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If James Cameron is so passionate about restoring the 3D camera to MSL/Curiosity, then…instead of lobbying, and urging, and taking his concerns to the NASA administrator, why didn’t he just pay for it out of pocket?

I don’t know that he didn’t, or didn’t offer to do so (the article doesn’t say), but it seems like the obvious thing to do for a guy with a passion and a couple billion dollars in the bank. Indeed, a sponsorship arrangement with NASA would have been a coup for both. Trade Cameron the rights to market the resulting imagery in exchange for underwriting the camera, let him produce a theatrical 3D documentary using it, and both win: Cameron cleans up at the box office, and NASA gets a great PR and education/information outreach opportunity.

Posted on April 29th, 2010 under Economics, Entertainment, Space Commerce, Space Science, Space Technology. Tags: 3D, Avatar, Curiosity, IMAX, James Cameron, mars, mars science lab, movie, MSL, nasa, rover. Comments: 1

Came across this display in the outer lobby on my way out of the office this evening – apparently, another attempt by the earnest young engineers squad to gather petition signatures in favor of preserving the program of record.

UPDATE: So, Thursday there were a couple of the aforementioned earnest young engineers staffing the table (presumably on their own time). The purpose of this signature drive was not, as it turns out, to encourage Colorado’s Congressional delegation to preserve the program of record, but to thank them for having “saved Orion”.

Which makes me wonder if there was a table like this at South Park West, where the LAS and service module teams are located…

Posted on April 21st, 2010 under Constellation, Orion. Tags: ares, Constellation, nasa, Orion, petition. Comments Off

Well, actually, at the left/”Progressive” counterprotest.

Posted on April 16th, 2010 under Miscellaneous. Tags: colorado, denver, hatred, moonbats, protest, racism, rally, tea party, violence. Comments Off

This has been out for a while now – don’t know how I missed it. “That’s trouble of some kind, George!”

Posted on April 9th, 2010 under Uncategorized. Tags: amateur video, challenger, disaster, explosion, nasa, Shuttle, STS-51L. Comments: 6

Finally got the time to upload the longer version of the video of Monday’s launch.

Posted on April 9th, 2010 under Space Technology. Tags: canaveral, discovery, HD video, kennedy, launch, nasa, Shuttle, STS-131. Comments Off