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The second of 3 planned space walks took place today and the ISS now has it's full compliment of Gyroscopes replacing one which had failed in 2002. With the shuttle fleet fate unknown the crew needs to get as much work done as possible on the ISS thus the Shuttle is going to extend it's stay by one day. [BBC]
Being Discovery has had as about as much attention put on it as any space shuttle in history their are some very amazing pictures online that you should check out.. You can tell they invested some money in some very good cameras and lenses. [NASA]
Were you gonna be in 2036 so long as I take care of myself I should be enjoying my retirement. That is unless a asteroid comes by and messes my day up. [Christian Science Monitor]
Just think about it you have 100 million dollars laying around in your checking account, and you decide you want to go to the moon. So all you have to do is call the Russians and they will build you a spaceship that will take you to the moon and back. Now if you want to land you better dig
NASA is taking this business of stuff falling off the shuttle and fuel tank pretty darn serious. But what suprises me is that tiles have come off before. If I remember correctly they have some fudge room if they loose a couple of tiles. But the external fuel tank is another story they are not at all happy about that.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that they can make that date, hopefully this sensor issue is behind them. I personally have experienced the pressure of getting equipment fixed so something important could take place but nothing even close to this scale can you imagine the heat that had to be on the engineers. I always hate it though when your
My hat is off to NASA and JPL who have done a magnificent job managing the two rovers that are still roving on Mars, let us not forget that your tax payer dollars are still at work on Mars, the question to be answered is can they survive another Mars winter. [NASA JPL]