This episode of NASA ScienceCasts is titled Sunset Comet
Comet Pan-STARRS has survived its encounter with the sun and is now emerging from twilight in the sunset skies of the northern hemisphere. A NASA spacecraft monitoring the comet has beamed back pictures of a wild and ragged tail.
More at Sunset Comet – NASA Science
Janet Stevens talked about the Space Foundation‘s upcoming 29th National Space Symposium (April 8-11, 2013 in Colorado) : Janet Stevens, National Space Symposium, Thursday, 3-14-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.
If you are in Southern California on Saturday, check out the Plane Crazy Saturday – March 16 at Mojave Air and Space Port.
Come out to Mojave Airport for breakfast or lunch, listen to a great speaker at 11 a.m. and enjoy some time with other pilots and aviation minded friends!
Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation Presents
Plane Crazy Saturday!
Aircraft Fly-In – Historic Aircraft Display Day
March 16, 2013
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Free admission!
Special Guest Speaker at 11:00 a.m.
Rocket Photography
With Mike Massee
Photographer extraordinaire!
(Rockets, Landscapes, Trains: Full Scale and 7.5 Gauge Live Steam Trains and Aircraft)
Mike is invaluable to XCOR Aerospace as a professional photographer, cinematographer, solids modeler, graphics artist, Photoshop expert, broadcast engineer, and adventurer.
He serves as Vice President with the Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation.
His photos have been featured in major publications around the world including Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Science, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Wired, Nature, Space.com and many more. My railroad photography has appeared in Trains, Railfan and Railroad (cover story, May 2009) and Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading (cover story, September / October 2010) as well as several calendars.
Wen Painter will be on hand in the Voyager Restaurant to sign Tax-exempt forms for pilots!
Aviation and Space Art with Doug Castleman
Children Books with Usborne Books
Aviation collectables for sale
Posters, small gliders, patches and t-shirts
Bring the kids! Bring a camera!
All guests are reminded to observe flightline safety rules, including: no touching propellers, no running, no pets, and keep a watchful eye for taxiing aircraft! Thanks!
Bob Zimmerman has an interesting report on a visit to the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, Arizona: Visiting a nuclear missile silo – Behind The Black.
I’ll note that the company Frontier Astronautics LLC is located in a decommissioned Atlas-E Missile Silo in Wyoming. So such sites do have some utility after all.