by Pamela | Jan 2, 2010 | Astronomy
Tomorrow (well, technically today), I’m going to be at the National Zoo in Washington DC doing outreach to animals in Amazonia (and hopefully to a few humans too – This could include you!) If you’re in DC, come on by! Activities start at noon, and...
by Pamela | Dec 26, 2009 | Astronomy
It’s December 25, Christmas day 2009. In 6 more days we’ll ring in 2010, and in 16 more days IYA will come to an official end. There are still pieces to tie up – the evaluations will all take place in South Africa in March, and there are a whole lot...
by Pamela | Nov 30, 2009 | Astronomy, Citizen Science, Meetings, Technology
Here at dotAstronomy, each day of the conference is dedicated to a different topic: Citizen Science, Web-based Research, Visualization, and Outreach. Each topic is tangled with new media and web 2.0 technologies, and by the end of the week we hope to have made the web...
by Pamela | Nov 30, 2009 | Astronomy, Meetings, Technology
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by Pamela | Nov 29, 2009 | Astronomy, NASA, Space Craft
It feels like a lifetime has passed since the Shuttle Launch, but I need to finish telling that story before I can move onto something new. That November the shuttle Atlantis launched flawlessly. It is all a mosaic of moments: the shuttle astronauts drove past and...
by Pamela | Nov 16, 2009 | Astronomy, NASA, Space Craft
We’re here. We’re actually here. It is launch day for STS-129, the next to last launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. We settled into our seats at T-3 hours and holding, waiting for the crew to head out the vehicle and load up and get locked in (a new...