Doug Ellison, @NASA_eyes, talking about Eyes on the Solar System. He worked on the web app Eyes on the Solar System, which is like Google Earth but for space. It is WAY COOL. Plus he has a British accent, so I'm in love. :)

The data team is in Norway, so the mascot is a polar bear.

Note NASA TV showing Centaur stage in background.

Inside the Apollo/Saturn V visitor center at KSC

Picked up my badge & KSC pass at the KSC Press Accreditation Building, an unpretentious old cinder block building, & started thinking about all the "real" journalists who've passed through here over the years...

cyclotram.blogspot.com/2011/11/where-i-was-this-morning.html

The tweeps are back for RSS retraction

I'm on the local TV news!

NASA Administrator. Doesn't sound like much, but if NASA were a private company, he'd be the president and CEO. He was in the Marines and was on the shuttle mission that deployed the Hubble telescope.

Juno came in on schedule and on budget.

GRAIL Launch

at Launch Complex 41, Juno is aboard the Atlas V 551, the day before launch

Venus Barbie gets girls interested in science.

juno on launch pad, less than 24 hours before launch

- 1 Guest Badge with my first name and Twitter name (@outdoortype)

- 1 durable NASA plastic bag, definitely reusable (you know, like the space shuttle)

- 1 set of directions on how to access their wireless network (the better to send messages from my iPhone)

- 1 bookmark of sorts advertising NASA aeronautics

- 2 bookmarks about Earth Day being everyday at NASA (did you that Advertising copywriter Julian Koenig was on the organizing committee in 1969 and created the name "Earth Day" for the event. Koenig picked April 22 because it was his birthday.)

- 1 cool bookmark utilizing lenticular printing that advertises NASA Earth Science (Lenticular printing is a technology in which a lenticular lens is used to produce images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles. In this case, several versions of the Earth appear to float in space.)

- 1 DVD titled 50 Years of Inspiration, Innovation, and Discoveries

- 3 NASA logo stickers

- 1 NASA 45th Anniversary sticker

- 1 photo of the Crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-125 (signed by the crew)

- 1 patch ISS expedition patch

- 1 patch from STS-125

- 2 stickers from STS-125

- 1 sticker from ISS expedition XIV

- 1 sticker from STS-117

- 1 sticker from STS-116

- 1 NASA F-18 toy airplane

- 11 postcards of various NASA things

- 10 pins from various missions

- 1 Google Earth patch

- 1 lenticular postcard showing all the "common" things found in your house that are special thanks to NASA

- 1 booklet about NASA Hits: Rewards from Space

@therealdjflux, @SpaceKate, and @natronics with Jim Lovell - Command Module Pilot on Apollo 8, backup Commander on Apollo 11, and commander on the famous Apollo 13 mission.

"If it drains you, it's wrong. If it energizes you, it's right."

L: Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken), R: Richard Hay (@WinObs)

At the NASATweetup

Another shot of Dr. Fran Bagenal and @jpmajor

yep, i was really there, less than 24 hours before juno launched!

Ann Marie Cunningham @talkingscience

Picked up my badge & KSC pass at the KSC Press Accreditation Building, an unpretentious old cinder block building, & started thinking about all the "real" journalists who've passed through here over the years...

cyclotram.blogspot.com/2011/11/where-i-was-this-morning.html

Astronauts Christopher Ferguson and Sandy Magnus.