Blogs about: Astronomy And Aerospace
Flight Profile of Cactus Flight 1549
gaussling wrote 1 month ago: The YouTube video below is a reconstruction of the flight of US Airways Flight 1549, referred to as … more →
Balloon Boy Still Missing
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gaussling wrote 2 months ago: So the breaking news in my neighborhood is that the Colorado Balloon Boy’s craft has landed, b … more →
Converting NYC's Central Park into Manhattan Airport
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gaussling wrote 4 months ago: There is a website by the Manhattan Airport Foundation dedicated to the proposition that Central Par … more →
Mineral deposits on other worlds
gaussling wrote 7 months ago: As one begins to understand the manner in which mineralization and elemental concentration occurs as … more →
Launch Site
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gaussling wrote 8 months ago: View Larger Map Guess where this is …? … more →
Submersible Aviation
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gaussling wrote 9 months ago: Sharpen your pencils boys and girls. DARPA is soliciting proposals for Submersible Aircraft. Here i … more →
Tailplane Icing
gaussling wrote 10 months ago: Check out this informative NASA video on tailplane icing. It is a bit early yet to make a judgement … more →
Siccus Silicis. Oh yonder dessicated moon! Why dust thou taunt me?
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gaussling wrote 10 months ago: Big discovery. A few doors down at The Universe Today there is a report of findings showing that the … more →
US Airways Splashdown on the Hudson
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gaussling wrote 11 months ago: The Hudson River touchdown of US Airways flight 1549 has been called a miracle by some folks. How th … more →
Martian Swamp Gas
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gaussling wrote 11 months ago: According to recent reports, space scientists using infrared spectrometers at observatories in Hawai … more →
Solar Transit of Jet
gaussling wrote 11 months ago: Check out this great shot of a jet transiting the sun. It happens ca 8 seconds in the sequence. Wha … more →
Columbia Accident Report
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gaussling wrote 11 months ago: NASA has published the investigation report of the Columbia accident. It is worth taking a look at. … more →
Pushing Tin
gaussling wrote 11 months ago: While browsing MetaFilter I ran into a really nice Air Traffic Control simulator called ATC-SIM. Thi … more →
Aqueous Enceladus
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gaussling wrote 1 year ago: With the revelation that streams of water ejected from the Saturnian moon Enceladus may arise from s … more →
Link-O-Rama
gaussling wrote 1 year ago: Interested in building an astronomical observatory in your hometown? Have a look at Observatory 101. … more →
Danes ... in Space!
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gaussling wrote 1 year ago: Copenhagen Suborbitals announced the the successful static test firing of their XLR-2 hybrid rocket … more →
Yves Rossi's Flying Wing
gaussling wrote 1 year ago: This is one of the better videos showing details of the technology. I wonder what the stall speed of … more →
Cosmodrome Photos
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gaussling wrote 1 year ago: Check out this link to photos from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. See how cozy the Soyuz Capsule is. Thank … more →
Two Shuttles
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gaussling wrote 1 year ago: (Credit: AP Photo) Here is something you don’t see every day. Two Shuttles are now sitting l … more →
