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Spaceflight Now | STS-127 | Mission Status Center
Jun 13th
Spaceflight Now | STS-127 | Mission Status Center
“Launch of the shuttle Endeavour, grounded by a gaseous hydrogen leak during fueling Saturday, is off until Wednesday at the earliest, NASA officials say. But because of the already planned launch of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite Wednesday, the shuttle team could be delayed to June 20, the last day this month Endeavour can be launched.”
Betelgeuse shrinking?
Jun 12th
UC Berkeley researchers say red giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.Long-term monitoring by UC Berkeley’s Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) on the top of Mt. Wilson in Southern California shows that Betelgeuse (bet’ el juz), which is so big that in our solar system it would reach to the orbit of Jupiter, has shrunk in diameter by more than 15 percent since 1993.
Nobody’s 100% sure if this is a normal size variation, or the beginning of the end for Betelgeuse. Red supergiants are older stars, living out their retirement and telling comets to “stay the hell off my orbit!” Shrinkage could just be the next step on the way to the supernova grave. So raise a glass of Metamucil to Betelgeuse, in case this is the beginning of the end.
Endeavour to Launch Saturday, June 13
Jun 11th
Spaceflight Now | STS-127 Shuttle Report | Endeavour
The countdown began on time at 9 a.m. Thursday, setting up a launch attempt at 7:17:15 a.m. EDT Saturday, roughly the moment Earth’s rotation carries launch pad 39A into the plane of the space station’s orbit. The shuttle has enough power to launch five minutes to either side of that “in-plane” time, but NASA targets the middle of the 10-minute window to maximize ascent performance.
Remembering Barry Goldwater
May 29th
Goldwater: you know he's right!
That seemed to prove to me that UFOs were a fact, and do exist. But, are they all aliens? I highly suspect a majority are! Hell, they are no doubt far ahead of our level of intelligence. TheUnited States Air Foce knows the truth, but will they ever reveal it to this nation?
Atlantis to Return to Earth Saturday, May 22nd
May 21st
“Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis are preparing to return to Earth after an ambitious and risky mission to re-fit the Hubble telescope.
Bad weather in Florida has cancelled the Friday landing.
Next landing oppurtunity will be Saturday at 9:16 a.m. EDT (1316 GMT), and they’ll have a back-up landing space Edwards Air Force Base in California if Kennedy is still having weather issues.
NASA Shuttle Atlantis /Hubble Telescope
May 9th
NASA Shuttle Main Page- Most Dangerous Mission:
Space Shuttle-Atlantis Hubble
This is a very lively feed. Thanks NASA
Nixon at Bohemian Grove
May 8th
“The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time–it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine…” – Richard Nixon
Found at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, home of an extensive Bohemian Grove gallery.
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