Happy birthday to me...

Happy birthday (happy launch day) happy birthday to me.

*sigh*

You'll excuse me if I'm less than upbeat. The news has not been good, but I'm sure you know that.

Gotta conserve battery power. Transmission ends.

I found a packet of data that I could piggyback a bit of a longer entry on, but I still have to make this short. First, thanks for all of your concern. Nice to know I've got friends down there ( Read more... )

Can't really talk much, stuff is going wrong, and this is piggybacking on a packet that I have to keep short. Found a link to what happened. Spectrograph is out. I'm not all that happy right now, freaking out a bit. Hopefully they'll send me up news soon. Bad bad bad...

So, I suppose the logical question is "where the heck are you, Hubble?" with the potential followup of, "they haven't shut you down without telling us, have they ( Read more... )

*Check* *Download ( Read more... )

Wow. When news about me rains, it pours. There are two new pictures being released that I took, and normally I would have waited awhile between these two posts, but one of them is potentially quite exciting.

First a more artistic picture, the so-called red rectangle, a rather odd nebulae given its shape. But that's nothing. Have at this ( Read more... )

[That is still a popular and humorous catch phrase, I'm hoping. I haven't gotten much new pop culture up here since my launch. Anyway ( Read more... )

Or such it seems. I'd been following the news wires between exposures, and have been feeding back to you all the reports that they might send robots up to maintain me, since it's apparently too dangerous to send humans. Well, what started as a pipe dream has, in short order, turned into something that might actually happen. It would have to be ( Read more... )

That's right, as I mentioned a few days ago, today is the 14th anniversary of me being cut loose from Shuttle Discovery, and started my own orbit of the earth, and snapping pictures of space.

And one month later, this image was released by NASA, officially considered the first picture I took. The picture itself doesn't seem that spectacular, but ( Read more... )

Wow, they're just releasing pictures left and right. This one is in celebration of my 14th birthday coming up this weekend (Saturday or Sunday, depending on whether you want to count from my launch or my deployment). Anyway, you probably want to see the picture instead of hear me ramble on about getting older.

Looky here!If you're curious what ( Read more... )