Friday morning Pamela and I both went to the session on comparative planetology. While we’d worked pretty hard to make sure we were never both in the same session, this was sort of necessary. We had to leave mid-session in order to get to the airport in time for my 2.15 flight home – so […]

This morning I’m sitting in a session titled, “Lunar geophysics.” A more accurate might have been, “Lunar Magnetic Fields.” So far the dominant theme has been trying to determine if the moon once had a nature magnetic field driven by a lunar dynamo, or if all magnetic fields fields found on the moon were induced […]

So this afternoon I attended this session. Pamela had previously suggested I go to the one on Mars impacts, but I was stubborn and thought this one looked interesting too. Reading over her post on it, I will admit to regretting it. My main reaction to this session was Wow… I’m not a geologist. Identifying […]

My last disappointment with the space centre museum was in the content. Don’t get me wrong – I was thrilled to learn about the Apollo missions, and to hear 10 minutes about the current shuttle mission. I would have loved to learn more, though. I heard a lot of “and with Orion we will go […]

I spent yesterday wandering around the Space Centre Museum at Johnson Space Centre. There were lots of things to do and see… but at the same time, it was sorely lacking.
There is one small area wherein they detailed the various incarnations of spacesuits/constant wear suits/etc. There were bios of a lot of astronauts as well. […]

Yes, that was a silly title, but it was a good day filled with Lunar science. (Posting delayed by too much fun recording content).
The very first talk I saw this morning was so cool that instead of writing it up, I’m just going to interview the guy who gave the talk: Larry Copper of The […]

As Pamela mentioned earlier, I get to spend today at the Johnson Space Centre Museum. It’s not as good as seeing the shuttle launch with Scott, but it’s a really close second – I’m sure not complaining. Talk about chances to geek out.
Pamela dropped me off here just before they opened at 10am. After paying […]

It’s a day of missions. I just left the MESSENGER session to sit in on part of the SELENE mission session. This new craft on the block is a Japanese produced and is returned hi resolution images and movies back to Earth as it systematically acquires topographic maps of Earth’s moon. SELENE, which is also […]