Liam at NAB with TWIT

The NAB Trip - Tue/Wed

He sure does get around. Liam made a lightening visit to Las Vegas for NAB. His main purpose was to meet up with a whole load of NASA folks, including Carlos Fontanot, Imagery Manager for the International Space Station and the CEO of Black Magic, Grant Petty, who's been a leading light (and in-kind donor) for the project to replace the cameras on the Space Station in 2017. You'll hear much more about the project as we get further into 2016.

And on to TWIT...

As an aside, Liam swung by his friends at TWIT TV who were broadcasting from the show, and ended up doing a short segment with the Padre. 

Thanks to our friends from Space Games Federation for their photo of Liam at the booth.

Space Shuttle's massive external (orange) fuel tank will join Endeavor

The Spaces Shuttle's external fuel tank will be joining Endeavor at the California Science Center in April, after a complex journey through Los Angeles streets. The last one in existence, ET-94, was donated by NASA last year. Now the Science Center is planning the move.

Read more in the LA Times and watch for details of the journey on March 4th. So glad I'm not planning that party!

Shuttle tank on it's way back to Earth (Wikipedia)

Welcome home Scott!

It's been too busy around here watching Scott Kelly's return to Earth. His speech was an inspiration for us all, but especially for our young people.

My favorite phrase from his speech: "We must lead, we must learn and we must discover"

We can't wait to see all the vital information that will come out of the one-year mission and help us smooth the path to Mars.

Harambee School Gets an ISS-Above

Photo by merin mcdonald - pasadena outlook

Liam joined school Principal Harlan Redmond and "Donate to a School" contributor Brent Whitfield, CEO of DCG at Harambee Preparatory School to meet students, see the ISS-Above installed at the school and answer burning questions from the students. 

Here is the article written by Merin McDonald of the Pasadena Outlook

Scan from the print version of the  Pasadena Outlook 1/28/16. 

Remembering Challenger

As I sit here watching the images on the ISS-Above in my own office, I'm deeply grateful to those who have gone before on whose shoulders we all stand to tackle the next frontier. 

Today we’re really present to the courage it takes to be in the space exploration as we mourn Challenger. And yes, what a thing to give one’s life to. That inspires us in our work with young people and teachers.

Thank you Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist.