Via a twitter by the name of sizemore:
“If NASA had an ounce of sense they’d ‘discover’ oil on Mars. Shuttle missions ready to go in 12 months. Armed to the teeth. Just in case.”
Water? Hmph, we all gotta step our games up on this one.
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Here’s the A-12 Blackbird that is parked in front of the Center’s tour exit. Always preferred this single seat version to the two seat SR-71.
Bit of a delay in getting these Space and Rocket Center pics up for ya’ll. Blame it on the work again. Here’s one of the Space Camp located right beside the center. It hosts week-long programs for kids that let them train in simulators and try to get a bit of the astronaut experience. In other words, it’s one of the most awesome things ever. Additionally, their dorms have got some of the best old-school future looks to them, as you can see above.
US Space and Rocket Center Preview Post:
This would be the full scale mockup of a Saturn V that the Space and Rocket Center has sitting right in front of their gosh darn entrance. It’s what the lay people call swaggin it out. Photo dump shall commence on ya’ll tomorrow.
Touch The Sky people.
(Btw, sent from thousands of feet up. Because I’m gonna try to get as close to touching the sky as I can as long as SpaceX, Richard Brandson, and etc. are gonna price out suborbital space flight to only the superrich. We in this together ya’ll.)
Guess who just went to the Space and Rocket Center and took over 90 pictures???
Ya’ll getting photo dumped on tomorrow or Monday, be prepared. Just have to see how long it takes to do 90 emails from my phone to the computer. (It’s times like these that I am tempted to finally upgrade to a smartphone)
NASA announced the site for the Mars Science Laboratory’s rover, named Curiosity, yesterday. It’s gonna be at a giant crater named Gale. Now, this crater has a friggin mountain rising out of it’s center. From the article:
“Gale crater is about 96 miles (154 kilometers) wide and has a mountain at its center that rises higher, from the crater floor up, than Mount Rainer near Seattle. The crater, which is named after Australian astronomer Walter F. Gale, is so large that the U.S. states of Connecticut and Rhode Island could fit inside it, NASA officials said. [Video: Fly Over Gale Crater on Mars]”
That’s just awesome. Check out NASA’s MSL page and JPL’s MSL page for more info and pics.
Via Space.com
That’ll do, ship. That’ll do.
It may have been expensive and unwieldy, but I love that craft like a fat kid loves cake.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=51312
NASA’s Earth Observatory took some sweet shots earlier this month, off the Terra satellite, of a record snowfall in South America’s Atacama Desert. This region, one of the driest in the world, received it’s largest snowfall in a half century - 32 inches. That’s 3.2 inches of rain, using the 10 to 1 conversion average. Contrast that with a yearly rainfall average of friggin 1-3 millimeters. As the EOS report states, this will be skewing that average upwards for a few years to come.
Thanks to the HuffPo for pointing this out to me today, completely missed the story when it was reported earlier this on the EOS site.
