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A Shuttle for Houston

Submitted by LucieD_inthesky on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 17:58

For the past several years, I've been trying to find ways to motivate myself to write more. My mother was a writer, and always told me, write about what you know. I've also been in the space business, as a technical editor, among other duties, for several years. My biggest issue with writing for space is writer's block; I think it plagues most writers, at one time or another. This is also why my entry below is actually being reposted, because it came to me so naturally at the time.

Along with that, there are plenty of times I've written things, and never had the nerve to publish them. Sometimes it's difficult to find the right time or place to even do so. But lately, it seems like everyone needs some good news, wherever and whenever they find it. A year ago Christmas, we had the chance to post our thoughts online on JSC Features. That day was very special to me, and I do believe in my heart, there are more special ones in front of all of us in the space business.

From JSC Features, December 2008:

Passing On History

Submitted by Jazifer on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 17:26

Several people have asked me recently what I think of the cancellation of the Constellation programme. I’ll leave the debate around the public versus private sector involvement in manned spaceflight, and the technical and scientific details, up to those whose job it is to argue those cases. I’m not going to give any analysis on how to deliver what has been asked of the space community, nor how to fund it. My take is somewhat different.

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Photographer/Historian

Submitted by dmbrownphoto on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 04:37

Professional Photographer, Writer and Historian

Shot the launch of STS-129 Nov. 16th, 2009

Author of new Book "A Fire In The Sky" the history of Project Mercury. Due out this Spring from Odyssey Books.

Identity

Last Name:

Brown

First Name:

David M.

Education:

North Western Branch, Miesau, Germany Franklin University, Columbus, OH

Occupation:

Professional Photographer Writer Historian

STS-120, my first space launch

Submitted by amoroso on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:53

Crowd viewing the STS-120 launch at the KSC VIP site

Two years ago today, on October 23, 2007, I earned my space enthusiast wings: I viewed the launch of the STS-120 Shuttle mission at Kennedy Space Center.

It all started in late July when ESA astronaut and STS-120 crew member Paolo Nespoli, of Italian nationality, invited some friends and me to view his launch at KSC. We had met him in previous years, when he took part to outreach events at the planetarium of Milan, the largest in Italy, for which we work. He was also going to fly a small flag with our planetarium logo onboard Discovery (item 70 in the STS-120 Official Flight Kit Manifest).

Old Birds

Submitted by flight0001 on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 07:11

Enterprise, Gemini and Mercury capsules at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Shuttle Fan

Submitted by manumazzanti on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 11:32

Marketing guy with 5 years of Astronomy studies who always wanted to be an astronaut.

Identity

Last Name:

Mazzanti

First Name:

Manuel

Education:

Marketing Astronomy Physics

Occupation:

Marketing Director US & Latam starMedia / Orange

Website:

http://www.twitter.com/manumazzanti

Get-there-itis

Submitted by flyingjenny on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 00:11

After yesterday’s launch scrub for STS-127 due to weather, I was listening in on some of NASA’s press conference on NASA TV. One of the reporters asked about the weather criteria, if they were perhaps too strict now that we have more advanced methods of assessing weather conditions than we did when the criteria was developed, or something to that effect.

Why can’t we allow our heroes to be heroes?

Submitted by fizzviic on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 00:09

AMERICAN MEN AND WOMAN HAVE NO BUSINESS FLYING IN SPACE!

There, I’ve said it. And in case you missed it, I’ll say it again. American men and women have no business flying in space. I fully expect an upwelling of outrage on the part of some for saying this, yet it is, at least to me, painfully obvious

Before you hit the “baleet” button, hear me out.

My Story

Submitted by absolutspacegrl on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 21:37

This will probably be one of my very few blog posts here, at least for a little while. I just wanted to tell my story…I’ve been trying to help out, moderating and the like, but reading everyone else’s stories…it’s hard to just sit back and not participate.

I joined Twitter in December of 2007 hoping to score a Nintendo Wii via mobile alerts. I did, and didn’t pay much more attention to it until Hurricane Ike in September 2008. I posted updates of my evacuation plans to all of my 2 or 3 followers, and didn’t visit again until STS-119. For some reason I got a wild hair and thought people might be interested in what I do, so during that mission I posted updates.

Preposterous

Submitted by flyingjenny on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 19:17

If you didn’t see it already, our friend and fellow space tweep @milesobrien did a great job in his post defending shuttle workers today. It is just too bad that we even needed defending. Apparently a reporter at WESH (Central Florida) misconstrued the facts to make it sound as though NASA was investigating possible actions of its contractor workforce to delay the shuttle manifest. In other words, he made it sound like NASA suspected us contractors of deliberately dragging out the program to delay the inevitable end of the shuttle program in order to keep our jobs longer.

Twitter: A porthole view out into the Final Frontier

Submitted by mdbenson on Mon, 06/15/2009 - 17:56

Space. The Final Frontier. That’s what they said on TV. When I was a kid one thing that truly grabbed my imagination was Space. I was always one of the geeky kids who was into science and all that mad stuff. The Space Shuttle is one of those things that has always been ‘around’ since I was a kid. I grew up watching Shuttle missions, I remember the very sad days of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, watching the newsreel on the BBC in shocked silence and wondering if this would be the end of the Space Shuttle program. I even remember writing Space Shuttle story (with illustrations!) in class when I was only 11 years old.

Spacepirations

Submitted by AmnonGovrin on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 13:22

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