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NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

Things have gotten really weird when comic books are verboten in this Orwellian present. NASA has deleted two comic books about women astronauts from all its websites, according to NASA Watch, the latest victim of the Trump’s administration’s purge of “DEI” content from federal agencies. This is apparently due to a directive sent out just […]

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Happy 60th birthday NASA!

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), created when President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (Public Law 85-568 or 72 Stat 426-2), began on this date in 1958. Check out some of the resources that NASA has put together to celebrate their 60 years. And if you really want to get into […]

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Check out NASA’s new searchable database of space pics and video!

NASA just made my day! The U.S. space agency launched a new web-based search engine for much of its catalog of images, video and audio files, browsable by keyword and metadata. All the content on the site is embeddable, and there are multiple resolutions to choose from for downloads. The site also shows image metadata, […]

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New NASA Visions of the Future Posters

The Verge reports that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory commissioned Seattle design firm Invisible Creature for a 2016 “Visions Of The Future” calendar that will be given to NASA staff, scientists, engineers, and government officials. JPL will also release digital copies of each month’s artwork for free. (Watch for them! Get the whole set!) 🙂 For […]

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Project Apollo Archive

All 12,588 photos taken during the Apollo missions are up on Flickr in high-res. Wow, endless hours of fascination if you’re a space geek! The Project Apollo Archive was created in 1999 as a companion to my “Contact Light” web site…a personal retrospective of the era of the space race. A subsequent collaboration between the […]

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