Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/7/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 7, 2011
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We’ve had to say goodbye once again to our intern Faith – we will miss her and we hope you enjoyed her posts this summer! Before NASA interns leave for the summer, they often present their work. Here’s what July’s poster session looked like: Credit: NASA Goddard/Bill Hrybyk
A Visit to Palomar
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 24, 2011
- 4 Comments
The last time I visited an observatory, it was an ancient Chinese one. This time I visited one a little closer to home. When I learned that I was going to be in Southern California (visiting my husband who was there for back-to-back science conferences), I knew I had to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 7/26/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 26, 2011
- 3 Comments
The James Webb Space Telescope has had a lot of recent milestones. All the primary mirror segments have been polished – and the secondary mirror has just been completed. You can read a NASA web feature all about what Webb’s secondary mirror does and why it’s important. (It’s quite large … Continue Reading →
A letter to NASA
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 25, 2011
- 4 Comments
I think it’s easy for those of us who work at NASA to sometimes forget that WE WORK AT NASA! For many of us, it’s a job, with frustrations and mundane paperwork, just like any other place of employment has. And then we get a reminder of where we actually … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 7/18/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 18, 2011
- 1 Comment
Hank Green is still increasing the awesome. Here he talks about what’s next for NASA (post-space shuttle). He interviews a bunch of NASA folks, including NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden. Have you ever wondered how many people are in space at a given time? http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ has the answer! There really is … Continue Reading →
Foodies at NASA
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 15, 2011
- 2 Comments
Sara and I chatted with Erik Trinidad (and Moe Murdock) from Fancy Fast Food about their experience visiting NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. They got to see a lot of very cool stuff, like the James Webb Space Telescope’s ISIM structure (it will hold Webb’s instruments) spinning on the centrifuge. … Continue Reading →
Fancy Fast (Space) Food
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 12, 2011
- 4 Comments
When Sara and I attended Blogworld last year, we met Erik Trinidad, the mastermind behind the food humor blog, Fancy Fast Food. Erik’s blog entries are about his experiments taking a fast food meal, and transforming it into something that looks like fancy cuisine. The three of us schemed and … Continue Reading →
Mysterious Plans Afoot
- By Maggie Masetti
- June 15, 2011
- 1 Comment
Sorry we’ve been so remiss about posting – things have been busier than usual around here, leaving us not much time. One of the things we were busy with was a special project that we are timing for release around the last shuttle launch in July. We’ve been planning this … Continue Reading →
You Spin Me Right Round
- By Maggie Masetti
- May 26, 2011
- 2 Comments
Tuesday the 24th was a busy day here at Goddard – we had two big out-of-the-ordinary events. I was going to make them into two posts, but then I got my hands on a video which tied them both together nicely, so one it is. But before I get to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 5/23/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- May 23, 2011
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Earlier this month, we posted about Dr. Amber Straughn and Dr. Jane Rigby being finalists for a TED talk. TED talks are very high profile, and usually of geek-tech interest. Because they were finalists, they get to give a 5 minute audition talk which will be webcast on Tuesday May, … Continue Reading →
