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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
4/26/2007 5:54 AM |
Yesterday, we were discussing some of the 3-D photographs of the sun released by NASA. They were taken by the dual STEREO spacecraft now accompanying Earth in its year-long orbit around our star. I hope you’ve sent off for your anaglyph glasses so you can get a look at these pictures for yourself. There are a couple of 3-D video clips you can check out as well. Web addresses where you can find this stuff are listed at the end of yesterday’s blog, in case you’re interested.
Our space program has been kind of pokey for the past 10 years or so, and the days of the Space Transport System, or space shuttle are numbered. NASA even now is beginning preliminary work on the next phase of space exploration which will include our return to the moon, and eventually a manned trip to Mars and back. When I was a little kid, I could only dream of such things happening someday, I never even considered that I might actually be around to see at least some of them occur in my lifetime.
But Life is like that, I guess – chocked full of surprises of one type or another.
My wife and I took a quick jaunt over to Kennedy Space Center perhaps seven or eight years ago, to watch a night-time launch of the shuttle. It was a most impressive sight, but we weren’t nearly as close as I’d like to get to one. On our last trip to the Space Center, we watched an IMAX 3-D movie that included the launch of a space shuttle. That offered a good view of the activity from a vantage point much closer than where any human would be allowed, due to the danger. That was some of the most magnificent footage I’ve ever seen. Quite impressive, to say the least!
I’d like to get over there a couple more times before the plug is pulled on the shuttle program. Seeing one of those launches is definitely something to tell the grandkids about! But in the meantime, I guess I’ll just have to be satisfied with looking at some of the fruits of our space program on the Internet, AND in 3-D! |
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