Fun Space Shuttle Facts
(as collected from various sources around the interweb…) A total of five space shuttles have flown 135 missions from 1981 through 2011. Cumulatively, thes...
Tag: space
A One-Way Trip to Mars…
I was reading a blog post the other day that talked about the concept of colonizing the red planet and one point stood out in particular to me – that 1,00...
“Oh, you washed them … well that makes it alright, then?!”
Funny video, beautifully rendered, and yet for some reason this wouldn’t surprise me in the least… Very Flight of the Conchords-y vibe to the dialog...
And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time…
It was both a little exciting and a little sad to come across this video of last week’s launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, as seen by a passenger jet ...
Disney is Cool — part 1
Buzz Lightyear Takes a REAL Trip into Space! http://media.wdwpublicaffairs.com/ContentDrillDown.aspx?DisplayItem=2cb46868-d016-4439-b863-38965c3dbbbd As part of...
‘Tis a sad day in the worlds of science fiction, space exploration, and oceanography…
Arthur C. Clarke passed away today http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080319/wl_asia_afp/britainsrilankaclarkepeople Here’s a pretty cool interview he did a fe...
Actually, I AM a rocket scientist…
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0711-toy/aldrin_b.uzz.html I came across this awesome picture of Buzz Aldrin while I was doing research for a column this ev...
a little perspective…
The size of our world, as compared to other heavenly bodies: http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
Simply amazing.
This morning I browsed around the surface of Mars while I ate my cinnamon-banana toast for breakfast. http://www.google.com/mars/ I remember back twenty years a...