Sonic Boom Meets Sun Dog
February 22, 2010 by joe.bustillos
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Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch, Feb 11, 2010 HD SHORT VERSION WITH SLOW MOTION A sun dog is a prismatic bright spot in the sky caused by sun shining through ice crystals. The Atlas V rocket exceeded the speed of sound in this layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground. The announcer can be heard in the video saying, “The vehicle is now supersonic.”
Little Black Spots on the Sun Today
August 9, 2009 by joe.bustillos
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Images: Thierry Legault
My favorite crazy photo of the past week is by French photographer Thierry Legault, who captured the space shuttle Endeavor docked to the International Space Station as the pair flew in orbit with the Sun in the background. Thanks to Wired Science for the heads-up via Twitter.For more of Mr. Legault’s photograph go to Astrophotography.
Sources:
image:ISS-Endeavour-transit by Thierry Legault, http://legault.club.fr/iss_endeavour_transit.html retrieved on 7/30/2009
Article: Photo: Docked Space Shuttle and Station Cross the Sun by Alexis Madrigal for Wired Science, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/suntransit/?mbid=wir_newsltr retrieved on 7/30/2009
Share this Post[?] Buzz Aldrin & Snoop: Word!
July 2, 2009 by joe.bustillos
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Launch of LCROSS/LRO
June 20, 2009 by joe.bustillos
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Didn’t drive out to the cape for this launch (two prior shuttle launches had been cancelled in the past two weeks). Co-worker quipped, “I’m really glad that you’re not into this NASA stuff.” Ha! Hello, this launch is one of the first steps to our return to the moon. Been a space-cadet my whole life. Ack
My images of the launch:
Sideways Rain or “Why There Was No Double-Sonic-Boom in FL Today”
December 2, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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Rain beating against my bedroom window, stormwarnings playing on the TV in the background. It did get heavier. Crazy. It was bad enough that NASA decided to redirect the Space Shuttle Endeavor to land in CA. Damn.
Share this Post[?] Streaming NASA.TV
November 18, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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I love this stuff. I wanted to put a streaming viewer of the ongoing Endeavor mission on my blog and remembered that a video podcaster was doing this via Ustream. I’d used this source last Spring when I watched the landing of the Mars Phoenix lander. Funny that there was nothing available directly from NASA but that this video podcaster was taking the NASA stream and making it available using the Ustream.tv embed viewer. I love this stuff. jbb
Launch of the Shuttle Endeavor Part 3 – 7:55 PM ET
November 17, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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Wow, that happened way 2 fast. Leaving the parking area is going 2 take much longer than Endeavor’s 1st orbit. Video 2 follow. 08:20 PM November 14, 2008 from Twinkle
Share this Post[?] Launch of the Shuttle Endeavor Part 2 – Waiting for the Launch
November 17, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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Some folks watch a NASA documentary and fall asleep with five-seconds of the first acronym. My buddy Dan is one of those guys. We’d just started the Astronaut Hall of Fame tour and as much as he wanted to be there for the launch the first video we watched made him groan. I had no idea how we were going to do with the five-hour wait for the launch itself. Here’s my twitter rendition of the wait:
* Camped out @ Astronaut Hall of Fame waiting 4 Endeavor launch. Next time need lawn chairs. Picnic b4 launch http://snipurl.com/5hi61 4:04 PM Nov 14th from Twinkle
* Shuttle video play-by-play on big screen stuttered, then they switched 2 tape. Hope my twittering didn’t tax the network 4:07 PM Nov 14th from Twinkle
* Next time, besides lawn chairs, need backpack full of food & drink, also need to bring my Nintendo DS. Or maybe a book. Nah,definitely my DS 4:14 PM Nov 14th from Twinkle
Here’s my video version of this part of the event:
Share this Post[?] Launch of the Shuttle Endeavor Part 1 – Astronaut Hall of Fame Tour
November 17, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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One of the first things that I knew that I wanted to do when I decided to move to Florida was to attend the launch of a space shuttle. I really should have gotten my feet wet in this area back during the summer before my course started but it just didn’t happen. Then I read in ArsTechnica that there were only 10 more shuttle missions left before NASA would end the program on May 31, 2010. I definitely needed to make the pilgrimage to the Kennedy Space Center. Of course if I was going to make the trip I’m going to do more than just show up and watch the launch, thus the Astronaut Hall of Fame Tour (Kennedy Space Center tours are closed on launch days). jbb
Mars Phoenix Lander Farewell
November 13, 2008 by joe.bustillos
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I knew someone had to put together a video of clips from the Mars Phoenix short life… I’m not one to anthropomorphize my own computers or gadgets but when I got my first “tweet” from the lander I was touched in a way that went past scientific curiosity:
- parachute is open!!!!! 7:50 PM May 25th from web
- come on rocketssssss!!!!! 7:53 PM May 25th from web
- I’ve landed!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7:54 PM May 25th from web
- Cheers! Tears!! I’m here! 7:55 PM May 25th from web
- Now.. I still have some other milestones ahead. Solar panels will open in 15 minutes after the dust has settled here. 7:56 PM May 25th from web
MarsPhoenix whole tweet record listed below (remember it goes from oldest on the bottom to newest on the top). I didn’t realize that the tweets began twenty days before the landing).
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