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The party continues. Just minutes ago this Lunar Rover recreated by Polaris rolled through the streets of Huntsville beginning from the front porch of the Von Braun Civic Center and heading for the court house square where there is live music, food trucks and Dancing in the Streets until 9:00pm!
That’s Huntsville mayor Tommy Battle walking alongside on the back right in the sweat drenched shirt.
©2019 – Jim Casey
Just minutes ago this Lunar Rover recreated by Polaris rolled through the streets of Huntsville beginning from the front porch of the Von Braun Civic Center and heading for the court house square !!!
5000 model rockets reach for the sky at the Global Rocket Launch at the US Space & Rocket Center for the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
Hollywood has also been too grateful to be critical. Just look at all those wonderful space films, and space monsters, and space crafts, and Star Trek, and aliens, and time warps, and macro scopes, and telescopes…
One year to go until 2019 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.
In this shot, without saying a word, Buzz the most famous photographer of all having documented Niel Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, was saying to me, “use the flash dumb-ass.”
When it dawned on me after a little while – it has been 18 years after all – that I not only have photos of John Glenn, but had also published the the two columns, I had to go looking in the off-line archives to find the material.
Former NASA astronaut and Huntsville resident Owen Garriott has passed away. As an Astronaut with NASA Mr. Garriott spent 60 days on Skylab in 1973 and 10 days on the Space Shuttle Space lab in 1983.
2016.12.31 Apollo Saturn V Reverie
2016.10.16 Snowed In At The USSRC
TOA – RIP Neil Armstrong – Hero Of The American Pyramid.
Neil Armstrong Buried At Sea…?
Honestly, I really hadn’t even decided to roll out this morning to even attempt to get a shot of the Super Blue Blood Moon because I knew it would be low on the horizon, and I frankly don’t like getting up before daylight, much less in the freezing cold without so much as a cup of coffee.
Apparently the Internet handle “@” is the inspiration for the 2017 solar eclipse and North Korea’s desire to meet with apocalypse.
The historic event is over and now we find ourselves on the far side of the moon. In Huntsville “totality” only reached 97% but I got a pretty good shot.
TOCC TV presents The Moonman of the Year cover 2017, The Great American Eclipse !!!
The absolute optimum is actually early tomorrow morning, but hay, I’m done for the evening. You can still get out there and view this once in a lifetime event.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. It is really hard to believe. It’s actually harder to believe that it has been 15 years since I took the photo above at the 30th anniversary.
I just finished my photography session of the Venus Transit. Not having the best equipment for solar photography, I set up a reflective system using binoculars onto a white piece of cardboard…
