December 8, 2007

Spaceflight Headlines

Just look at all the stupid space related things going on. And to think we pay taxes for such stupid stuff. What is it, 1/13th of 1 percent of the budget? Pork Barrel! If people would just learn to not do anything there wouldn't be such waste. We all know what's in space. Nothing but dead rocks. And it's boring!

NASA shoots for Sunday launch of shuttle Atlantis
Saturn's small moons tell the story of their origins
Spacecraft reveals new insights into solar wind
Supercomputer simulation to help find missing matter
JWST testing to find infrared light
Hubble shows how white dwarfs get their 'kicks'
Radiation flashes may help crack cosmic mystery
Atlantis astronauts arrive for start of countdown
Embryonic star captured with jets flaring
Black hole record shattered
Satellite probes warming from sun during solar cycle
Engineers troubleshoot possible station air leak
Mars Express: First global map of martian ionosphere
Inside nurseries of miniature planet systems
Voyager 2 to reach major milestone in space
A breakthrough map of Antarctica from space
Spacewalkers find more damage in solar array joint
Astronomers say moons like ours are uncommon
New light on early formation of Earth and Mars
Stars discovered with pure carbon atmospheres
Spacewalkers connect power, cooling for Harmony
Atlantis crew flies to Cape for practice countdown
Swedish communications satellite launched
Hubble zooms in on heart of mysterious Comet Holmes
Planets found forming in Pleiades star cluster
Groundbreaking for pad to test Orion's launch abort
Harmony module put in place aboard station
Spitzer telescope spies a stellar bubble blower
Discovery departs the station after hectic visit
Shuttle and station crews bid an emotional farewell
China's moon expedition swoops into lunar orbit
NASA hails solar array repair as complete success
Comet Holmes continues to dazzle astronomers
Risky spacewalk planned to save mangled solar array

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, totally boring. Yawn. ;-)

Keith said...

Well at least, every once in a while, we get some good stuff, like astronaut love triangles. Publicity stunts!

Frankie said...

yeah no kiddding... people always want to cut the few things that government actually needs to spend on, and refuses to cut all the pork that congressmen inject... NASA's budget is a perfect example: look at what the NASA administrator had to say about all of the pet projects in the NASA budget that had nothing to do with NASA!!
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-06-11-nasa-pork_x.htm

Anonymous said...

Caleb's class has a field trip to NASA next week...not sure what there is to see there but jus sum dirty ol' moon rocks..?!

Keith said...

Astronauts doing the Macarena. That is all I ever see.