Month: January 2011

Voyager 1 at edge of solar system

Voyager 1 at edge of solar system

Stamatios M. Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is pictured with the Voyager spacecraft’s backup flight unit which was never used. (Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun/January 17, 2011) So cool. Thanks to Michael Doyle for posting this on Facebook. Last June, Krimigis’ team noticed that solar particles had stopped striking from behind, and […]

We make planes

America’s landlord is visiting this week – Here’s another interesting blurb from the NYTimes, people are always asking what “we make now”… planes, 200 of them – The White House announced shortly after the ceremony that the Chinese government had agreed to buy 200 airplanes from Boeing in a $19 billion deal, the centerpiece of […]