I Had A Wonderful Time Talking To A Group Of Kids And Parents The Other Night. We Talked About NASA,

Just a quick shot through the eyepiece. Not much, other than the black dot being a planet that is 3,000 miles across and is 57 million miles away. Plus, the big orange thing is another 36 million miles behind that. #space #astronomy #mercurytransit #mercurytransit2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xGXVhH9YB/?igshid=977uiy82c22m

If Alan Shepard can take swings on the Moon, then I call dibs on Mars. I’ll have Perseverance data to keep me out of the bunkers. @nasa @nasajpl #mars #perseverance #nasaperseverance #marsrover #mars2020 #mars2020rover https://www.instagram.com/p/CDsSY85nQoj/?igshid=192a1toh0qhtm

Lucy has just started her 12 year mission to visit 7 asteroids! Lucy Mission NASA Solar System Exploration #STEM #NASA #NASASocial @jbrackettssa @lucy_mission https://www.instagram.com/p/CVFeLFhLWwy/?utm_medium=tumblr

The Pleiades - Messier 45 Imaged with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / Observing With NASA Remote Telescope. Processing by John Brackett https://www.instagram.com/p/B5REi4HnAOV/?igshid=15vf2tgm5vbzj

“The Dolphin” - Located in the Southern Temperate Belt of Jupiter and imaged by the Juno Spacecraft. Taken on PJ16. Processed by John Brackett credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / John Brackett #missionjuno @nasajuno #juno #jupiter @nasa @nasasolarsystem #nasa https://www.instagram.com/p/B9N6dR-nTps/?igshid=1uonlxjmq96ie

It’s gonna be a long night! I’m super excited to be at @kennedyspacecenter for the Artemis 1 Launch! The launch is scheduled for 8:33am local. There will be a two hour window. If it doesn’t launch tomorrow, the next window is September 2, 2022. . . . . . #explorepage #artemis #artemisgeneration #stem #nasasls #SLS #orion #wearegoing #nasaexploration #solarsystemambassadors (at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch09ZFquI_l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Another Side Project...

John’s Side Project #248 - Tagging NASA footage for the National Archives.

If you know anything about anything, volunteer for the National Archives and Records Administration. They need people to do the things computers can’t... Things such as transcription, identification of things and places, and tagging films that have been digitized. For example, they have a collection of photos from World War I. These photos often have handwritten captions or locations that a computer can’t make out. It takes people to examine the captions and transcribe them for searching.

For my current project, NASA has thousands of hours of footage from tests and missions that need to be tagged in order to be searchable. This is where my insomnia is put to good use.

Oct. 2, 2017

Beautiful view of Mars below Venus this morning as I walked across the parking lot... 🙂

Submitted 3 weather observations today... 🙂

Processed 6 galaxy classification images this evening... 🙂

Too tired to listen to class lecture... 😴

A little bit history… and an exciting future. #saturnv #sls #spacelaunchsystem #nasa #nasaartemis #solarsystemambassador (at U.S. Space & Rocket Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRNrGmFDtwq/?utm_medium=tumblr

The kids at the Lilburn Activities Building learned about the Space Shuttle and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope today!!! They got to see what a Space Shuttle cockpit looked like when it was in orbit. The kids examined a piece of a space flown shuttle tire, and acted out the duties of shuttle crew members. To top it off, the kids took home Space Shuttle gliders, along with shuttle and JWST coloring pages! Special thanks to former astronaut, Terry Virts, for recording my introduction! The kids loved hearing your insights! #explorepage #space #stemeducation #spaceshuttle #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #solarsystemambassador (at Lilburn, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf9Xg3AujqY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=