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  • 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: "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: Phobos-Grunt’s failure

    Bill Andrews
    It seems Russia just can’t catch a break, at least as far as Mars is concerned. Its latest venture to the Red Planet, the Phobos-Grunt probe, has stalled out in Earth orbit almost certainly dead, and it’ll probably crash back to our planet. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx...
    on Tue, Nov 29 2011

  • Blog Post: Look to the skies

    Bill Andrews
    These are exciting times for skywatchers. First, we’ll have a celestial guest in the form of asteroid 2005 YU55 , which will slip in between Earth and the Moon tomorrow but presents no danger to us at all . It’ll be some 200,000 miles (320,000 kilometers) away at its closest approach, so...
    on Mon, Nov 7 2011

  • Blog Post: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a satellite!

    Bill Andrews
    I’m sure this is probably unnecessary advice for many of Astronomy magazine’s readers, but make sure to look up this Friday. That’s when NASA has calculated its 20-year-old Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) should reenter Earth’s atmosphere . The odds that it hits someone...
    on Thu, Sep 22 2011

  • Blog Post: American spaceflight’s impact on the “Space Coast”

    Karri Ferron
    The landing of space shuttle Atlantis July 21, 2011, marked the end of a great achievement in American spaceflight; it also left an uncomfortable feeling of a great unknown. With the cancellation of the Constellation Program — NASA’s next-generation human spaceflight plan — how would...
    on Tue, Sep 20 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-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: IceHunters: Find a space mission’s final target

    Karri Ferron
    The Zooniverse (the group behind Galaxy Zoo, Moon Zoo, and other citizen science projects) is bringing people around the world another opportunity to participate in astronomy research. This time, though, it comes with an even more exciting potential result: influencing a space mission. [caption image...
    on Tue, Jun 28 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

  • Blog Post: NASA: Please keep delaying STS-134

    Chris Raymond
    Last June, I shared my excitement about submitting a photo of the Astronomy magazine staff to NASA’s “Face in Space” website so we could vicariously fly aboard space shuttle Endeavor on STS-134, the final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program. At the time, that flight was scheduled...
    on Tue, Apr 5 2011

  • Blog Post: Great images of Discovery’s final liftoff

    Michael Bakich
    Astronomy magazine contributor Allen Fredrickson has attended a lot of space shuttle launches. For several recent ones, he has acted as a press correspondent for Astronomy . He returned to Kennedy Space Center in Florida February 24 to witness space shuttle Discovery ’s 39th and final launch. During...
    on Fri, Mar 11 2011

  • Blog Post: Happy Birthday Pluto(’s discovery)

    Bill Andrews
    In this illustration, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft approaches its far off destination, the Pluto system. Today marks the 80th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery, and New Horizons just a month ago marked its 4th year in space. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research...
    on Thu, Feb 18 2010

  • Blog Post: To the Moon

    Dick McNally
    I’m old enough to remember when, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would land an American on the Moon by the end of the decade. The 1960s were difficult years, with the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother Robert as well as the Rev. Martin Luther...
    on Tue, Feb 2 2010
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