If you’re a regular reader, you know of SpaceCadet Jimmiejoe. He’s the twelve year old who hides behind these 58 year old eyes, demanding to be let out from time to time. Last Wednesday, he’d had enough. We WERE, by GAWD, going to Los Angeles, and we WERE, by GAWD, going to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour. He was accepting no more excuses, no more delays, and no more procrastination. There’s a space ship sitting less than 200 miles away, and we needed to go. How can you argue with logic like that? So, we went. The SpaceCadet surprised me. He didn’t tear up when he saw the Endeavour. I was kind of expecting that, after his reaction to seeing a Saturn V rocket in person.
A few minutes ago, I was sitting in my living room, holding a little piece of plastic and metal to my ear, no wires connecting me to any plugs on the walls, talking to a friend in Virginia as he drove down a highway. Space Cadet JimmieJoe was jumping up and down in my head again, amazed.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Jimmiejoe’s Space Age – A Recap
September 30, 2016
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Curiosity takes a selfie. On Mars.
Today, we (deliberately) crash-landed a space probe on a comet. The Rosetta probe was “gently” crashed into the comet 67P, on which a specifically designed lander had soft-landed on November 12, 2014. I was watching ESA/NASA TV when the loss-of-signal event indicated the flight had ended with the probe impacting the surface of the comet.
I am one month older than the space age.
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