Monthly Archives: September 2011

No launch, but time well spent

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. –Henry VI, part III, scene 2 After two days of anticipation, the Delta II rocket with the GRAIL satellites were still sitting on Launch Complex 17. While the rains held off and the … Continue reading

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Twitterazzi arriving

The 150 people invited to the Kennedy Space Center for tomorrow’s launch of the Grail mission to the moon are gathering in the rain outside the Visitors Complex. Even though registration started at 7 a.m., you can’t actually go inside … Continue reading

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NASA giveth and taketh away

The NASA Tweetup is less than a week away and the 150 participants got the official schedule in our inboxes today. There’s some good news and some bad news. First the bad news –  I must vent. We’re not being … Continue reading

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