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THE SHUTTLE RIPS SPACE/TIME DURING A END OF AN ERA

After the Shuttle Atlantis

I had a good day at NASA. we haven’t slept much… I’m really on smoke at this point. But it was all value it and a very good knowledge all around.

After the convey went off and pennyless through the clouds, we incited around for a while to pick up my thoughts… Unbeknownst to me, my crony Stu Maschwitz (from Prolost.com) took this print of me… we don’t post a lot of these, but suspicion you might like to see it… BTW, Stu’s mother is creation some overwhelming shuttle tees that are in vogue and unique…might be value a look if you are a air blower of all this space stuff like me!

Robert Scoble also posted a print of me prior to the launch itself. He finished up with a good shot too… we told him right where to stand, and he was so vehement when he got the shot! Haha it was waggish because he came using opposite the field, fluttering his laptop in the air yelling, “I adore you Trey! we adore you Trey!” Hehe…but, on top of the good recommendation on the spot, he still got a great shot at 400mm on his own.

Daily Photo – The Shuttle Rips Space/Time at the End of an Era

I’ll try to report the sound.

Since this is as tighten as you can get, and this is 3 miles away, it takes a while for the receptive to advice to get to you. And it does pour out opposite the H2O in a rumbling, acrobatics way like you might expect. But then, after that, something other than receptive to advice starts to come opposite the water. It’s a array of concussive waves that quiver your complete structure of the body and thrum through your soul. It’s not a solid hubbub of vibration, but a aroused staccato stroke of secret forces that means a fluttering intonation around and through your chest.

This is the last space convey launch of our lives. And so we could not assistance but be reminded of this being last when this obsessive receptive to advice total with the last steer of the waste qualification arcing divided into space.

FINAL NIGHT OF A SPACE SHUTTLE

Google+ Hangout Live from NASA

Yesterday we did a very cold live promote video hangout from NASA with Google+. We had people from all over the universe joining while we was on video on my laptop coming the launch pad. We all went through a few levels of confidence together (I made everybody be quiet), then we approached the VAB, saw some of the media center, prior to eventually removing to the launch pad. I’ll do another live Google+ Hangout tomorrow during my setup and you guys can ask questions…or just…hangout!

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Interview with Scoble

Robert Scoble is here with me at the NASA eventuality (along with many other people). After a little #NASATweetup event yesterday, he grabbed me for a discerning talk about photography (click couple to listen), and how we was formulation to this outing in particular. Enjoy!

Daily Photo – Final Night of the Space Shuttle

I was utterly dripping after laying in mosquito-invested waters for an uncomfortably long time. At one point, a endangered French headlines contributor came up to me and said, “Excuse me, but you’re quite lonesome in bugs.” It contingency have been pretty bad for him to come over and contend that… we think maybe he suspicion we was passed because we stayed in the same on all sides for so long, perplexing to zen-focus on the shot.

This is the Space Shuttle Atlantis, in box you do not know. It’s also the last space convey launch, ever. So, it’s incredibly special, and I’m happy we got to outlay time with the boat on the last night.

Bonus Photo – The Countdown Clock at Sunrise

And this is the important countdown clock. Scott Kublin and we woke up prior to 5 AM to begin environment up our remote cameras. One of them Leo Laporte Fed-exed to me overnight so we could have time to set it up… we put those inside the explosion section and set them up to automatically glow at the launch. We made a behind-the-scenes video to uncover how all was done… it will be edited and common soon… but, in the meantime, here is what we saw first thing in the sunrise on attainment to NASA.

SUN BUSTING THROUGH STORMCLOUDS DURING NASA

Want to follow the pre-launch activities?

Follow me @TreyRatcliff and the #NASATweetup hashtag on Twitter.

Also, Robert Scoble (and many others) will be with me at the launch, and we figure we’ll be using Google+ quite a bit too to post updates, photos, and the like, so that’s another fun place to watch.

Daily Photo – Sun Busting Through Stormclouds at NASA

I was in the Tweetup tent you do something terribly critical but utterly complicated when Stu Maschwitz came in and told me that the charge clouds were violation on our shores. So we got my little supply and went outward to see the matter.

We get these kind of outrageous absolute summer clouds in Texas too. The kind that hurl in on a too-hot day and you have a feeling that something absolute is a-comin’. You tie down the cows and take the the one preferred sheep down to the groundwork because it’s gonna be a long night…

The object darted in and out of the clouds, and we grabbed it just as it peeked through a small hole it tore in the thunderhead.

SOLAR WAVES

from NASA: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Scientists have speckled the iconic surfer’s call rolling through the ambience of the sun. This creates for more than just a good photo-op: the waves reason clues as to how appetite moves through that atmosphere, well known as the corona. Since scientists know how these kinds of waves — instituted by a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability if you’re being technical — sunder appetite in the water, they can use this report to better assimilate the corona. This in turn, might assistance compromise an fast poser of because the aurora is thousands of times hotter than creatively expected. Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities start when two fluids of different densities or different speeds upsurge by each other. In the box of sea waves, that’s the unenlightened H2O and the lighter air. As they upsurge past each other, slight ripples can be fast amplified into the hulk waves desired by surfers. In the box of the solar atmosphere, which is made of a very prohibited and electrically charged gas called plasma, the two flows come from an area of plasma erupting off the sun’s aspect as it passes by plasma that is not erupting. The disproportion in upsurge speeds and densities opposite this range sparks the instability that builds into the waves. In sequence to endorse this description, the group grown a mechanism indication to see what takes place in the region. Their indication showed that these conditions could in truth lead to hulk surfing waves rolling through the corona. Seeing the big waves suggests they …