I posted two things over at CSpace this morning. As I was adding a few things (via news references) to my wishlist (not to mention totally wanting this book), I had a sudden epiphany. CSpace completely, utterly changed my (disinterested, for a large part of 2006) attitude towards spaceflight. I had a bookcase and a [...]

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A large article at CommonSpace today (and a smaller addendum to the first post I made there, good news… as opposed to the big article which is… meh news.) Also am selling a Ribon Festa Full Moon wo Sagashite poster, minty fresh, in terrific condition. For Izumi fans. ;)
Having a good work day, for a [...]

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I’m quiet about it online, but I’m a huge fan of Martha Stewart, so when I found that she’d talked to the onboard crew of the ISS last week, I was delighted. Presented for your review, my article about food and décor in orbit. I’ve also officially soft-launched CommonSpace, although I have in NO WAY [...]

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Ann Druyan gives a moving, personal tribute to her late husband, in honor of the tenth anniversary of his death. I grew up on Cosmos — I still have the original, dog-eared copy of the book my parents owned. I used to draw Saturn V rockets and Ganymede from that book, when I was little. [...]

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I was thinking of this as reprioritization, but as I started to write this post I realized it wasn’t priorities at all. Orbital came to represent something in my head that flat-out pissed me off: uppity space advocates. I can’t tell you how many times I would read a (decent, level-headed) post at the Space [...]

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I’m not going to attempt to trace the tortured electronic path I followed to get to the following link, but while researching a moon conference, I thought to look for info on the next Lunar and Planetary Science Conference when I found the new LPI Summer Intern Alumni page at LPI’s website. Here I am, [...]

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I got up at 7 am and watched the CNN coverage of the STS 114 launch of shuttle Discovery, which was fantastic. The video footage from the external tank cam was absolutely amazing, stuff nobody has ever seen before in the history of shuttle launches. Jon and I sat watching the external tank separate from [...]

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