As I mentioned earlier this month, there was a total Lunar Eclipse this morning for people in Western North America. I was running a bit late, but did get to see some of it - including totality.
Although it wasn’t the “dreamy shade of sunset red” that NASA’s Spaceweather site talked about (it had a slight [...]
I’m being followed by an Earth shadow - August 2007 Lunar Eclipse
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Astronomy and Space
Wally Schirra
May 4th, 2007 · No Comments
By now, many people have commented on the death of former astronaut Wally Schirra yesterday. There is, of course, a lot of information on his accomplishments, which were many.
I always felt a personal connection with Wally. My mom used to joke that I was named after him (sorry mom, not sure I buy [...]
Tags: General
NASA’s CoLab
April 11th, 2007 · No Comments
via Slashdot:
Wired has an article on a new effort at NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) called CosmosCode, which is part of the CoLab initiative. From the CoLab website:
As NASA’s lead center for information technology in support of the Vision for Space Exploration, ARC is exploring new opportunities to work openly and collaboratively with [...]
Tags: Astronomy and Space · Programming
