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Buzz Aldrin on Dancing with the Stars: Week 1
This past Monday night Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin appeared as a contestant on the ABC television program
"He walked on the Moon. Now let's see what those feet can do on Earth."
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is about to add another line to his resume when he appears on the television program,
Gorilla seen in Nasa Snap from Mars? Umm....no.
Yes, I'm totally not kidding, that is the headline in the Sun:
Your chance to shoot your own high-resolution pictures of Mars
The HiRISE public suggestion tool, called HiWish, is a Web site that allows you to log in and select a spot on Mars as a suggestion for where the HiRISE instrument should take an image.
Report #1 from the New Horizons Science Team Meeting
The New Horizons science team is meeting this week. Ted Stryk was invited to attend the meeting, and he sent the following notes from the first day.
Happy Christmas on Mars!
This was so cute I had to repost it -- and record it too.
If Earth had rings
I am the very last space blogger in the universe to post about this video, but that doesn't make it any less cool.
Be a Martian!
I think the new
Happy Halloween!
Enjoy tonight's nearly-full Moon! I couldn't resist posting these snapshots that Alice Wessen took of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's costume contest.
Climb Aboard Apollo 11 Time Machine
Grab your bell bottoms and Tang, and travel back to 1969 when Apollo 11's journey to the Moon captivated the world, and Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's boot prints in the lunar dust transformed us into a multi-world species.
The Martian Craters Asimov and Danielson
The Martian Craters Asimov and Danielson
Celebrate Apollo 11's 40th Anniversary with the Crew
This summer, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. will commemorate that extraordinary moment in history with a very special Apollo 11 celebration, featuring the mission's original crew members along with former Johnson Space Center Director Chris Kraft.
"Moon?"
It's a legal holiday here in the U.S. (President's day), and my daughter's babysitter is taking the day off, so I won't be getting much work done today. But I thought I'd check in to share the fact that, as we got out of the car last week, my daughter pointed up in the sky at the crescent moon and said
Have a happy day on Mars
I thought this was a fun image to kick off the weekend. This isn't the first happy-looking crater to be photographed from Mars, but I really like this one; it's more goofy.
Teeny little Bigfoot on Mars
The story of a Sasquatch-shaped rock visible in a recent panorama from Spirit is getting a lot of play in the mainstream media, but fortunately, it's not being taken very seriously. (My favorite take on this picture is the lead from the Times Online story about it:
Mars Science Laboratory is going to be HUGE
Yesterday I deposited the baby with her grandmother and went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a press junket to the opening of their new Mars Yard.
5...4...3...2...1...1...Happy New Year!
Read that title aloud. Yes, the last minute of 2005 is actually 61 seconds long.
A fun picture for holiday travel
A fun NASA explainer just crossed my email inbox and I thought I'd share it.
Rockin' to Bill Haley and his Comets
There was a stage set up on the steps of the administration building, and the quad in front of it was filled with JPLers of all ages and descriptions. Rick Grammier and Don Yeomans introduced the band -- five guys, all members of the band since 1953 or earlier, still rockin' and rollin'.
"Mars Spectacular!"
Apparently there is a bogus email circulating around the Web with the following text: