Tyler Stoddard Smith

  • Our Super Bowl

    Sometimes Uncle Jake will get so emotional that he’ll eat all the seven-layer dip after disputing the apparent magnitude of a mumbled galaxy in the Hercules Cluster.

  • Letter from NASA: Some Things You Need to Know About the Mars Rover

    h4. “Probably the overall biggest risk is our lack of imagination.” _— "Steven Lee":http://www.nature.com/news/7-minutes-of-terror-1.11089, System Manager, Guidance, Navigation and Control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)_ The last time the...

  • Space Oddity: My Weird Year with NASA

    bq. _“Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don’t tell me man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go.”_ --Wernher von Braun A few years ago, I...