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NASA posts Solid Rocket Booster Video
Published on 10 Jul 2006 at 3:54 am.
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On Sunday NASA (quietly?) posted video of the launch of STS-121 Discovery taken from cameras mounted on the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs). These videos are in Windows Media Player 9 format. For those of you on Macs (like me) I recommend the Flip4Mac WMV plugin for Quicktime — it’s free and works well.
In the first [...]
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Terragen: Flight Over Olympus Mons
Published on 18 Feb 2006 at 5:02 pm.
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Sounds cool eh?
I took a Digital Elevation Map (DEM) of the surface of Mars, isolated the area around Olympus Mons, and imported it into Terragen. I then created a camera script of fly over the martian volcano. Admittedly I could have done a much better job with the surface texture and the vertical scale is [...]
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New Horizons Launch Attempt Today
Published on 19 Jan 2006 at 12:50 pm.
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Greetings and welcome back to the “Big Rocket Show.”
12:54 PM: So far so good.
- Announcing green for all weather constraints.
- Built in 10 minute hold coming up at T-4 minutes.
- Clouds need to thin a little or the launch will be delayed while they switch to a different weather configuration.
1:04 PM: No go due [...]
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The Moe-oo
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 3:14 am.
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Filed under Thoughts & Ramblings, Video.
If you read this post from a few days ago First Session of 2006, you’ll see I mention how one of the first things my son learned to say and identify by pointing was the Moon. I found the video we took of that night — December 26, 2003. Let me set the stage…
My wife [...]
