NLCs in Mongolia.

The cool stuff always happens in places like Mongolia.
Here are some NLCs a fellow on board an Air France flight snapped a few days ago.

A sound which will soon become a distant memory.

For a few moments this morning, my sis thought a bomb had exploded in her neighborhood.
It didn't take her long to realize what it was.

When I lived in Florida, it never failed to bring a smile when I heard that sound; it was always good to know they were home.

The astro-hots are home!

Welcome home, STS-127!

Personally, the front porch would have been the FIRST thing I installed on my space station.
How else you gonna drink iced tea and chat with the neighbors?

Useful website.

Tonight's Sky lets you input your lat/long and choose which types of objects you'd like to see and what you'll be viewing with.

Very cool, though it makes me ill that I can't see squat for all the light pollution.

Here ya go.

Keep an ion this.

I loves me some ion thrusters, y'all.

Ain't bringing so much jollity now, are ya?

Ginormous something-or-other slams into Jupiter

One thought watching ISS Coverage today...

That's way too many people.

-The End.

40 Years Ago Today

Apollo 11 was launched. I swear I got teary typing that sentence. NASA has a wealth of very cool stuff on its website, including a remastered video of the moonwalk. You can also follow Apollo 11's progress in real-time, both on NASA's site and on www.wechoosethemoon.com. And that's a pretty cool anniversary logo.

I am resigned to getting nothing done for the next week.

Finally!

Liftoff!

Sky this Week.

Some good stuff in the sky right now...