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How Awesome is Hubble? (Answer: So Awesome)
Posted by jasoncross in Science on October 1, 2009
Back in May, NASA sent a crew of astronauts to the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. STS-125 was an amazingly complex and risky mission, but also a smashing success. The crew fixed what wasn’t working and installed a bunch of new sensors and cameras and whoozits and whatchma-bobs. It took some months to test and calibrate and make sure everything was working, but we’re now getting back some new images from the greatest telescope ever built. And they’re awesome.
Photos from the USS Hornet
Posted by jasoncross in San Francisco, Science on September 12, 2009
The USS Hornet is a WWII-era aircraft carrier that has the distinction of being the ship that collected the Apollo 11 module after splashdown. It’s now a permanent museum docked in Oakland.
I recently attended a press event aboard the ship, and snapped a few photos along the way. The best way to view them is on my flickr page, so you can grab the full-sized images if you want. There’s some neat stuff in there. The painted footprints are Neil Armstrong’s first steps after getting back aboard the ship – his first steps “on earth” after walking around on the moon. The command module you see is similar to, but not the same one used on Apollo 11 (the Apollo 11 module, CSM-107, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum).
Go check out the set, let me know what you think. There are only 8 photos (I won’t bore you with shots of 24 monitors running from a single PC and so on).
Fourth of July
Posted by jasoncross in San Francisco on July 5, 2009
It was quite foggy this 4th of July – the third time it has been “fogged out” in the five years I’ve been in San Francisco. So Annie and I went up on top of our apartment building and watched the fireworks from there.
Because of the hills, the buildings were partially in the way and only the ones that went up really high could be seen. The ones that went up really high got partially obscured by the low fog, though. Still, it was pretty neat and I took some pictures. Check ‘em out on my flickr page.
Fireworks over the buildings in SF