Today, July 26, is the 34th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 15.

-the other Doug

Keeping with the Apollo 15 vibe. Today is the day the genesis rock was found all those years ago.

I still recall watching that EVA live, and hearing Dave Scott saying "Guess what we just found. GUESS what we just found!"

-the other Doug

145:42:41 Irwin: Oh, man!
145:42:41 Scott: Oh, boy!
145:42:42 Irwin: I got...
145:42:42 Scott: Look at that.
145:42:44 Irwin: Look at the glint!
145:42:45 Scott: Aaah.
145:42:46 Irwin: Almost see twinning in there!
145:42:47 Scott: Guess what we just found. (Jim laughs with pleasure) Guess what we just found! I think we found what we came for.
145:42:53 Irwin: Crystalline rock, huh?
145:42:55 Scott: Yes, sir. You better believe it.
145:42:57 Allen: Yes, sir.
145:42:58 Scott: Look at the plage in there.
145:42:59 Irwin: Yeah.
145:43:00 Scott: Almost all plage.
145:43:01 Irwin: (Garbled)
145:43:02 Scott: As a matter of fact (Laughing) Oh, boy! I think we might have ourselves something close to anorthosite, 'cause it's crystalline, and there's just a bunch...It's just almost all plage. What a beaut.

I imagine all you guys are familar with the excellent ALSJ site. Really i can't say enough good things about it.

The ALSJ is superb - some of the imagery work there is good as well

Doug

31st October 2006 ... 70th anniversary of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory !

There's an online quiz ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/quiz/history/index.cfm

I question their question 4:

"What was the first planet to be studied from space by a U.S. spacecraft?"

The options given are:

1/ Mars
2/ The moon
3/ Venus
4/ None of the above

I'd say "None of the above". They say "Venus". What happened to the earliest Earth observations?

Andy

Another anniversary and JPL store made a special pin for 2 years Cassini-Huygens... The mission dogtags are also nice
http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/jpllab/

Fantastic, who made this quiz?

Probably the names have been changed to protect the innocent