January 03, 2004
Mars Lander Update 10:50pm Saturday
Spirit Update
01.03.04
Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory watched intently Saturday night as the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit descended to the martian surface. At approximately 11:30 p.m. EST, telemetry from the spacecraft confirmed that it had reached the surface. The flight team was awaiting further confirmation that the spacecraft had stopped rolling. The lack of immediate confirmation was not evidence that a problem had occurred, as computer processing of the signals was expected to take some time.
Uploading some pictures to the Gallery today
I will be uploading some pictures from my trip to Los Angeles today. Among some of the standard ones from Disneyland, I will also be uploading some pictures of a couple Tall Sailing Ships from San Diego. One of which was used on the Movie "Master and Commander."
Hope you enjoy em.
January 02, 2004
Round Two as the US Rover attempts a landing tomorrow Evening
Tense Times as Spirit Closes In On Mars
I will be watching NASA TV tomorrow night. With my fingers crossed as usuall.
Goggle Hacks
I have been reading up on some Google Hacks. Look for some neat Google Search pages on my site in the coming month. If you haven't already done so. Get the book "Google Hacks". It is well worth the money. :)
January 01, 2004
Faster World Whirls Into 2004 (Discovery Channel)
Faster World Whirls Into 2004 (Discovery Channel)
Dec. 31, 2003 The world's timekeepers, who track time using an atomic clock and the rotation of the Earth, say our planet is speeding up.
Weather Station Back Online
I have my weather Station back online now. The link to see exactly what is happening around my house and Texas A&M is now underneath the animated radar in the Weather column.
December 31, 2003
Happy New Year
Well as the year closes on 2003 it has been a rough ride for this Spaceman, but not so rough that he feels beaten. On the contrary. I feel more optimistic that I will be moving up in the job market with my experience and will be better off financially than this last year. Although things will be tough, I plan to work hard to make ends meet and to find ways of improving.
This coming year will be challenging work wise as I know Texas A&M will not come through with the raise that I was promised, that is until they have to in Sept2004 and who knows what that will be with out Athletics Department spending money on everything but the people running it. Either way. I will strive to learn all I can to further my carreer and make the network stable.
As for my children. I will continue to see them when I can come up with the extra money to travel to them. I will in the mean time send them clothes and other things as I can, hoping that the mother will read them my emails and pictures.
As for my Friends in the world. I appreciate all your support and friendship and love that you give back to me. If it wasn't for you, I would have collapsed a long time ago under the strains of what to do in my life. You are the anchor that keeps me grounded when I need it.
On that note. I wish everyone a Happy New Year!!!!! Now Drink up and bring in the new year.
Terrorists Pose New Onboard Threat
Terrorists Pose New Onboard Threat
There is concern that terrorists who have flight training experience have either infiltrated foreign flight crews, U.S. intelligence officials told ABCNEWS, as the Department of Homeland Security ordered foreign airlines to place armed marshals on selected flights.
Bob
Dec 31, 2003 7:32 PM
Well... I wonder if these Terrorists are that far and deep into our airline industry. You just don't graduate out of an airline training school and land a job flying people around on a big airliner. I would be concerned but not too worried since all the checking that goes on now makes it almost impossible to get on a flight with anything that looks like a weapon.
Plus unless you haven't flown lately. The Pilots door looks like a Brinks Armed door with bullet proof glass to look through.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Working on the main page
I am working on some news feeds that will be shown on the main front Spacemanbob page before you get here. These will be some small changes to allow you to see all that I have going on besides my blogger and personal forum.
Don't worry though. I will not bow down to other sites and include ad's for products. NEVER LOL
Weather Update
I have my Weather Station Software installed now and will be working on getting the page up and running once again. It will be up before the New Year is in full swing. :)
December 30, 2003
Twin Rovers to Take Photographs of Mars (AP)
Twin Rovers to Take Photographs of Mars (AP)
AP - Like a couple of camera-packing tourists, two robotic rovers are schlepping enough photographic gear to Mars to keep the folks back home in pictures for years.
Bob
Dec 30, 2003 11:32 PM
I sure hope that these two Rovers that we are sending will make it to Mars and survive the entry to the surface below. Considering that they can travel 100 meters a day we will get more data and better shots from them.
First one lands this Saturday.
Cross your fingers.
Bzorg, the tourist
Jan 2, 2004 8:34 AM
what about the british thing...last I heard it landed and that maybe the antenna was pointing in the wrong direction...has it been declared dead or what?
Made it back Home. Finally...
Well it took me a while to get back home but I finally did it. Although it was a long journey and full of great moments in California I feel able to get some good rest.
I had some good quality time with my Friends. Dana is a great guy and I would have liked to spend more time with him. I feel sorry that I missed the directions and almost got lost on a turn off trying to get back but there will always be more times to come out and see him.
Mike and Kelly were great and as usuall I ended up just eating DimSum on Sunday. Now that was good. :) Yummy.
Now back to the home front. I got some good books and will now be reading them since I have some time off and will be making some changes as I learn them. All for the benifit of you guys. ;)
Take it easy for now.
