The Science Cheerleaders Performing

And because my prose can't do them justice, here's a video of the Science Cheerleaders in action, courtesy of Randy Olson:



Note that Your Humble Narrator managed to make the credits... :-)

Also note: Darlene has added a site if you're interested in booking the Science Cheerleaders for your science-themed event: http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/bring-the-science-cheerleaders-to-your-next-big-event/

The Entire Ares I-X Flight

From liftoff to splashdown...as seen from one of NASA's Cessna observer aircraft.

Why Designing By Committee Sucks

Hat tip to Dana, my long-lost neighbor...

Okay, That's Weird

The Anne Frank Huis, which I visited rather recently, has just released/posted possibly the only images of the young girl ever captured on film. Funny how these things pop up once you're sensitized to them.

Today's Disney Fix


I'm not always a huge Disney buff, but this time-lapse sequence of Disneyland's construction is worth watching.

More from Moontown

Eagle-eyed Scott found a couple videos from the day I was at Moontown. You won't see me in these videos, unless you've got a microscope, but these were kind of fun.

This video is a ground-level view of the DC-3 flyby and might give you some hint as to why I fumbled the camera...



This is an aerial view of the DC-3's landing from one of the chase planes that followed the plane in.

Latest on Ares from The Futures Channel

The second installment of The Futures Channel's profile on Ares can be found here. These folks do a pretty good job. The first part in the series is here.

Some Miscellaneous NASA Stuff

Here's an education program I hadn't heard of before: High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH): http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/descriptions/HUNCH.html

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Oh yeah: and the Ares Projects have a three-year progress video out there for the taxpayers' edification (the emphasis is there because there are some folks out there who believe Ares is still in the "drawing board" stage). If you'd like to see it, click here (link modified 1/12/09). It's about 18 minutes long, so be patient with the download time. My buddy Jason did a hell of a job on condensing three years into that amount of time, and the video people did their usual outstanding job showing actual progress toward the Moon.