by Sandy Eulitt | Jul 29, 2013 | Extrasolar Planets, Space News
The wildly successful Kepler mission, launched in 2009 and which, to date, has found nearly 3000 extrasolar planet candidates, suffered the loss of a second reaction wheel this past spring. Beginning a couple weeks ago, engineers, working very closely with Ball...
by Sandy Eulitt | Jul 29, 2013 | Space History and People, Space News
While Buzz Aldrin was in South Orange County, California last week for the 44th anniversary of the Moon landing, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, “revealed that one of the mighty engines he recovered from the oceans earlier this year is from the Apollo 11 mission.”...
by Sandy Eulitt | Jul 23, 2013 | Space News, Telescopes and Missions
Sagittarius points the way to Galaxy Center’s Supermassive Black Hole Many people don’t know it, but a supermassive black hole exists at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. If you’re in an area where you can see it, step outside tonight after dark,...
by Sandy Eulitt | Jul 12, 2013 | Space News, Telescopes and Missions
On June 8, the magazine SPACE (6/8, Howell) reported about a proposed 77-meter Colossus telescope. I think the very first thing to do here is to attempt to put this into perspective. Currently, the largest ground-based telescopes in operation are the joint 10 meter...
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 9, 2012 | Space History and People
Today we are wishing a very speedy recovery to our of the nation’s Space Superheroes: Neil Armstrong. Neil is famously private. I guess all that publicity from the Apollo Moon landing has made him want to stay out of the limelight. So it was with great surprise...
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 5, 2012 | Archive, Space News, Telescopes and Missions
So unbelievably excited to be sitting here on this Sunday night, watching NASA web site and waiting for Curiosity to land. Watched an interview with Lori Garver a little while ago. Have you seen the, “Seven Minutes of Terror,” video? Really amazing...