Tag Archives: NASA

ISS Notify

By Nathan | June 8, 2011

Update, August 19:The kickstarter project was a huge success!! Now I have to figure out how to make hundreds of them. In the meantime I hosted a site about the project: open-notify.org. Update, June 13:Thanks everyone for their comments and feedback! For everyone who is interested in buying one, check out my kickstater page! If [...]

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A Year From Space

By Nathan | April 1, 2011

NASA has a couple of very awesome satellites called Aqua and Terra. They constantly orbit us building up a photo of the entire surface of the Earth about once per day. The data is used by scientists worldwide to measure climate change, fight forest fires and all sorts of awesome things. Both of the satellites [...]

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Watching a Shuttle Launch

By Nathan | March 8, 2011

This past week I was part of one of the most amazing events that happens on this planet—a space shuttle launch. I can’t even wrap my head around how lucky I am to not only get a chance to see a space shuttle in person, but to watch the very last launch of Discovery and [...]

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Paper Rocket

By Nathan | January 17, 2011

A while ago I did a couple little paper models of some Futurama characters which were a lot of fun. Recently I’ve been waiting to see a space shuttle launch with @spacekate and after visiting so many museums and NASA facilities I really wanted a model of a rocket. The think about models is they [...]

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Space at SXSW

By Nathan | March 18, 2010

I was lucky enough this past week to be a part of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin TX. For the uninitiated SXSW is a film and music festival plus a conference about internet business and culture. It’s a mecca for all things cool and new on the web. There is so [...]

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