Juno to Jupiter on This Week @NASA
The successful liftoff of the Juno spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center begins a five-year cruise to the planet Jupiter to investigate the planet’s structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere. It will also provide detailed images of Jupiter’s surface and capture the first high-resolution views of its poles. Also, possible Martian water flows; Vesta’s new look; oxygen in space; and, Columbia debris. Plus, HQ crew visit; Russians spacewalk; SOFIA ambassadors; new Apollo 15 book; and dunk tank for food.
This Week in Space 11 – March 19, 2010
Astronomers get WISE to a mysterious class of space rocks lurking dangerously near Earth and only visible in the infrared, workers at the Kennedy Space Center race to troubleshoot a valve problem with Discovery in hopes of keeping her on track for launch,a string of comets take a death dive, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot gets the thermal imaging treatment, new views of the moons of Mars and Saturn, rover tracks on the moon, Bob Bigelow puts out the all-call for astronauts, the Shuttle Enterprise may be old but she’s apparently still up for a piggy back ride, shrimp on ice, and a helicopter crash only a dummy could survive.
This Week in Space 6 – February 12, 2010
The shuttle Endeavour delivers “windows on the world” to the International Space Station, aftershocks from the Obama Administration’s budget bombshell rattle NASA, prospects for a shuttle program extension – while remote – live on, the Solar Dynamics Observatory soaks up the sun, SpaceX gets ready to light the candle on Falcon 9, and Hubble/ESA/the European Southern Observatory wow us with some new out-of-this-world pictures.
This Day In History Of The Walt Disney World Resort December 22nd & 23rd
December 22nd & 23rd, a quick look back at events on these days at the Orlando Florida theme park.
Categories: Cirque du Soleil - La Nouba Tags: 22nd, 23Rd, December, Disney, History, Resort, This, Walt, World
Voices of Liberty – This Land is Your Land
Voices of Liberty at Epcot singing “This Land is Your Land” featuring John (tenor solo) and Chrystal (alto solo).
WDW Trip 2: This Time… 1B
Our heroines survive a night and morning on the train, hit up Downtown Disney, and look into Universal’s Islands of Adventure.
Categories: Downtown Disney Tags: This, time, Trip
This Week in Space – August 7, 2010
Space station repairs run into trouble, NASA budget makes slow progress through Congress, Commerce Secretary visits shuttle workers, retirement homes for the shuttle, Ariane 5 launch and more.