My guess is the headache medication hasn’t been dispensed this heavily in NASA’s HR and PR departments since Lisa Nowak’s adventures in February. These two stories — worker sabotages computer destined for International Space Station and employee embezzles $150,000 — are bad enough. This one, though, is horrendous. A panel reviewing astronaut [...]
I wanted to mention a couple of neat space-related links I stumbled across over the last couple days.
One site features the sounds of space while another part of the site has recordings from various space missions. (Via Amy on the Web.). I’ve heard a CD of space sounds before but am not sure [...]
Interesting watching the space shuttle Discovery land through the eye of infrared cameras this morning. Even more interesting, though, is how, after almost 100 flights in 24 years, the NASA spin has moved the shuttle from a workhorse to an “experimental space vehicle.” Even with that status accorded it, let’s hope the grounding of the [...]
NASA is halting future shuttle flights after learning a chunk of insulating foam broke off Discovery’s external fuel tank during launch. This is a problem similar to what caused the Columbia disaster.
So far it looks like Discovery doesn’t have any problems but the NYT had an interesting observation in an article today:
The more NASA looks [...]
At least a pleasant diversion from what’s happening on this planet:
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - Europe’s Huygens space probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on Friday, sending back signals that it made a safe descent and its scientific experiments in the mysterious atmosphere had gone as planned.Parachutes designed to smooth its approach deployed on time [...]
I was working on a variety of posts, the inadvertent destruction of pertinent military payroll records of Dubya’s, the sorry state of reading in America, and the GOP’s appalling efforts to preserve one of the Patriot Act’s more offensive provisions. But while surfing I came across a site that made me think, “Screw it.” [...]
White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich by Paul Garson
