Last Wednesday, ESA Netherlands organized a live media event at SpaceExpo in Noordwijk The Netherlands to watch the landing of Philae on comet 67P.
I was happy to be invited, and that I could share in the joy en excitement, when the signal of the save landing of Philae on 67P was received by ESA in Darmstadt and projected on the big screen at SpaceExpo in Noordwijk.
The moon silhouette video was one of Mark Gee’s major breakthroughs. When I saw it the first time I was totally perplexed by it’s beauty and simpleness. As an engineer I immediately noticed that the video was shot with a big telephoto lens. This also implied that the shot was taken from a long distance …
I love the work of Mark Gee. He is a fantastic photographer, how has specialized on celestial photos and videos. His work is right out magnificent and stunning and captures the Oh!, we all feel when looking up on a cloudless night or at a magnificent sunrise. Watching the Byron Bay Sun and …
Actually this is not entirely correct we don’t have one moon rock over here in Leiden, we have Five! Moon rocks. Real moon rock samples? Yep they are the real deal The Apollo project Back in the sixties America started a ambitious space exploration program, to get a man on the moon and bring him …