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November 26, 2009
In A Win For Uppercase Letters (AWFUL), the NASA Public Affairs Office (PAO) has agreed acronyms should be capitalized even if they spell a word, if […]
November 26, 2009
Last night I saw the space station followed by the space shuttle about 10 seconds later. They were easily visible from my house in Los Angeles. […]
November 6, 2009
This week the WISE science team had a meeting at the launch site, Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, CA, a city known for flowers, rockets […]
October 30, 2009
October 8, 2009
Worldview 2 just launched from SLC-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. WISE is scheduled to follow in 60 days on Dec 7. Since 60 days is […]
August 22, 2009
WISE held a management team meeting at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Friday Aug 21. So I drove the 145 miles (230 km) from UCLA up […]
August 19, 2009
As Amy noted, WISE shipped out on August 12, and it arrived safely at Vandenberg on Friday August 14.
August 13, 2009
Last night I got up at 3:45 AM and went out to the hammock in my LA backyard. In five minutes I saw one Perseid meteor, […]
July 29, 2009
Last night I saw the space shuttle (STS-127) followed by the space station (ISS) at about 20:48 PDT from my backyard. The shuttle led the station […]