Columbia
Commander:
Rick Douglas Husband, Colonel, USAF
Pilot:
William C. McCool, Commander, USN
Payload Commander:
Michael P. Anderson, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
Mission Specialist:
Kalpana Chawla, PhD
David M. Brown, MD, Captain, USN
Laurel Blair Salton Clark, MD, Captain, USN
Payload Specialist:
Ilan Ramon, Colonel, Israel Air Force
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Palate Cleanser
Brought to you by the Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra instruments courtesy of NASA and JPL. Click on the picture to learn how the data from the three made this image possible. This is a supernova, Cassiopeia A, that exploded about 4 centuries ago. The resulting neutron star is the pale blue dot in the center of the image.
February 1, 2015 2 Comments
NRA Child Development
You may remember my mentioning a two-year-old killing his mother with the gun she had in her purse. Well, at three years a child is ready for trick shots.
From the BBC: US boy, three, shoots both parents in New Mexico
A three-year-old American boy has shot his mother and father with the same bullet after pulling a gun from her handbag, police say.
The incident took place in a motel room on Saturday afternoon in Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico.
The toddler was apparently reaching for an iPod.
The single shot hit dad in the butt and then struck mom in the arm. Again, a small caliber auto loader that was cocked and ready to fire with the safety off and dumped in a purse – that is not a sane way of carrying a firearm. This wasn’t an accident, it was a foreseeable, even probable result of reckless behavior.
February 1, 2015 13 Comments
