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I may not be old, but I was born closer to men walking on the moon than to today.

Dragon should become the new Charizard.

YAY IT WASN'T SCRUBBED! LANDING SUCCESSFUL!

This is what all my acceptable photos look like over the past few years: I've finally finished going through all my photos and collecting the decent ones. Several photos were found and edited or re-edited.

Soyuz docking was confirmed. The hatch opening will occur about two hours after this post.

The Jupiter orbit insertion stream and the press briefing immediately following it:

I think the burn you see in the animations is off, it may be based on Juno's original Jupiter orbit plan. I updated my timer in an earlier post to when the orbit insertion burn starts. It's 20 minutes from now, 8:18 PM PDT.

A couple briefings prior to orbit insertion, with the more recent one first:

NASA had to decide by July 12 whether to send Dawn to the third asteroid due to hydrazine limitations. The mission scientists claimed that visiting another asteroid would be more scientifically valuable than staying at Ceres. Remaining would provide a relatively small gain in knowledge. I was...

Some information on Juno's magnetometer: GSFC: "NASA's Juno Peers Inside a Giant"

I think cosmic inflation solves the flatness problem without requiring an infinite universe. Actually, I may be thinking of homogeneity rather than isotropy.

Because the insertion burn is critical, data won't be gathered as mentioned in the article above. Perijove 1 occurs 53.5 days later, on August 27, when the first science data will be collected. The next Perijove will be on October 19, when Juno's period will be reduced to two weeks. JunoCam will...

I highly recommend watching these videos: https://youtu.be/aPStj2ZuXug https://youtu.be/JDmKLXVFJzk https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNA6WUmOsEEi32zi_RdSUF4i The expansion has been calculated, one survey found it to be 74.2 ± 3.6 km/s/Mpc. More distant galaxies are receding...

So SpaceX is scheduled to beat Boeing.

Took an acceptable photo of the September 2015 eclipse: The website's image compression is ugly. Going to try another place to host my photos, after I finish going through all of them.

I think the solution Elon Musk announced shortly after the crash is better: "Upgrades underway to enable rocket to compensate for a thrust shortfall on one of the three landing engines. Probably get there end of year." What SpaceX learns from these crashes are used to make the first stage more...

If the drone ship's cameras cut out upon landing, the first stage tends to have exploded. Elon Musk on Twitter: "Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship" "Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines...

JPL usually writes stories to accompany their videos and provide more information, like this.

Somewhat relevant: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." I'm not saying that they're distinguished scientists, but you get the idea. Don't know about...