Attack of the Smartphones: A NASATweetup at the Johnson Space Flight Center!

Smartphones out… (Credit: NASA/JSC).

 We came, we saw, we tweeted profusely… last month’s Tweetup at the Johnson Spaceflight Center  was a resounding success. Only the fourth official NASA tweetup ever held, this was the first at the JSC and the first attended by Astroguyz. What follows is a sort of after-action report, both of the JSC [...]

December 2009:Life in the Astro Blog-o-Sphere.

Stately Quito Observatory…(Photo by Author).

Coming to a December sky near you: The beginning of the month of December finds Astroguyz south of the equator exploring the environs of Quito, Ecuador and the surrounding area. Expect posts on such southern sky wonders as the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, and perhaps a tour of the oldest [...]

01.10.09: “Bozo” in Space?

Yesterday’s early AM TMA-16 Soyuz launch out of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carried a very unusual passenger. Guy Laliberte, Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Cirque du Soleil, blasted off 3:30 AM EDT with cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and US astronaut Jeffery Williams for an eventual docking on Friday. Laliberte paid a reputed 35$ million dollars [...]