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ISS must have slipped into cloaked mode as I see only eight images, not ten. ????

DirecTv guide for NASA TV doesn't show coverage for the event on the 4th. Anybody know anything about that?

I always enjoy going back to Canaveral even though it's only through a spectacular photo'. Your last line should have the word "apparently" before "motionless". I assert the satellite will have considerable inertial velocity.

And the payload was what? I guess I missed that part. In my experience*, a proof of concept (POC) always required a payload of some kind. Even the Soviets were aware of that - a transmitter sending out beeps in Sputnik I, and a dog in one of their later endeavors. To compare this to the grand achiev...

By extrapolating from a carefully selected and limited data set one could project nearly any desired conclusion. Why wasn't the data for the period from 1990 to 2008 included? It is always bad methodology to extrapolate far into the future based on a small data sample. Those who are promulgating the...

I think you're right about the HAT. I searched all the APOD Shuttle pictures, but found none that shows the bird on the pad prelaunch. However, the picture of 1995 Aug 6 shows the HAT swung clear immediately after launch. BTW there is no top restraint when the Shuttle is mounted on the Crawler. See,...

In today's (2006 Sep 13) picture of Atlantis, there's a strange object in top center foreground. What is it

I was going to ask the following question. If Neptune emits more light than it receives from the Sun, then why do we see a shadow? It would seem that, were the generated radiation in the visible range, the solar radiation would be washed out. :idea: Maybe, it's not visible light. So what is it? IR? ...