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Impact!

Someone in the Deep Impact control room said, “I can’t believe they’re paying us to have this much fun.” It really is fun. The mission was utterly successful, absolutely no glitches or hangups at the last minute. It was a…
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MIA

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks. My software project just finished FQT. It was scheduled to last 5 days. We’ve been doing dry runs of test procedures for the past 4 months. We had one last minute bug…
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Random

I’m reading in everybody’s blogs about how hot it is; it’s cold and rainy here. I had a breakfast meeting in Broomfield this morning, followed by a 9:30 am meeting in Boulder; when I started my car to come back…
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Rocket Science

I watched the Deep Impact launch in the auditorium yesterday with a couple hundred other people (don’t anybody call the fire marshal), including a lot of spouses and kids visiting for the occasion. It was a beautiful launch. Man, I…
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Things I don’t want to be reminded of

I remember going through this last year. It’s a good day to pause for a moment and think kind thoughts about Laika, who gave her life to space research. Thanks (maybe) to Fazia for the reminder. More detail at Sven…
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