Tag: moon
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Warm February Evening, Downtown Scranton – February 2018
Warm February Evening, Downtown Scranton – February 2018 It has been nice to have a short respite from winter these last few days. Walking downtown in the evening, without rushing to my next destination. I’m looking forward to spring weather.
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Capturing the ISS’s transit of the Sun during the eclipse
This is quite a feat. Photographer Trevor Mahlmann figured out where you’d need to be within the path of totality in order to capture the International Space Station transiting the sun during the eclipse. That alone is pretty awesome. But there was a hitch. The land area that you’d need to be on in order…
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Slingshot around the moon, for two
SpaceX: We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. That sentence makes me immeasurably happy. For most of my life I’ve been very disappointed in the human race’s collective efforts to explore space. I wasn’t even alive when the…