Early this morning, the International Space Station (ISS), along with the docked Space Shuttle Discovery, was scheduled to be visible over much of the east coast. I grabbed a camera and went outside just before it was supposed to appear. The results were as I expected — not great, but you can tell that it’s the ISS and not a star or planet.
The ISS and Space Shuttle Discovery as Seen From Pennsylvania |
| By: twolf1 Thursday April 8, 2010 6:20 am |
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Rocket Man: To Bolden Go Where No Man… |
| By: Desidero Thursday July 16, 2009 9:33 am |
During the campaign last year, when people were wringing their hands over how racist America is, I noted that we’d had 13 black astronauts in space, including 3 female, and 2 as mission commanders…. So yesterday, a few days from the 40th anniversary of Neil’s moondance, Bolden was named head of NASA.
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