March 25, 2012

Discovering Discovery

The week of April 16th, there will be just one destination for followers of spaceflight and aviation in general: Washington, D.C.  Why? The arrival and public […]
March 1, 2012

We are the Explorers…

Sometimes you just need inspiration. It’s too easy to become bogged down in the world of hardware, calculation, budgets. Too easy to lose sight of the […]
February 10, 2012

We’ve got to get in to get out…

The line above from a Genesis song on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway could be describing an amazing project that resulted in a tremendous scientific […]
February 7, 2012

Feeding the Webb

Crunching budget numbers. It’s the decidedly unglamorous aspect of spaceflight, but it sets the parameters of what NASA can and can’t do. Right now we’re on […]