http://www.periapsis.org/ The closest thing to a home page for Robby Stephenson en-us robby@periapsis.org Wed, 28 May 2008 06:30:56 -0800 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:06:31 -0800 Tim Cavanaugh wrote an editorial on JPL and Charles Elachi before the Phoenix landing. But for at least the last... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/05/28/cute_little_rovers.html JPL's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet yesterday. Very exciting! My girlfriend and I went to... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/05/26/phoenix_has_landed.html It looks like JPL is going to join the blogging age, and have a Phoenix Landing Blog. That should be... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/05/21/kickoff_for_phoenix_landing_blog.html As seen at NasaWatch... Steve Squyres on the Colbert Report... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/04/18/steve_squyres_on_colbert_report.html From Asa, I saw that NASA had directed JPL to get ready to hibernate one of the Mars rovers in... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/03/25/dont_kill_the_rover.html NASA Administrator Michael Griffin gave a speech last week at the Goddard Symposium, and his speech mentioned quite a bit... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/03/11/griffin_mentions_lro.html Space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 2:28 a.m. EDT on March 11, 2008, on... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/03/11/nasa_and_esa_with_launches.html I came across a great blog article with a ton of photos showing the Space Shuttle mating and launch transformation.... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/03/10/shuttle_preflight_photos_assembly_mating_transportation.html I was reminded earlier this week about the status pages for the Mars Rover, for Spirit and for Opportunity. Spirit... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/02/29/mer_status_page.html Space Shuttle Atlantis landed successfully earlier this week from the STS-122 mission. The Astronomy picture of the Day for Tuesday... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/02/22/sts122_and_columbus.html As seen on the Planetary Society's blog, Mars wishes you a nice day. This picture of a crater resembling a... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/02/07/be_happy_martian.html Image above: As dawn breaks over the Space Coast of Florida, space shuttle Atlantis stands poised for launch. Photo... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/02/07/sts122.html Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic rolled out SpaceShipTwo last week, what is expected to be the first commercially-available space... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/01/29/spaceshiptwo.html I am a custodian of a great human adventure. So says the LA Times, so it must be true. I... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2008/01/17/bargain_basement_imposition.html Hey, who knew. MIT has an instrument on the Voyager 2 spacecraft! Evidently, the Plasma Science instrument is still going... http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2007/12/19/voyagers_crossing_the_termination_shockwave.html