U.S. Shoots for the Moon, This Time to Stay

June 18, 2009

Say this for the U.S. space program: we may have spent the last 40 years mostly ignoring the moon, but when we go back, we go back with a bang. Later today — if weather conditions and hardware permit — NASA will launch its much-anticipated and deeply imaginative Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the first American [...]

STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch: May 11th, 2009

May 18, 2009

We had the opportunity to view the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch from 11.9 miles away at Space View Park in Titusville, FL. See below for our video and below that for a wide angle video from a guy who sat beside us. You will want to fast forward to around 4:25 seconds into the video [...]

STS-125

May 11, 2009

During the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Atlantis’ seven astronauts will repair and improve the orbiting observatory’s capabilities. STS-125 is set to lift off from Launch Pad 39A today at 2:01 EDT weather permitting. We intend on being there to watch this launch and will have pictures and [...]

When We Left Earth

June 23, 2008

We love space exploration, space flight, and anything and everything else about space. So, when Landon Howell posted a blurb about the new TV series that NASA and the Discovery Channel have put together called, “When We Left Earth”, we had to go check it out. You can catch the series on the Discovery Channel [...]