Category Archives: Spaceflight

Just now on NASA TV: Mission control instructed space walking astronauts to give the solar panels they’ve been folding up a shake. Mission Control: “You’re go for three shakes” Astronaut: “Is that One, Two, Five?” In mission control, there was … Continue reading →

Anousheh Ansari, of the same Ansari family of X-Prize fame is onboard the International Space Station. I like the X-Prize ball cap. Nice touch! On a side note, I see the X-Prize Foundation uses the WordPress blogging service. Technorati Tags: … Continue reading →

The firing of Charlie Carmada and the no-go, but go ahead decision last week indicate the cultural problems with NASA continue. Carmada’s disagreement stems from the way NASA selects members of its management teams, “I cannot accept the methods I … Continue reading →

This can be the greatest achievement since the Enron’s creative accounting system. “Where did that $95 billion Space Station go?” “It’s cloaked. Take my word for it.” Technorati Tags: Spaceflight

From NASA Watch: Celestron and Boy Scouts Venture Where NASA Can’t (Or Won’t). Again, private enterprise succeeds where government has no interest. Technorati Tags: Education, Science, Spaceflight

Here is a recording of last the Space Shuttle’s Sonic Boom recorded from Tehachapi. I should have set up a camera, because shortly before the boom, a bright light appeared to the south west, got increasingly brighter and passed directly … Continue reading →

Burt Rutan and Richard Branson have announced they will form a The Spaceship Company to build and fly commercial suborbital spacecraft based on White Knight/Spaceship One. So far, it’s been reported here and here.

Looks like NASA has found the problem with the fuel sensor and has set a new launch date for next Tuesday at 10:39AM EDT, within the original launch window. The problem was a faulty grounding in the wiring.

NASA Scrubbed today’s launch of Space Shuttle Discovery because of a fuel sensor glitch. It has echos of the Delta IV Heavy partial failure last December, which was caused by an erroneous reading of the sensor which shut down the … Continue reading →

I attempted to view the Minotaur Launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base. From

I shot this image a couple of minutes after the NASA B-52 dropped the X-43A on its successful Mach-10 flight this afternoon. The image was taken from the west side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula with an Olympus C-765. This … Continue reading →

NASA almost blew another one of its science projects in this Spaceref.com article, A DART Near Miss: Infighting at Orbital – and Deceiving NASA. It has the echoes of a bad disaster movie.