State & Lake

Only because I love this photograph of Endeavor atop its limo over the Mojave Desert.  First, as planned, Endeavor did leave Edwards last Wednesday.  Second, it did not make it to Florida on Thursday as desired or planned, it actually arrived on Friday.  Bottom line, it’s home and darn the bad luck, I didn’t get [...]

This has been a very busy week for me, so much so I missed out on all of the fun.  Apparently, we had a few shakers and I was just too busy to either notice or enjoy them.  Oh boo.
The good news is at least these little shakers are relieving some stress and hopefully — [...]

Space shuttle Endeavor has been parked at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center since its arrival on November 30.  Plans were to have the shuttle readied for its piggyback flight home to Kennedy this past Sunday.  Unfortunately, installing the flight tail cone caused a bit of a snag in plans which delayed the shuttle’s flight Sunday [...]

I’m not interested in all things space or NASA related, just the shuttle program, those cute little land rovers on Mars and the Phoenix Mars Lander, which is now sleeping.
The space shuttle program is my favorite and I love those little ugly gliders that look thrown together like pillows or dolls made from scrap material [...]

Dr. Morgan Page, of the USGS takes questions on today’s earthquake.  One question came from San Diego:
San Diego, Calif.: Did the quake occur on the San Andreas fault?
Dr. Morgan Page: No, the San Andreas fault is further east. This earthquake occurred near 2 smaller faults, the Whittier Fault and the Chino Fault. We aren’t [...]

There was a lot of activity around JPL recently. Didn’t know what was going on until Friday when I learned the Phoenix Mars Lander was headed for the Seven Minutes of Terror.
The Phoenix Mars Lander, which launched in August 2007, is the first project in NASA’s Mars Scout missions. The mission’s plan is to [...]