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Solar Cycle 24 – Introducing Low Contrast Sun Spots
A very interesting change has taken place on the Sun. As readers of this blog know, I have been watching the Sun for some time, especially with regards to the deep solar minimum we currently have...
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Last night I had the strangest dream…
Somewhere before dawn this morning, I started a long, low-key dream in which I was composing a blog post about one of my favorite books: The CRC Handbook of Astronautics. The book was about the same...
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Inconstant moon
Got up a bit earlier than usual this morning with hopes of dragging out my telescope and seeing the LCROSS lunar impact first-hand. I was encouraged because when I went to bed last night, the sky had...
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NRO’s X-37B UAV Shuttle Stumps Astronomers
I have been watching with growing levels of delight as a community of amateur satellite hunters have been tracking one of our nation’s newest space platforms, known as the X-37B. In this age of...
View ArticleTime for a new approach to space
As I’ve posted here before, I grew up with the Space Age and worked at NASA just on the Space Shuttle flight simulators just prior to the first Shuttle launch. I desperately want to see humans back...
View ArticleCounting down
Good to see NASA doing what it does best: building robotic space probes. And the steampunk vibe from the stabilizer test at 20 seconds in is great.
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Reliving Apollo 11
As I wrote here years ago, I was a child of the space age and later ended up working (as a contractor) at NASA/Johnson Space Center on the Space Shuttle flight simulators, then next door at the Lunar...
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Up Earth Creek without a paddle [repost]
[I originally wrote this post back in 2007. As we hit the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, it still says everything I think about our past and current space efforts.] I am a child of the...
View ArticleTHE SECRET LUNAR WARS [closed]
The myth of the US-USSR space race was that it was done for scientific prestige. Behind that is the deeper myth that it was done for nuclear superiority and counterbalance. The truth is that it was...
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SECRET LUNAR WARS: update #1
Abandoned nuclear test site in Nevada A few stories have come in, and I’m quite pleased with them. I think this is going to be a great, entertaining anthology. In the meantime, someone posted this...
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