STS-130, originally uploaded by plemeljr
Check out photos of STS-130 and Shuttle Endeavour.
Don’t forget: I’m going to interview astronauts on Wednesday. Follow along on twitter or on this page.
Tag: NASA
Space Shuttle Concepts
Concept, originally uploaded by Flying Jenny
Check out some of these Space Shuttle Concepts from a fellow NASA Tweetup attendee.
Smogr Invited to STS-130 Tweetup at Johnson Space Center
In two weeks I will be joining the STS-130 Tweetup at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. This will coincide with STS-130 (wikipedia page) – the Space Shuttle flight to the International Space Station which will deliver and install the Tranquility module and the Cupola.
Hopefully I will be able to bring to you live video, but the morning will be livecast on ustream at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-television, and you can follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/nasatweetup/jsc-sts-130-tweetup.
I’m going to try to do a combination of livecasting through ustream, twitter updates, and a flickr page. I think I might even make a standalone page combining all of that so it will be easy to find. More details to follow.
Question: what would you like to see?
Greg.org Discovers the Satelloons Of Project Echo
From about 1956 until 1964, US aeronautics engineers and rocket scientists at the Langley Research Center developed a series of spherical satellite balloons called, awesomely enough, satelloons. Dubbed Project Echo, the 100-foot diameter aluminumized balloons were one of the inaugural projects for NASA, which was established in 1958.
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I’ve highlighted some of the aesthetic or non-scientific elements from Hansen’s long, somewhat rambling but detailed chapter on Program Echo to make a point. Or more accurately, to pose a challenge. In the art world, thanks in no small part to Duchamp, we privilege intentionality above all; anything–even the most mundane or found object, situation, and action–is art if the artist declares it to be so. But nothing else.
Greg.org (awesomely) Discovers the Satelloons Of Project Echo and then discusses where to install said Satelloons.
Go. Read. Now.
