WEEKLY BLOG 19 | CHEESECAKE AND SPACE TRAVEL
How was your week? Good? Hard going? Pretty much the same as every one of the last eight weeks? Yea, mine too… I’m like a stuck record – I work hard at my day job, eat, sleep badly, eat some … Continued
WEEKLY BLOG EPISODE 06 | THE GRACE OF AN ELEPHANT
The only problem with having a week off and a lovely holiday in Tenerife (did you read last week’s weekly blog?), is that you have to get back to reality afterwards. With Sunday spent unpacking and hiding from Storm Ciara … Continued
STS-135 Comes Home and Ends Shuttle Programme
Later today Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-135, will land and mark the end of the NASA Space Shuttle programme. There are two scheduled landing times, the first is 10.56 BST (09.56 GMT, when Atlantis will glide into our atmosphere and land … Continued
Endeavour Launches on it's Final Mission
At lunch time today (well lunch time in the UK anyway), people from all over the world watched as another history was made. STS-134 successfully launched into the skies above Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Endeavour, which was built to … Continued
Space Shuttle Launch – Today
Just in case you’re a bit late to the party, it’s the final launch of NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour today. STS-134 (Endeavour) will launch at 1.56pm UK time. You can watch the launch live on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html I’ve mentioned … Continued
Snow from NASAs POV
I just got sent this photo and HAD to share it with you… It’s from the MODIS Rapid Response System (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and shows the snow across Great Britain yesterday (7th January). Just wow!