I can finally stop holding my breath: Discovery is getting ready to release the EBTL series. Well, it’s still a few months off, but you can register your email, and they’ll probably ship around July 13th: http://store.discovery.com/detail.php?p=257946&v=discovery If you’d like to see me and my buddies slug it up the mountain beforehand, you can even [...]

Like a proud father, here’s a family photo album of the Space Rocks a.k.a. nuggets on-orbit, and as they were repackaged just before launch. The resin in which the lunar samples were embedded turned out to be more flammable than we’d like in a closed environment like the International Space Station. Thanks to a number [...]