Kanok’s Balcony

I’m still having difficulty picturing the scenario based on the explanation provided, but its definitely a serendipitously-timed photograph worth sharing with everyone.

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Do you want to put your name into space?  Here is your chance.  Next year NASA will lunch Kepler spacecraft (actually a space telescope) to orbit around the Sun.  The mission is to find the earth-sized planet in a certain area of our Milkyway Galaxy called Cygnus Region.  With the spacecraft there is a DVD contains names of earth people who submit their names on to this web site.  After submitting you can print a certificate with serial number to confirm that your name will be sent “out there”.

Apart from put your name into space, if you want to know ‘Why around the sun?” “Why it has to be Cygnus?”  etc.  The mission of Kepler can be found from here.  Quite interesting actually.

Hard drive from wreckage of shuttle Columbia which identified to contain results from an experiment to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity.  Once believe that data were totally destroyed, still can be recovered 99% of that data contained.  The result was published in a journal called Physical Review E.  By the way the HDD was 400MB Seagate.

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นี่ไม่ใช้ครั้งแรกที่มีข่าวว่ามีนักบินอวกาศนำ iPod ติดตัวไปขณะปฎิบัติภารกิจในอวกาศ  แต่ดูเหมือนว่ารูปข้างล่างนี้จะเป็นการยืนยันว่ามี iPod ไปอยู่บน Space Shuttle  จริงๆ 

ถึงแม้ว่าไม่ได้เป็น iPod รุ่นล่าสุดของ Apple  แต่คงเป็นความภูมิใจลึกๆ ของ Steve Jobs ละนะ

คลิกที่รูปเพื่อไปดูรูปต้นฉบับของ NASA นะครับ

Look at this astronaut install the ESA’s Columbus Laboratory to International Space Station (ISS).  Would like to know what he thought when floating hundreds Km above the earth.

The International Space Station (ISS) has been equipped with a powerful new scientific laboratory. The Space Shuttle Atlantis delivered the Columbus Laboratory to the ISS and installed the seven meter long module over the past week. Columbus has ten racks for experiments that can be controlled from the station or the Columbus Control Center in Germany. The first set of experiments includes the Fluid Science Laboratory that will explore fluid properties in the microgravity of low Earth orbit, and Biolab which supports experiments on microorganisms. Future Columbus experiments include an atomic clock that will test minuscule timing effects including those expected by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Pictured above, mission specialist Hans Schlegel works on the outside of Columbus. Scientists from all over the world may propose and carry out experiments to be done on the laboratory during its ten year mission.

For those who into photography, click the picture above to see the quality of this picture.  Wow

More photos like this can be found that at Astronomy Picture of the Day at NASA http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html