“Traditional” transition of leadership from outgoing Challenger Chairman Bill Ready to newbie Scott Parazynski    At the annual meeting of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education (CCSSE) a couple of weeks ago in St. Louis, which included flight directors from most of our 50 learning centers around the world, I received the Chairman’s official [...]

I thankfully never leave home without my iPhone these days. Even though the camera resolution and aperture control isn’t the greatest in the world, I’m glad to have captured the following from my trip to the National Space Symposium and the Rockies…           Share and Enjoy:

Shuttle contrails and sunrise meet: what a beautiful canvas!   In the past 72 hours I’ve been misquoted in print and added as a signatory to a policy letter I never saw in draft form (and really didn’t agree with; my name has since been removed). Although I’m certainly not a government policy or budget [...]

    The crew of STS-129 took this nice photo of the P6 solar array repair the STS-120 Team did way back in November 2007. Exciting to see it hasn’t changed one bit! Share and Enjoy:

I recently had a chance to speak with my Challenger Center colleague and friend, Sawyer Rosenstein (who works as a Flight Director at a Challenger Learning Center), along with his fellow panelists Gina Herlihy, Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman on a space-focused podcast called “Talking Space” — check it out! These guys are passionate about [...]

WHAT: Retired NASA Astronaut Scott E. Parazynski, the only human to both travel into space and climb Mt. Everest, will speak at the AIAA Space 2009 Conference & Exhibition’s “Education Alley” Education Alley, AIAA’s innovative aerospace education program, will highlight the world of aerospace engineering and science to over two thousand Pasadena area students in [...]

A former astronaut and veteran of five space shuttle flights has been named a director of business development for Wyle’s Integrated Science and Engineering Group based in Houston, Texas. Dr. Scott Parazynski joins Wyle to assist in the company’s continued growth and diversification providing integrated science, engineering, and human health and performance services to the [...]