[MediaMole]

This sort of exploration should be the focus of NASA. We should be sending robot explorers to all the planets to expand our knowledge.

Low Earth orbit should be in the hands of the private sector. As long as the government is in charge, we’ll be able to count the number of space ships on one hand.

[dragnet2]

Yep I tend to agree about the low orbit thing. It think the space shuttle program did about 26,000 earth orbits, while giving rides to all kinds of people.

Who could forget this image from Mars rover Opportunity.

I fell out of my chair when seeing this for the first time.

[dragnet2]

And a tribute to America’s Spirit and American ingenuity.

Spirit’s Snapshots of Mars

These views of Mars are just a small sampling from the 124,000 images returned by the Spirit rover.

With music, some nice surface images

Enlarge to full screen.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=97780842