Yeah, I'm thinking of getting the DVD set for my space collection. It's too bad all my other stuff is on VHS.
Still nice to watch & see how it was all done, just like the Right Stuff.
Alan Shepard: Dear Lord, please don't let me **** up.
Gordon Cooper: I didn't quite copy that. Say again, please.
Alan Shepard: I said everything's A-OK.
They should have quoted this line when the new toilet was repaired on the ISS.
Alan Shepard: Request permission to relieve bladder.
Astronauts put finishing touches on labOne of a series of digital still images documenting the Japanese Experiment Module, or JEM, also called Kibo, in its new home on the International Space Station, this view depicts Kibo's exterior, backdropped by solar array panels for the orbital outpost and one of its trusses.
The main Kibo lab was installed during the first spacewalk of this, the STS-124, mission. Credit: NASA
A still taken from a video camera outside the ISS, shows the Kibo lab's Japanese robotic arm outstretched to its full 33-foot (10-meter) length. Credit: NASA TV.
Backdropped by the blackness of space, the Japanese Pressurized Module (foreground), the Japanese Logistics Module (top right), and a portion of the Harmony node of the ISS are featured in this image photographed by a crewmember during the STS-124 mission's second spacewalk on June 5, 2008. Credit: NASA.
The Phoenix is still having problems with the martian soil.
A "before" image shows a sample of Martian soil resting on a screen over the opening to one of the eight ovens of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument on Phoenix. After vibration, the soil slumped almost imperceptibly downhill. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute.
The "after" image was taken after about seven minutes of shaking a sample of Martian soil, which rests on a screen over the opening to one of the eight ovens of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument on Phoenix. The soil resting on the screen has slumped almost imperceptibly downhill, with a dark gap about 3 millimeters (one-tenth of an inch) wide opening at the top edge of the screen. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute.
Engineers operating the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander are testing a revised method for delivering soil samples to laboratory instruments on Phoenix's deck now that researchers appreciate how clumpy the soil is at the landing site.