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  • Blog Post: Send your poems to Mars on MAVEN

    Sarah Scoles
    [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Missions/6087.maven.jpg" position="right" targeturl="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Missions/6087.maven.jpg...
    on Tue, May 7 2013

  • Blog Post: NASA publishes its proposed 2014 budget

    Sarah Scoles
    [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Missions/4135.orionmpcv.jpg" position="right" targeturl="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Missions/4135.orionmpcv...
    on Thu, Apr 11 2013

  • Blog Post: Curiosity’s landing – imaged!

    Liz Kruesi
    I just stumbled across this awesome action shot of the Curiosity rover’s landing ! The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Renaissance Orbiter captured this picture of the rover’s deployed parachute. The HiRISE team then stretched the image to avoid desaturation...
    on Mon, Aug 6 2012

  • Blog Post: Calling all space and car geeks …

    Ron Kovach
    [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Missions/2728.Curiosity.jpg" position="right" targeturl="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Missions/2728.Curiosity...
    on Thu, Aug 2 2012

  • Blog Post: Citizen scientists: Target an asteroid!

    Karri Ferron
    Last week, NASA announced a new outreach program that I’m sure some of you citizen scientists will want to take part in: Target Asteroids! The space agency is asking amateur astronomers to study various near-Earth objects (NEOs) from an initial list of some 74 that are at least 656 feet (200 meters...
    on Tue, Apr 24 2012

  • Blog Post: "Broken" Apollo 11 rocket engines found in Atlantic

    Chris Raymond
    I’m embarrassed to admit this, but, according to my parents, when I was a mere three years old and watching the Apollo 11 launch July 16, 1969, on our tiny low-def TV, my infant vocal cords supposedly uttered “Aw, he broke” after the first-stage Saturn V engine separation. [caption...
    on Tue, Apr 3 2012

  • Blog Post: NASA budget controversy 2012 — the results

    Karri Ferron
    For months now, professional scientists and astronomy enthusiasts alike have awaited the result of congressional negotiations over NASA’s 2012 fiscal year budget. The big question: Would the troubled James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the space agency’s replacement for Hubble, survive the...
    on Mon, Nov 21 2011

  • Blog Post: Astroimager “honored” by NASA

    Michael Bakich
    Astronomy magazine features some well-known contributors, many on the science end and others who represent amateur astronomy. And when one of these people wins the Nobel Prize, for example, or receives some other award, we like to tout it here. What you’re about to read, however, may be the strangest...
    on Fri, Oct 21 2011

  • Blog Post: What’s in an instrument’s name?

    Karri Ferron
    Recently, I’ve learned about two opportunities for the public to contribute in naming key scientific instruments in the astronomy community. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/astronomy.Telescopes/6355.GRAIL_5F00_300.jpg" targeturl...
    on Tue, Oct 18 2011

  • Blog Post: LEGO and NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Partnership Rocks!

    Chris Raymond
    Those who know me understand that within my 45-year-old frame beats the heart of a child. I still play video games, still shake presents under the tree in the days leading up to Christmas, and still feel that same sense of awe when viewing the rings of Saturn like I did when I first glimpsed them through...
    on Fri, Aug 5 2011

  • Blog Post: So long, space

    Bill Andrews
    With the safe landing of STS-135 , the final space shuttle mission, yesterday morning, the program is officially over. Barring some kind of crazy, last minute, Hail Mary mission, we’ll never see another space shuttle actually shuttle anyone to space. The United States can no longer do that feat...
    on Fri, Jul 22 2011

  • Blog Post: Atlantis’ emotional landing

    Mike Reynolds
    The press site at the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility was filled with working press, NASA employees, contractors, and many others for this morning’s landing of space shuttle Atlantis . I had not seen nearly that many reporters and others at the Shuttle Landing Facility...
    on Thu, Jul 21 2011

  • Blog Post: The emotions of the space shuttle’s final launch

    Mike Reynolds
    With STS-135 underway and Atlantis safely in orbit , I began to personally reflect on what this last-of-an-era launch and mission means to me as well as to the leader in space exploration: the United States of America. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components...
    on Mon, Jul 11 2011

  • Blog Post: T-31 seconds and holding … and counting!

