Book Review: Gemini
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: John Vester Title: Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story Author: Jeffrey Kluger Format:
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1200 x 1200 pixel 500 kilobyte version 8000 x 8000 pixel 16 megabyte version This striking “Blue Marble” image of the Earth was taken January
There is an average of more than one planet per star in the Milky Way Image Credit: NASA / ESA / ESO With the forthcoming
STS-133 launches in February 2011. Photo by the author taken at Space View Park, Titusville, Florida. Despite the end of the space shuttle program in
MSL and its Atlas V on the launchpad this morning. Picture from Kennedy Space Center on Facebook. 8:41 a.m.: Okay, I am here. We
From Kennedy Space Center’s Facebook page – en route to the Vehicle Assembly Building, 11/25/2011. Watch this space…in the morning I will be here
According to Kennedy Space Center on Facebook: “The launch of the Atlas V carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), has been delayed one day to
Deke Slayton talks to Alan Shepard during Al’s 1961 suborbital flight like a boss. Life magazine photo. First, the good news: I have an awesome
Juno at 12:20 AM EDT on August 18, 2011. The solar-powered space probe is currently chillin’ in front of Uranus and Jupiter (its destination in
The author standing in front of Juno’s Atlas V, August 4th, 2011. GO BIG OR GO HOME! My article summing up Juno’s NASA Tweetup went
This video is no longer available. This video is a condensed collection of photos from the Juno NASA Tweetup last week. Originally I had
Juno hauling its solar-powered ass away from Earth around an hour and a half post-launch at 1:53 PM EDT, August 5th, 2011. Juno earlier this
This is where Juno was at 4:10 PM EDT today. Screenshot by me. A while back Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with the California
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