Tag Archives: NASA
the space station (poem)
June 6, 2015 
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haiku #8 (2014)
January 23, 2014 0 Comments
obscured by my breath rocket rising in the east I forget I’m cold © Ron Sparks Watched the NASA TDLR-L Atlas 5 rocket launch this evening. The picture above was taken from my neighborhood on my iPhone over 50 miles from the launch. Awesome.
Continue readinghaiku #3 (2014)
January 19, 2014 0 Comments
the rocket launch; inside Orion a new star © Ron Sparks http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/events/2014/january/launch-atlas5-tdrsl.aspx
Continue reading My Publishing Strategy for NASA #Atlantis Social
October 31, 2012 0 Comments
This Thursday I get to participate in a NASA social event, celebrating the final journey of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy to the KSC Visitor’s Complex. Only 45 of NASA’s social media followers have been selected to participate in the event, and I am fortunate enough to be a follower so selected. As many of you know, I am an amateur astronomer […]
Continue reading Very Rare STS-134 and STS-135 Space Shuttle Memorabilia
July 10, 2011 1 Comment
I’m extremely fortunate to be friends with a NASA engineer who works on the Shuttle engines. My buddy Eric is more of a NASA nut than I am. Eric understood the historic and significant nature of the last two space shuttle launches, and he was in a position to create very rare and very impressive […]
Continue reading STS-135: End of an Era
July 8, 2011 1 Comment
As I type this, Atlantis is travelling over 15,000 miles an hour at the 8-minute mark of the historic last flight of the Space Shuttle program. The space shuttle engine just cut off – and will never fire again. I view this launch with mixed feelings, as I am sure most of America and the […]
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The Binary Biker 