As well as blogging this meeting as best I can, I’m also here try very hard to suck as many people into communicating astronomy as I can. To that end, I gave a talk on a project to create a Speaker’s Bureau, a Writer’s Bureau and an archive of publicly available presentations. Led by Mike […]

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 […]

Next I moved on to “Blast Off”, which was probably the best part of the whole trip, aside from the tram tour. The beginning was a little cheesy – they crammed a bunch of people into a small room with big screens and speakers, and then had us “experience” a shuttle launch. It was cute, […]

After my earlier post, I paid an obscene amount of money for a less than mediocre lunch. Then I wandered through the main exhibit halls, mostly killing time before this showing. This museum appears to be very much about (scheduled) shows (and the tour of JSC), with exhibits around to occupy you in between (but […]

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 […]

The avid reader may have noticed my posting hasn’t be quite as fevered as powerhouse writers Phil Plait or Fraser Cain. This is because I’ve been plotting to take over the world, and sadly that takes time to plain.
2009 has been declared the International Year of Astronomy and has received the blessings of the United […]