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 […]
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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 […] 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 […] 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.” Feel […] |
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