The current mission director for Landsat 5 (Steve) gave a talk today at lunch in the Pickford Theater, which was really way more interesting than one would think ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt we were on a deep space mission, and had arrived at an area where food sometimes became sentient. If it was in a field of strong thought and emotion, it would start thinking its own thoughts, having a sense of self ( Read more... )

At 11:30 I was at work, and my husband was pulling into the parking lot at Wegmans to do the weekly grocery shopping, when the last Space Shuttle blasted off. I did a play-by-play watching the last launch, describing, repeating the checks, announcements of speed and height. We got to the part of the sequence where the boosters are cast off ( Read more... )

Voyager is still in contact with enthusiastic Earthling scientists, and within 5 years, Voyager will be the first man-made object to really truly leave the Solar System.

Wow. Kewl.

We were watching something like vacation videos of Apollo 15 mission, and I learned something that sounds familiar, as if I had learned it once and forgotten it ( Read more... )

Saturday the 5th - Dream one in which I am having an extended conversation with a Dave Garrett or a Dave Barrett and he tells me to be sure to remember that he died at 9:22. Okay, dude! Look, I even wrote it down ( Read more... )