Hello all and welcome to this week’s GeekDad Space Report! Hot off the presses last week was the delay in the landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery by a day. The Shuttle did indeed land the next day at the …
Continue ReadingWelcome to another week of the GeekDad Space Report! I reported on three launches last week, one of which, the Space Shuttle Discovery, had already launched by the time the Space Report for last week was posted. The launch of …
Continue ReadingWelcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report! Both launches I reported on last week have made it off the pad with a destination of the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz spacecraft launched earlier this week to bring …
Continue ReadingWelcome to another week for the GeekDad Space Report. I have been reporting for a few weeks now on the launch of a student CubeSat payload aboard a sounding rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. I …
Continue ReadingWelcome to another addition of the GeekDad Space Report! The one launch scheduled for this past week successfully lofted a new EchoStar satellite into orbit. I also want to report on the launch of of a Chinese satellite from the …
Continue ReadingThere is not a single episode of Discovery and the BBC’s Life that would fail to make Avatar look drab and dull by comparison. There are suspenseful chase scenes, bizarre and jaw-droppingly gorgeous creatures, and animal behavior that seems at …
Continue ReadingWelcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report! The two launches last week of a Glonass navigation satellite and the next GOES weather satellite both made it off the ground, with a couple day delay on the GOES satellite. …
Continue ReadingWe on GeekDad aren’t subtle about our love for MythBusters. We, or at least most of us, follow the show’s official Twitter feed, in addition to those of several of its stars. If you don’t follow them yet, there’s no …
Continue ReadingI remember my dad telling me about watching Don Herbert on television back in the days of his original Watch Mr. Wizard. For me, growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, science on TV ranged from kid stuff like 3-2-1 …
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