Comments on: NASA’s Most Difficult and Perhaps Most Important Shuttle Mission

By: Dan Satterfield

Dan Satterfield — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:30:33 +0000

Thanks very much Jon! I have learned to tackle subjects I want to learn more about. Writing a journal can be very educational, especially if you wish to be accurate!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:50:04 +0000

Dan, this is the best piece I’ve read yet about the mission later today. Haven’t had time to peruse the archives, but you can be sure it’s now up on my list.

Promoting you on twitter. I’ll send a few folks this way.

You are worth it.

By: Dan Satterfield

Dan Satterfield — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:37:27 +0000

Think of it this way. Imagine an object 15 billion light years away. That light has been traveling toward us since the big bang 13.5 billion years ago. It still has 1.5 billion years to go for the light to reach us. So we cannot see it, no matter how good a telescope we build. This actually gets into some fundamental mysteries of cosmology. Current thinking is that the universe must have expanded at greater than the speed of light in the first few milliseconds after the big bang- Cosmologists call it inflation.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:10:20 +0000

These truly are brave people. Lucky to have such a program stationed right here in North Alabama.

By: Chanda

Chanda — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:19:06 +0000

Love your blog!

Could you put a link to the post about the age of the universe or maybe the post is about how the light hadn’t reached us yet? I collect good descriptions. Sometimes the same things said slightly different makes all the difference.

By: Nicole B.

Nicole B. — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:06:57 +0000

I am so excited and hopeful for the crew!
I agree that science is not being supported as it should and often times it’s the parents who must take the lead and add that aspect into a child’s life. As it is with many things now a days, including art and music.
Some people see science as competition or threatening to their religion. That seems to stunt some people’s intellectual growth in the scientific arena.
I love science and God and can easily intertwine the two in my life without compromising either way. Hopefully more people will be able to support science and not be threatened by it. Depending on the physics theory being taught, science even backs up a ‘God’.
This is my first time reading your blog. I find it fascinating and educational. Thank you! I’ll be sharing it with my husband and daughter. I hope you have a good weekend.