While we were galavanting around Europe, the second-to-last shuttle mission was underway. It was one of the longest shuttle missions…
Slip Sliding Away
For something that’s “only” a comic, xkcd is really good at making you think. The worst part of the graph…
50 Years in Space
Happy Cosmonautics Day! Happy Yuri’s Night! Happy Space Day! However you slice it: today is the 50th anniversary of human…
Welcome Home Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery returned to Earth for the final time this morning. It was a picture perfect landing, a fitting…
Winding Down
A few months ago, I thought I’d be spending this weekend running with my BAM buddies in the Texas Independence…
STS-133 Team Photos
Time for some gratuitous photos of yours truly! Here I am at the Rendezvous console towards the end of last…
In a Fog
The working-a-mission black hole continues. The fog this morning at 3:00 am was crazy thick — the photo above doesn’t…
STS-133 Rendezvous
The much-delayed STS-133 finally launched on Thursday afternoon — with 2 seconds to spare in the launch window, no less!…
Go STS-133
I can’t remember which morning I took this picture. I think it was last Tuesday, since I’ve got regular 7…
Day of Remembrance
Apollo 1 ~ January 27, 1968 Challenger ~ January 28, 1986 Columbia ~ February 1, 2003 Yesterday was the NASA…
I Might Just Get The Hang Of This…
(source) My part of the CoFR process for the next Progress launch wrapped up today with a 6 a.m. meeting…
Foreign Relations
(source) Today started at 7 am and by 3:00 I was SO READY to get away from work. It was…