Category: Space Cadet (articles)
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I’VE BEEN A NASA FAN-BOY MY WHOLE LIFE, GOING BACK TO WATCHING THE FIRST ROCKET LAUNCHES ON TV IN THE EARLY 1960S.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW IMAGES I’VE PHOTOGRAPHED (STILLS AND VIDEO) IN CELEBRATION OF SPACE, SCIENCE, NERD CULTURE AND NASA.
![Video Fridays: What Astrophysicists Think About Aliens](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/What-Astrophysicists-Think-About-Aliens-2.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
I’ve actually run out of things to watch on YouTube a couple times over the past week. Given how much video ...
![Happy Eclipse Day, Muchachos](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-04-08-Latino-Solar-Eclipse.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
College of Southern Nevada, Dale Etheridge Planetarium. This morning I ventured out to my local community college ...
![Odysseus, IM-1 Lunar Lander Happening Today](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-22-IM-1-Intuitive-Machines-stream.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
A commercial lunar probe, Odysseus, will be landing on the moon today near the South Pole. Landing is currently ...
![Video Friday: The Astronomers (1991) PBS Documentary series](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the-astronomers-1991-01.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
I have a couple videos that have crossed my feeds that I’ve been wanting to share, but I’m leery about posting ...
![Today’s Memes & Thoughts for 2023-10-26](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-26-A-Revolutionary-New-Radio-Telescope-for-Nevada-by-Prof.-Hallinan-05.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Happy Thursday, y’all,... well, what’s left of it. The following is a collections of memes posted and related ...
![Meditation On: A Million Miles Away – Movie Reflection & Messages to Latin-Xs Who Aspire To The American Dream, Part 2](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2021-03-16-Cashman-Yearbook-staff-pic-01-selected.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
I don’t usually post about a movie more than once (except if it’s a classic...), but after watching A Million ...
![JBB’s DRP for 3/8/23: Women in Space](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/women-in-space-IFLscience-09.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
It’s great that NASA’s 2016 class of astronaut candidates selected were women. Obviously you want the most ...
![JBB’s DRP for 3/1/23: Beginning of Women’s History Month](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/women-in-science-IFLscience-02.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Does gender or race have anything to do with what a person might be capable of accomplishing? Should it be part of ...
![JBB’s DRP for 1/18/23: Small Steps, Repeated (Daily)](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/success-is-small-efforts-repeated.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
success is small efforts repeated - R. Collier
It seems to be true that one can accomplish huge things if you ...
![Video Fridays: Humans (2017)](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Humans-2017-Patrick-Ryder1.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
In this video, the woman finds a new friend and treats it with some respect and curiosity and they develop a ...
![JBB’s DRP for 11/30/22: Favorite Place: KSC](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-30-JBBs-DRP.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
For the next couple weeks I will be posting the Gratitude Journal prompts that are being given to my students and ...
![Video Fridays: Apollo 11 (2019) documentary and memories](https://i0.wp.com/joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/apollo-11-2019-1.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
My social feed this week has been flooded with references to the first landing of humans on the moon, now ...