If you have not tracked the installation of the Cupola—an observatory module attached to the Tranquility module (Node 3) of the International Space Station—earlier this month, more and better pix are popping up almost daily, courtesy of NASA.
And ain’t it great? As taxpayers these pix are yours and mine!
STS-130…
Dr. Kirtland C. Peterson—”Cat” to his friends and colleagues—feeds his left brain with science, his right brain with the rich feast of fiction, including SF and fantasy. Among his life’s highlights are sitting in the pilot’s seat of a shuttle prepping for launch at the Kennedy Space Center, and accepting Brannon Braga’s invitation to pitch Star Trek scripts at Paramount in LA. Currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Wave in The Mind: Talks & Essays on The Writer, The Reader & The Imagination and listening to The Hobbit, read most marvelously by Rob Inglis.
