]

Well this is an interesting development. It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more “provocative” than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface…. Whilst NASA scientists are not claiming that life once existed on the Red Planet’s surface, new data appears to [...]

Found these on the Virgin Galactic website as they launched their new ‘launching’ vehicle today. This is what is on the side of the plane, in case you were wondering.