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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dateline: Space, New York Times “Before Friendship 7, handheld photography in space was “thought to be a distraction,” said Scott E. Parazynski, a former astronaut. “But as people saw these images, they realized they weren’t just pretty pictures and it was imperative to photograph up there.” Photographing in a space suit can be tricky. It [...]

Image: Scott Parazynski look at the moon rock on exhibition in the National Museum of Anthropology of San Salvador, Laprensa Parazynksi: Me gustaría ver a un astronauta salvadoreño (Parazynski: I would like to see a Salvadoran astronaut) “Parazynski, recién retirado de la estadounidense Administración Nacional de Aeronáutica y Espacio (NASA), dio esta tarde una charla magistral [...]

Astronaut Scott Parazynski and Sherpa Danuru check in from Everest base camp after their successful summit at Mount Everest. Scott, who has flown on five shuttle mission and completed 7 spacewalks, told Miles O’Brien the experience was “the most challenging thing I have ever done.” Post-summit Skype with Miles, Danuru and Keith Share and Enjoy:

Keith Cowing: If you’ve ever seen a Starfleet away team beaming down to a new planet, you know that the first thing they do is whip out their tricorder and scan everything. They then promptly tell their commander what sort of life forms, geology, atmosphere, etc. surrounds them. I have always wanted a tricorder. So [...]

Astronaut Scott Parazynski is learning his bid to summit Everest can be a lot like a shuttle launch – heavily dependent on the whims of weather. The window for “topping off” – as they say in the mountaineering biz – is now “moving to the right” – as they say in the rocket biz. For [...]

“Astronaut and soon to be Everest Summiteer (we hope) Scott Parazynski checked in for a Skype vidchat with me a short time ago. This five-time shuttle flier and veteran spacewalker admitted he has some butterflies as the summit date approaches. Given the weather conditions areound Everest now, his team leader Eric Simonsen is expecting to [...]

Scott at Everest – with the Sun Shining, Miles O’Brien “Eventually, we are going to get these vidchats from Everest Base Camp down to a science. At 11pm EDT on Wednesday – 8:45am Thursday at EBC, I spoke with Scott Parazynski and Keith Cowing. The weather is much better at this time of day there [...]