I managed to snag tickets to the Artemis I launch at the end of the month. I was a bit disappointed that I was not able to get tickets for the Saturn V viewing area. I’m still looking forward to the launch.…
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NASA has tentatively scheduled Artemis launch for August 29 with backup options on September 2nd and 5th. Those dates assume all goes well for the next month.
The current “no-earlier-than” planning date is Aug. 29, at 8:33 a.m. EDT, with backup dates available on Sept.…
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This morning when I reached for my watch on my nightstand, I was met with an unpleasant tactile experience. My watch face had come loose. I’d also noticed the LCD was “leaking” a bit at the top of the screen. I decided it was time to take it to the Apple Store for service.…
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According to several sources following troubles with the wes, Artemis I has a new launch window no earlier than (NET) August.
The first launch window for Artemis 1 is June 6-16; additional windows are open June 29-July 12 and July 26-August 9.https://earthsky.org/space/sls-rehearsal-scrubbed-artemis-likely-delayed/…
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I found myself this morning in a public location with my laptop and needing to do a bit of work. Typically I use my hotspot but the signal was not good. I checked for available wifi and found the guest network that matched my current waiting room.…
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In reviewing my analytics last week I spotted this little spike in traffic on one of my sites. I’ve actually been seeing this kind of spike on several of my sites for the last couple of months. There may be some correlation to current world events.…
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Now that SLS has crawled out to the launch pad we can calculate when she’ll launch, right. No exactly. The next step is a “wet test” where they fill the tanks with fuel to make sure nothing leaks or explode. Once that test happens next month the crawler will be called into service again to drag the stack back to the VAB.…
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Immense beauty of this free floating iceberg that has traveled down from the glacier and incorporated the volcanic layers along the way, in Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, East Iceland
I wish I didn’t even have to have Adobe Acrobat installed on my computer. I already have Preview for the Mac so I usually don’t need it. But every once in a while someone sends me a file with a .pdf…
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Seriously, how did I not know this movie existed? Last night I was looking at HBO’s list of what’s leaving this month and spotted “Countdown”, directed by Robert Altman, and starring Robert Duval and James Caan. So serious star power, a new director that would go on to make movies I love like M*A*S*H, and a topic that I find fascinating.…
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Artemis 1 is a planned uncrewed test flight for NASA’s Artemis program that is the first integrated flight of the agency’s Orion MPCV and Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.
The current “no-earlier-than” planning date is Aug. 29, at 8:33 a.m. EDT, with backup dates available on Sept.…
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Let’s say that you have consolidated multiple email addresses into your Gmail account. Great. Now you have all your email in one place. But sometimes you want to be able to send email using an alternate email address. The Gmail web client makes that easy.…
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STS-41-C launched on April 6, 1984. The mission marked the first direct ascent trajectory for the Space Shuttle;
Challenger reached its 288-nautical-mile-(533-km)-high orbit using its Orbiter Maneuvering System (OMS) engines only once, to circularize its orbit. During the ascent phase, the main computer in Mission Control failed, as did the backup computer.…
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