beamjockey: Drawing of Bill of the Heterodyne Boys by Phil Foglio. (Default)
2009-09-26 12:53 am

Steve Collins Encounters Mars (in 3-D)

As I mentioned to [livejournal.com profile] dragonet2, C-SPAN captured a nice story told at JPL by the estimable Steve Collins, spacecraft wrangler, in 2005.

C-SPAN's clip-embedding doesn't appear to work on LJ (at least, not this week), so go here. The page will want to create a popup window with a Flash player. I've marked Steve's part of the symposium, which starts around minute 38 and goes to the end.
beamjockey: Drawing of Bill of the Heterodyne Boys by Phil Foglio. (Default)
2006-01-25 08:11 pm

Short-Notice Theatre:  IMAX, Navy Pier, Roving Mars, Free!

A sudden boon has been granted us.

Short version: RSVP by 2 PM Thursday, get yourself down to Navy Pier by 7 PM, and you can see the new 3D IMAX movie about the Mars Exploration Rovers. Free.

Jim Plaxco, space activist and webmaster of
<http://www.chicagospace.org/>, passes this along.

Details of the Roving Mars event )

The IMAX site:
<http://www.imax.com/imaxweb/filmdetail.do?type=comingsoon&movieid=code__.__8>

About the film:
<http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_rovingmars_060125.html>

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/movies/25mars.html?_r=1>

Useful coupon for $10 off parking at Navy Pier--<http://navypier.com/pdf/parkingcoupon06.pdf>> (Ordinarily, parking is $19 for one to three hours.)

See you there, Mars buffs!
beamjockey: Drawing of Bill of the Heterodyne Boys by Phil Foglio. (Default)
2004-01-15 10:51 am

Happiness is...

...seeing the Mars lander platform in your rear-view mirror.