With the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it does.
I'm a little late on this (thanks to Eric Desfonds of Excelitas for the reminder this morning), but GEDI launched on Wednesday, Dec. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. It's being integrated on the International Space Station as I type these words.
Jim Pontius, the Goddard Space Flight Center's GEDI program manager, was kind enough…
I was hanging out at the YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park craft center a couple of weeks back, scrolling through emails as my daughters glued colorful glass shards to pale pine cigarette boxes, when an email came in. Subject line: A review of Jars to Stars.
We were outside at a picnic table, under a…
Items from the New Horizons launch press packet, which have been hanging out in a Southwest Research Institute folder for nine-and-a-half years.
You may have heard: NASA has a mission flying past Pluto tomorrow. New Horizons. The thing's been in space for nine-and-a-half years. I was there at the launch, covering it for the Boulder Daily Camera. Wrote…
The James Webb Space Telescope will orbit something called L2, discovered thanks to math in an era where only sheep (and a duck and a rooster) flew. (Courtesy NASA)
My 12-year-old daughter, as 12-year-old daughters do, asked me what's the use of math. I wrote a book about space engineers. Their work is the manifestation of math. I have…