Category Archives: Space Exploration

JPL Tweetup Highlights

On Monday, June 6, 2011, I was fortunate to be among the 100 or so individuals invited by NASA to attend a daylong Tweetup at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The event included briefings by members of … Read the rest of this entry

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NASA JPL Tweetup

I’ve been selected1 by NASA to participate in a special Tweetup event this Monday, June 6, 2011, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Visiting and touring JPL, which oversees all of NASA’s unmanned space probes, rovers, etc., … Read the rest of this entry

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50th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Moon Challenge

Today marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s famous speech where he challenged America to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. On May 25, 1961 when Kennedy gave this speech in front of … Read the rest of this entry

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A Major Endeavour Begins

Tomorrow is the final launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and thanks to a little bit of good luck (and a lot of jumping without a net and hoping the universe will catch me), I’m here on the Space Coast … Read the rest of this entry

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Star Trek Honor for Space Shuttle Discovery

At 3:23 am ET this morning (March 7, 2011), NASA gave a fitting tribute to the Space Shuttle Discovery as she wraps up her final mission. The Discovery astronauts were awoken with a very special version of the introduction to … Read the rest of this entry

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