1) They've cried wolf enough times at this point that I'm always skeptical about every new announcement ( Read more... )

Post copypasted from Tumblr b/c I'm just that excited.OMFG I’m so excited! New Horizons flew by Pluto about 2.5 hours ago. It’s going to remain pointed at Pluto for another 5 hours or so to get as much data as possible, and then the craft is going to slew around and spit back all the images and other data to Earth, and then it’s going to take ( Read more... )

Just watched the last Space Shuttle launch, Atlantis, on TV ( Read more... )

40 years ago today the first man walked on the Moon.

Tomorrow I'm meeting the astronauts who serviced the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time on the STS-125 mission. jmgold42 suggested as a question for them "Do you think we should go back to the Moon?" and I just may ask it (though I expect someone else will ask it). blue102 suggested a question about ( Read more... )