Image Credit: NASA
The latest from JPL:
NASA’s Stardust Passes Moon, Just Hours Away From Earth Return
Less than one day of space travel separates Earth and history’s first comet sample return mission. Today at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time (10:30 a.m. Mountain time), the Stardust spacecraft will cross the moon’s orbit as the craft makes its way toward […]

Canon 20D & 50mm F/1.4 prime; 1/100″ F/4 ISO-100
Taken 10 June 2005

From the archives:

Canon 20D, 17-40mm L; 17mm 1/25″ F/5.6 ISO-100

17mm F/7.1
18 July 2005, Spicewood Texas.

29 May 2005 — Spicewood, Texas

As I wrote in December, the future continues to brighten for the Hubble Space Telescope. While prudent to remain cautiously optimistic for the time being, it appears efforts to repair the orbital observatory have been gathering momentum.

The Hubble Space Telescope drifts through space in this picture, taken by Space Shuttle Discovery during Hubble’s second servicing […]

Stardust, NASA’s first cometary sample return mission, is hurtling back toward Earth and will arrive this coming Sunday. As I wrote previously, this mission is particularly exciting.
For a recap, check out this neat little flash animation courtesy of NASA.
Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Stardust mission return capsule will land Sunday, Jan. 15, at approximately 5:12 […]

11 January 2006
10:40 PM CST
95% waxing gibbous Moon
Orion XT10i & TeleVue 35mm Panoptic
Canon 20D and 17-40mm f/4L @ 40mm, f/7.1, 1/160″ ISO-100 Eyepiece projection
The above image was taken just prior to zenith transit. About ten minutes later I was treated to a gorgeous lunar halo, which was a challenge to frame even pulling back to […]