Friday, May 25, 2007

Aerospace Dollars at Work

I've always been a fan of NASA the aerospace industry, and today I read post on Metroblog Los Angeles that shows an image of the Catalina fire from space (provided by Bigelow Aerospace). Cool stuff. Visit the blog below for the image:
Metroblogging Los Angeles: Catalina Fire from Space: "Chris Reed from Bigelow Aerospace sends in this pic (click the above for much larger full version) of the fire on Catalina island, taken from space. He writes:

'We've put on our Web site a new image beamed down from Genesis I that shows a smoke plume emanating from the island of Santa Catalina off of the Southern California coast on May 11. More than 4,000 acres burned in the fire that forced the island's evacuation and threatened the famed tourist town of Avalon.'"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Quick correction.... Bigelow Aerospace is actually a private company and is not part of NASA.....

If they have their way, they'll be building the first commercial space station in a few years... Their site is www.bigelowaerospace.com.

K. M. Johnson said...

Thanks for the correction!