Yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day was pretty neat. Â It was an astronaut grabbing a rather large satellite in an untethered spacewalk. The picture doesn’t capture really what’s happening here. Â The satellite is rotating while being captured. Â The video shows this better. Shannon couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Â “Is he crazy!” seems like what […]
“Sometimes doing nothing is the best option”
Great post by NASA’s Wayne Hale on his blog regarding conjuctions, or close encounters between the Space Shuttle and space junk. Â When a conjunction is going to occur during the crew sleep period and there is sufficient reason to believe there will not be a collision, mission controllers will set a timer to expire at […]
WLK releasing, STS-126 launchi…
WLK releasing, STS-126 launching — big exciting weekend. Kinda antsy waiting for it all…