    Mike Reynolds
    The countdown to Atlantis ' liftoff was one of the most surreal space shuttle countdowns and launches I have witnessed. Despite the weather forecasters best prognostications, the weather continued to improve up to launch. The conditions were right on the edge of being no-go; the Shuttle Training...
    on Fri, Jul 8 2011

  • Blog Post: T-2 hours and counting …

    Mike Reynolds
    I left my hotel in Orlando, Florida, (could not get a room any closer to the shuttle Atlantis launch site than that!) at 5:45 a.m. EDT. Traffic going to NASA's Kennedy Space Center was heavy but moving at the speed limit … until I got to Gate 2. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile...
    on Fri, Jul 8 2011

  • Blog Post: Celebrating the space shuttle

    Karri Ferron
    With space shuttle Atlantis scheduled to launch tomorrow on the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program ( although weather forecasts for Kennedy Space Station in Florida currently don’t look too promising ), I reflected on the truly remarkable feat of engineering that is this fleet of spacecraft...
    on Thu, Jul 7 2011

  • Blog Post: T-1 day … and raining!

    Mike Reynolds
    As I stood at NASA's Kennedy Space Center press site today at 11:26 a.m., the rain was falling steadily from heavy clouds and there was even some lightning. And that's the summary for tomorrow's weather forecast for the first space shuttle Atlantis STS-135 launch attempt. [caption image="...
    on Thu, Jul 7 2011

  • Blog Post: Space shuttle Atlantis launch scheduled

    Liz Kruesi
    Get ready to say goodbye to the space shuttle program. NASA just announced that the Atlantis launch is scheduled for Friday, July 8. This will mark the very last flight of the program. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/astronomy.Spacecraft...
    on Tue, May 24 2011

  • Blog Post: Guest blog: Beginning of the end of the shuttle program

    Karri Ferron
    Brenda Culbertson, a friend of Astronomy magazine, has been at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for 3 weeks to cover the final launch of space shuttle Endeavour . She’s now returning return home to Kansas, but not before she captured photos of one more key shuttle program event. [caption image...
    on Thu, May 19 2011

  • Blog Post: So long, shuttle launches

    Bill Andrews
    Well, it’s official — the space shuttle Endeavour successfully launched Monday morning on the STS-134 mission to the International Space Station, and we’re all that much closer to a world without any more shuttle launches. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer...
    on Wed, May 18 2011

  • Blog Post: Guest blog: Successful launch of space shuttle Endeavour

    Karri Ferron
    On May 16, Brenda Culbertson, an observational astronomer, astrophotographer, and outreach educator from Kansas, as well as a friend of Astronomy magazine, finally witnessed a space shuttle launch 17 days after Endeavour was scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center. She has been kind enough to...
    on Mon, May 16 2011

  • Blog Post: Guest blog: Tour of Kennedy Space Center buildings

    Karri Ferron
    While waiting in Titusville, Florida, for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour , Astronomy ’s volunteer launch representative, Brenda Culbertson, was able to explore all Kennedy Space Center had to offer. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles...
    on Sun, May 15 2011

  • Blog Post: Guest blog: STS-134 nears launch date (again)

    Karri Ferron
    Prep for the final launch of space shuttle Endeavour continues in Titusville, Florida. The takeoff has been postponed several times since the original launch date of April 29, which was scrubbed because of an electrical short. Since then, NASA has overcome the problem by replacing parts and wires and...
    on Thu, May 12 2011

  • Blog Post: Guest blog: Witnessing an Atlas V launch

    Karri Ferron
    Brenda Culbertson, a friend of Astronomy magazine and an observational astronomer, astrophotographer, and outreach educator from Kansas, continues to wait in Titusville, Florida, for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour , now scheduled for May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT. In the meantime, she got to experience...
    on Tue, May 10 2011

  • Blog Post: Guest blog: STS-134 — the last mission of space shuttle Endeavour

    Karri Ferron
    If we could, an Astronomy staff member would attend every shuttle launch down in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Unfortunately, that’s not in the budget, so we rely on friends of the magazine to represent us at such events. When we found out Brenda Culbertson, an observational astronomer, astrophotographer...
    on Wed, May 4 2011
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