It's been 25 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. I remember being a kid in England and hearing about the accident. I remember I was devastated for the loss of life and everything it meant for NASA. I was and always have been a space geek.

Many years later, I still never knew exactly had happened and I was so intrigued that I wrote a research paper on it when I was back in high school. The paper itself was my very first web page that I had hosted on the school server and became a very well known article detailing the accident.

The paper has since been removed from the school site but is hosted under my site here under articles. To find out more, you can read, The Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

This past weekend, after talking with guests at a wedding I attended, I discovered a new space web site called Space Weather.

Space Weather

This cool site gives the latest information in the Earth and Sun environment, giving weather reports from solar flares, and other events that can be seen in the night sky.

If you are into star gazing, and would like to know more about the skies we look at at night, check out this web site.

Some of the images are amazing. My only wish was that I lived in an area that had less light pollution.

I've been up for about an hour now and I'm currently starring out up at our moon. It's a full moon today, but now the moon has changed color in the night sky.

For the first time that I remember, we are having a full lunar eclipse with the best vantage point being west of the Rocky mountains in the United States.

I wanted to take a picture but I don't have the correct equipment to really take a good picture.

We have hit the full lunar eclipse at this point at 3:38 am. The moon hasn't left completely, but is a bright red disc. It's the moon, but reddish. It's only what I can imagine Mars would look like if it were closer to us.

It is a really nice sight. I only wish I could capture it on film. Maybe another time.