Posts tagged “space”
NASA HQ Open House
Courtesy yatesc, I now have a photo on the cover of a NASA publication — specifically this shot of Discovery, used for “Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography Part 2, 1992–2011.” On the Friday before the 2013 Inauguration, NASA HQ had an Open House event in DC, and I was on [...]
Peripheral Space Tweet Fame
It started with a brief Twitter exchange between two famous Canadians, Star Trek actor William Shatner and ISS Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield: @williamshatner Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we’re detecting signs of life on the surface. — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) January 3, 2013 I spontaneously expressed my amazement at this “Life in the Future” [...]
Recent Reading
50 years to orbit: Dream Chaser’s crazy Cold War backstory — Fascinating Ars Technica article on the esoteric history of Dream Chaser, Sierra Nevada Corp’s upcoming commercial spaceplane. Project Icarus: Laying the Plans for Interstellar Travel — Atlantic Tech article on Project Icarus plans to build a 100-year starship capable of interstellar travel to nearby [...]
Augmented Reality Curiosity
Speaking of Curiosity, JPL has made Spacecraft 3D, an augmented reality app for iOS that projects a simulated Mars rover onto your camera view. Just print out the 3D marker (embedded in the app and emailable from there as a PDF), place it on a flat surface, and point the camera at it with the [...]
Curiosity
On November 26th, 2011 — the Saturday after Thanksgiving — NASA JPL’s Mars Science Laborotary, AKA “Curiosity,” lifted off on an Atlas V (541) rocket. It was a familiar sight — almost the same rocket configuration as we had watched launch at the Juno NASA Tweetup, minus one solid booster. (The difference was that Juno [...]
Discovery in DC
On Tuesday, 17 April 2012, The Space Shuttle Discovery came to Washington, borne on the back of 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft NASA 905 for a grand DC flyover before landing at Dulles Airport for transfer to its final destination: the Udvar-Hazy Center Space Hangar. I got photos from Lincoln Memorial with my freshly bought NEX3, [...]
ATREX
“T minus three minutes.” There was my cue to head upstairs. It took two and a half minutes to get to the roof deck (I’d measured this before) plus another 30 seconds to set up the camera. Cutting it close, but I wanted to spend as little time in the freezing cold as possible, while [...]
Air and Space Autostitch
While Amy had classes and workshops at the American Indian Museum and National Gallery a few weekends ago, I wandered around the Air and Space Museum with my iPhone and tried out Autostitch to get some wide-angle shots of Gallery 101 and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: I also saw a couple of student orchestras play [...]
NASA Tweetup: Juno
In early August 2011 I attended a NASA Tweetup at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for the launch of Juno, JPL’s new probe to Jupiter.