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Gene Kranz

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Tonight Gene Kranz, the famed NASA mission controller played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13, came to speak at UT and I was able to make it. I went with low expectations because I didn’t know much about him other than what I had seen in the movie, and just wow. This man [...]

Space Elevator

In one of my classes I was assigned the task of writing a feasibility study of an engineering project with a team of students. My team chose to write our document on the space elevator. It was really fun, this project is ambitious, but after reading and writing on this subject for the past six [...]

Ham Radio

I’m now in the cool part of my degree plan where we get to start doing cool stuff with the knowledge that we’ve acquired. This semester I joined a team of students that are building a CubeSat satellite, it launches sometime next fall. I’m learning a lot and its totally fun to be working with [...]

Burt Rutan Speech

In the process of doing some research for a project on campus, I came across this speech that Burt Rutan made back in Feb of 2006. Rutan has been a hero of mine for a long time. This speech is pretty encouraging, and exciting.

I don’t agree with every single point that he makes, but its [...]

Spring 2007

My spring semester starts in just a couple of days. The Christmas break has been a full month long, but sheesh has it gone by quickly! A week in Colorado, a week with family, a little bit of work and -poof-, the time is gone.
This coming semester I’ll be taking 13 hours of coursework, and [...]

ISS View Of Shuttle Launch

I stumbled across these images over at WarrenEllis.com. I don’t know how he came across them, but they’re just awesome.

I love it that you can see the curvature of the Earth in the background of this second one.

Very very cool.

I Think, Therefore iPod

My coveting has ended. I am now a member of the new generation. The iPod generation. I’m inches from receiving my second “free” iPod (a 60GB video iPod), so I went ahead and ordered a 30GB video iPod for myself.

I was debating whether to get a 30GB or the 60GB. I finally came [...]

Scholar Schedule

I’ve been too busy to finish my post, but I haven’t given up on it yet so you shouldn’t either. I ran into a couple of folks this weekend that commented on me not updating in a few days.
A couple of things are at work here. First, after a bunch of prayer I [...]

B-Day

Oh yeah, and before I forget, today is B-Dub’s birthday. Happy birthday!

Fly To Space

I just found the coolest flight simulator. If you’ve enjoyed playing with flight simulators, then you’ll love this one.
Are you tired of flying around in the atmosphere? Ready to experience flight beyond the reach of gravity? Of have you wanted to fly the Space Shuttle during re-entry? Well now you can. [...]