patrickumsted.com » Astronomy http://patrickumsted.com Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:47:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Can I get an Earth with a side of Saturn rings, please? http://patrickumsted.com/2009/11/can-i-get-an-earth-with-a-side-of-saturn-rings-please/ http://patrickumsted.com/2009/11/can-i-get-an-earth-with-a-side-of-saturn-rings-please/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:39:11 +0000 Patrick Umsted http://patrickumsted.com/?p=208

]]> http://patrickumsted.com/2009/11/can-i-get-an-earth-with-a-side-of-saturn-rings-please/feed/ 0 50 Years of Space Exploration http://patrickumsted.com/2009/10/50-years-of-space-exploration/ http://patrickumsted.com/2009/10/50-years-of-space-exploration/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:34:26 +0000 Patrick Umsted http://patrickumsted.com/?p=144 4002050596_867a1c880e

50 years of Exploration map from National Geographic.

It really is amazing how relatively few missions failed considering the use of what we now see as antiquated and, at the time, untested technologies being used to perform such daring missions.  Kudos to every scientist, engineer, astronaut, cosmonaut, astronomer, factory worker, mathematician, physicist, and bureaucrat that made these missions possible and more successful than we could imagine.

[hattip: Laughing Squid]

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“We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing, for no other reason than because we were curious.”

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