Keith’s personal note: I just can’t get over this video. My father died a few months ago. He was a few weeks shy of 95. He carried World War II […]
2018
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Doesn't Anyone Remember Space History?
Not only was this photo taken by a Mars rover years ago but the first sunset photo from #Mars was taken by the Viking 1 Lander in 1976 https://t.co/Ch10JM94AC #factchecking […]
Posted inCommercialization
64 Satellites Deployed By A Rocket SpaceX Used Three Times
Falcon 9 launches 64 payloads to orbit for the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission, marking SpaceX’s 19th launch in 2018. pic.twitter.com/oeX98v1t2N — SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 4, 2018
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
A Strange Way To Do NASA Mission Media Outreach (Update)
Keith’s note: Yesterday I posted a Twitter response to a tweet my New Horizons mission PI Alan Stern. This is what it originally looked like in case it is deleted. […]
Posted inRussia
Soyuz Does Its Thing Again
Soyuz MS-11 Arrives At The International Space Station “The Soyuz carrying Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, and Oleg Konenenko of Roscosmos launched at 6:31 […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Bennu
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu “The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid. Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
It Takes Humans AND Robots
So what’s the big deal about Mars InSight?, Sean O’Keefe, OpEd, The Hill “The late, great courageous explorer Neil Armstrong once described his experience listening to a team of lunar […]
Posted inIT/Web
JPL Needs A Twitter Fact Checker (Update)
Hey @NASA_JPL and @NASA – your chart says that the Viking landers were solar powered. Wrong. They had plutonium-238 RTGs. https://t.co/wbVvmYvnJx — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 1, 2018 Keith’s 30 […]
Posted inPersonnel News
George H.W. Bush
NASA Administrator Statement on Passing of George H.W. Bush “From being the Navy’s youngest fighter pilot in World War II and being shot down, to his years of public service […]
Posted inApollo
Doing Something Again For The First Time
Keith’s note: I first published this exactly one year ago. Listening to all of the talk about going (back) to the Moon – and asking for a show of hands […]