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Space Camp with Shelby


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Shelby just finished a full week at Space Camp, and provides narration for this video recorded by her Uncle David. We are naturally quite proud of her.
Good job Shelby ! - and thanks Dave for the movie ..!..
/;^)

2008 Vernal Equinox


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Beautiful photo of spring equinox sunrise in Arizona by Joe Orman.
Please visit the NASA APOD site for the full details of this shot.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010330.html 

FM satellites


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Saturday I was trying to get an APRS beacon setup at MSFC to work thru the ISS digital repeater. I knew that with the upcoming joint Ops with Atlantis, the crew would have the ham gear shut down at least during the EVAs. I figured a beacon would get on the map, and stay on […]

Meteo-roids


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Late last week I got this email from WB5RMG :

Where are they now ?


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Thanks to our friends at Heavens Above, we have …

This neat little image shows us where the International Space Station is. It does not update automatically, you need to reload or refresh the page every so often - they are only going about 17,500 miles per hour. Each orbit takes about 90 minutes. […]

Soyuz-15S launches to ISS


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The launch of Soyuz-15S marks the beginning of ISS Expedition 16.
Read more about Exp-16 on the NASA website. After a week or so on station, this Soyuz will return to earth completing the Russian crew rotation and ending Expedition 15.
On October 23 the Discovery orbiter will carry the STS-120 crew to orbit, […]

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