A hurricane, high crosswinds at the landing site, a nitrogen leak, and two damaged tiles. Watch the shuttle land live on NASA TV.
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Posted August 21, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: Endeavour, landing, manned spaceflight, nasa, NASA TV, space shuttle, space shuttle Endeavour, STS-118. Be the first one.

Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post wonders if PowerPoint is a killing app. She’s not the first to note that NASA administrators make decisions — sometimes fatal decisions — on the basis of PowerPoint presentations that mask or misrepresent details. I wrote about Edward Tufte’s Cognitive Style of PowerPoint essay in a previous post. Marcus [...]

Posted September 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: cognitive style, dyn, edward tufte, insidious, killer app, nasa, nasa administrators, perils, powerpoint presentations, powerpoint sounds, rocket scientist, ruth marcus. 7 Comments.

From the NASA website:
EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 Angstroms the bright material is at 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin. In those taken at 171, at 1 million degrees. 195 Angstrom images correspond to about [...]

Posted August 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: 1 million degrees kelvin, blue, bright material, corona, degrees kelvin, extreme ultraviolet imaging, hot, hot air, hot gas, nasa, solar, solar material, solar satellite, sun, the sun, ultraviolet. Be the first one.

Google engineers have got the moon on their minds lately. We all got a laugh at their April Fools Day lunar hosting and research center job opening, but they’ve done themselves one better and several points more serious with Google Moon. Sure, it’s in celebration of the first lunar landing 36 years ago today, but [...]

Posted July 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology, Travel. Tags: 1969, anniversary, apollo 11, google, landing sites, lunar landing, may 20, may 20 1969, moon, moon landing, moon map, nasa. 19 Comments.