Book Review: Reality Check
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Dale Skran Title: Reality Check Authors: Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz Format: Paperback Pages: 161 Publisher:
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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...
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