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Kids do have amazing imaginations and some have equally remarkable artistic skills. If you can’t make it to the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton (Va.) to see the 2009 NASA Langley calendar art winners you can check them out here.
The grand prize winner was a picture (seen here) by ninth grader Tetyana Hollandsworth of Norfolk Collegiate School in Norfolk, Va.
Cool Ares photo …
Hardware is being fabricated at Langley prior to airlifting to Kennedy Space Center for flight test next year. Pictured is a major element of the Ares I-X Crew Module/Launch Abort System simulator. The elements will simulate the topmost parts of the Ares I-X, the rocket designed to demonstrate technologies for NASA’s next generation of crewed spacecraft. For high-resolution images click here. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
CNN’s Miles O’Brien (seen here when he did a broadcast from Langley a few years ago) is leaving CNN, because the cable network is disbanding its science, space and technology unit. (See story here)
I watched CNN and FOX news over the weekend when Endeavour landed. There was no comparison between O’Brien’s expertise and the reporter on FOX.
The news viewing public will be considerably less informed without his presence. Kathy Barnstorff
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
Langley photographer Sean Smith scores big with a photo of the Orion mockup in Time magazine!
Check it out here.
By Kathy Barnstorff
Usually when I go on vacation I try not to think about work all that often. I’m not always successful (as some of my co-workers will tell you), but I do try.
But recently I went out of my way to check out an aerospace exhibit I ran across … in Sydney, Australia! It was at the Powerhouse Museum on Harris Street near Darling Harbour. We went to the museum, because I thought it would interest my engineer husband and because it was unusually cold in Sydney (the coldest day in October in 35 years) and we were looking for something warm to do besides eat. It turned out I was probably more interested than he was!
There were airplanes, videos from astronauts, a mock up of parts of the interior of the International Space Station and a “spacewalking astronaut” suspended from the ceiling. Continue reading ‘NASA is everywhere!’
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