Back from holidays

8 Jul 2008

What a month for me to go on holidays. The Shuttle was launched, had a perfect mission and landed with no flaws (other than severely damaging the launch pad); the Phoenix lander found ice right under itself and sent lots of data and pictures; New Horizons crossed the orbit of Saturn; I met Phil Plait and Neil deGrasse Tyson (hmm, that may be important only to me); and so on. It was a very busy month in space exploration, and I'll assume that everyone reading this knows about that already, so I won't rehash anything.

Now I'm back and will try to keep an eye (and comment) on future developments. Like the upcoming total solar eclipse, on 01 August, about which I'll write next time.

Posted by Wilson on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 5:41 PM | 0 TrackBacks

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