Video Thursday – Auroras
One sees lots of strange sights flying at night, but one of the most beautiful and mysterious displays are the polar auroras. Aurora Borealis in the northern latitudes and Aurora Australis in the southern latitudes.
Tag Archives: International Space Station
Video Thursday Salute To The Space Program
Shuttle Atlantis has now landed back on American soil and for the present future no Americans will return to space from our homeland. Mission control is shutting down and laying off 900 workers. The future is in question, but hopefully our heritage and legacy will force us to return to space where the future of [...]
Video Thursday 7.15.11 Salute To The Space Shuttle!
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas The Space Shuttle was born on 05 January 1972, when President Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable Space Shuttle system. The [...]
April is the month for Fly-bys! First ISS and then space shuttle Discovery! Blue Angels are next!
Not only are the Blue Angels going to fly over and around the Yorktown at Patriots Point this month…on Monday morning we had an amazing sight viewable from the flight deck of Yorktown. At 6:05 AM the International Space Station (ISS) appeared low on the horizon at 180 degrees (South) and rose in the sky [...]