Posted on Dec 14, 2008 10:31:45 PM | Linda Cureton | 18 Comments
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I just had a wonderful visit with my staff at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Many do not know that the Wallops Flight Facility is NASA’s ONLY owned and operated launch range. A short 45-minute “E-ticket” ride on NASA 8 takes you to one of NASA’s amazing best kept secrets (I suppose I am dating myself to say I remember when you had to have paper tickets for some of the “good” rides at
One of my superheroes, Scott Webb, gave me a scenic tour of the manhole infrastructure on
Along a marsh-wrapped causeway is a technology infrastructure that is reliable, scalable, and serviceable. It’s often easy to overlook the engineering fetes of the network superheroes when they do good work. It’s the loneliest job in the world when your infrastructure works – people forget you. It’s also the loneliest job in the world when Email stinks – people don’t forget that. It’s a tough gig to aspire to be forgotten. At first blush, driving along the road looks like dirt and round metal disks; but it’s an invisible marvel of technology that most people will forget. It just works.
And as NASA’s
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On Aug 22, 2009 12:15:57 AM
Michelle
wrote:
I happend to be there in person and had chance to see rocket launchers in person.
Find Solicitors- 17 On Aug 21, 2009 03:54:34 AM aarn wrote:
I have visited this place and trust me it was one of the most amazing experience we ever had.I would love to visit again to this plcae.
thanks linda for your post
regards
Contact center- 16 On Aug 20, 2009 12:05:09 AM jame wrote:
I have been in IT industry for more than a decade now and its really a pressure cooker job if everything is good you will get good apraisal else no one will look at you.
Lechuza- 15 On Aug 02, 2009 05:07:22 PM Linda Cureton wrote:
The Wallops launch schedule can be found here: http://sched.wff.nasa.gov/wffsched/
- 14 On Jul 30, 2009 01:28:53 AM guest wrote:
while on vacation my family and i visited wallops island visitors center. I saw a part of nasa that I had overlooked .I didn't realize that it was so close to philladelphia. I have been trying to find a launch schedule so my family and I could see a rocket launch in person. I remember watching launches as a kid on a black and white tv and a rocket launch in person is on my bucket list. if there is anything you could do to help me out it would be greatly appreciated.
- 13 On Jul 05, 2009 02:07:08 PM guest wrote:
I would imagine that trying to run infrastructure projects in space will be even worse that trying todo it on earth. Imagine networking up space!
dog sitter | dog boarding kennels- 12 On Jul 05, 2009 01:59:36 PM london wrote:
Having worked in IT support for many years I hear what you are saying :) You get no thanks when things are working but alot of grief when its not!
London Forum- 11 On Jan 14, 2009 07:30:16 PM Hany Pemilu wrote:
In my country, Indonesian, 70% its resident has not yet used internet/email, temporary in your country is discussing about send email to Mars. In a moment, when You already go to external space, and in our country its resident just uses email for communication.
Hany Pemilu- 10 On Dec 31, 2008 01:32:25 PM Linda Cureton wrote:
Dear Lee:
If I were to answer like Dr. McCoy of Star Trek fame, I would say, I'm a CIO not an Astrophysicist! But, here's a NASA website that may offer some answers ... It's Ask an Astrophysicist ... http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980301b.html- 9 On Dec 31, 2008 11:33:15 AM lee wrote:
I was talking to my son and he asked me about the temp difference
during a space walk from sunlight and the shade and what is the temp
thanks lee- 8 On Dec 31, 2008 01:19:56 AM Shante wrote:
no alian lives on mars for the post below but would be kinda nice if they did get to meet a different type of species out there
http://www.tycromedia.com- 7 On Dec 30, 2008 09:04:47 AM Linda Cureton wrote:
John:
Here's more information about the Mid-Atlantic Space Port.
http://www.marsspaceport.com/- 6 On Dec 30, 2008 03:17:39 AM John wrote:
Is the picture above of the space port u mentioned? i agree with you linda while e-mail has made a lot of things easy for us at the same time it does has its own limitations. These days i am in touch with me cousins in my city through emails n facebook but not in person. That does seem to be kind of social isolation. As they say " Everything has a price. " So true.
Resources- 5 On Dec 28, 2008 03:45:47 AM ajit kumar sahoo wrote:
sir/madam ,
i am ajit kumar sahoo, i heard a news that ( aaj tak hindi news channel) someone (alien) was found in mars, is that true? is there any life in space ? recently i heard a news that NASA has send one kind of music to space , why we spend a lot of money , where there is no life,
(this is my personal view)- 4 On Dec 27, 2008 06:06:57 AM http://wiki.nasa.gov:80/cm/newui/blog/trackback?id=5025 wrote:
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- 3 On Dec 27, 2008 06:06:31 AM http://wiki.nasa.gov:80/cm/newui/blog/trackback?id=5025 wrote:
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- 2 On Dec 15, 2008 05:40:45 PM Kay Myers wrote:
Linda,
I'd like to set up a meeting with you and Mark Waltham in Jan. I'm BD Mgr. for NASA for Sun Microsystems. We've met, and I'd invited you as a friend on Facebook. Thanks for banana cream cheesecake. Love to visit Wallops also. Have not been there.
Thanks, Kay- 1 On Dec 15, 2008 03:58:03 PM RollingThundar wrote:
Ok, I can't resist. From the imaging the Scenery on the Outside looks very beautiful and serene. But as you so eloquently stated, the complex infrastructure that is often hidden beneath serene beauty, is overlooked and forgotten, except by those whos' daily task it is to maintain and service, in order for it to work in an efficent and proper manner.
- 17 On Aug 21, 2009 03:54:34 AM aarn wrote:
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