Okay so I’m behind on the “breaking news” front. I’ve always been a procrastinator. And, I’m not a huge country music fan. I mean, I like a lot of country groups, have a lot of favorite songs that are country, but I don’t really follow any group or artist closely, so this shocked me when [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2009
Balloon Boy…
So, Thursday October 15th, I was reading CNN.com, as I usually do each day, and perusing the day’s comments on Twitter, and along comes this breaking story about a 6 year old boy who was trapped in a home-made hot air balloon, which accidentally broke away from the ground and was soaring seven thousand feet [...]
Top Ten Places Where Life Shouldn’t Exist… But Does
I’m always amazed when new species of life are discovered. Maybe I shouldn’t be, I mean, while man has thoughtlessly ravaged so much of our Earth, there should be at least some places still undiscovered, and it goes without saying that there would be life in those areas. But as man’s foray into more and [...]
Expedition 20 Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
After 199 days in space, Michael Barratt and Gennady Padalka have safely returned to Earth. Expedition 20 landed in Kazakhstan on October 11, at 12:32 a.m. EDT. Padalka has spent 586 days in space over the course of three flights, which puts him sixth on all time list. Sergei Krikalev has the most time in [...]
ISS Expedition 20 Wrapping up
The International Space Station is getting ready to change crews, officially. While an unofficial “Change of Command” ceremony was held earlier today, Frank De Winne will officially become the Expedition 21 commander Saturday when Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt undock from the station from the Soyuz TMA-14 later tonight.
They will say farewell [...]
LCROSS – NASA smashing satellite into the Moon!
After several months of orbiting the moon, taking images, examining sites, and sending data back to NASA, the two satellites that were launched on June 18, 2009 will finish their mission by crashing into the surface of the moon.
On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate. The Centaur will act as a [...]
My Guilty Pleasure
The whole “reality TV” craze I never have understood. I guess, from what I read, that it all started with some show called “Survivor” (which I’ve never seen) and at first, I didn’t really notice reality shows, they were few and far between.
But, now everything has changed. Every night there is some sort of [...]
