On Valentine's Day 1990, thirteen years after leaving earth, Voyager 1 directed its cameras back towards the sun and took a series of images of the planets, creating the first ever 'family portrait' of our solar system.
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| Image credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Cal tech |
Famed astronomer Carl Sagan spent years trying to convince NASA to have Voyager 1 turn around and take this picture on the way out. The picture is actually a mosaic that combines sixty frames.
The title of this post is the motto and catch-phrase for the peninsula's tourism org. If you think New Jersey had problems last year; they’re back.
It has been a year and a half since their last visit but I have irrefutable evidence of their return.
Yup - those pesky extraterrestrial beings from the fringes of our galaxy that periodically pay a call to the peninsula to vex me.
One of the patient and stealthy trail cameras recorded the return of their spacecraft as it landed nearby. Curiously, the visitation is right on time. I looked back at my records and captured photographic evidence plenty of times during the month of July.
On Thursday (July 24), NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, a flight engineer on the space station's Expedition 73 crew, spoke with the 125 participants from 39 countries in the International Space University Space Studies Program held this year in Seoul, South Korea. A medical doctor and a former U.S. Navy SEAL, Kim's parents immigrated from South Korea.
"I had a cargo mission come up that had some of my most favorite foods. So of course I had kimchi brought up. I had gochujang, which is a red pepper paste, and I had rice come up. So with those ingredients, and of course, some Spam, I was able to make my space version of kimchi fried rice. It wasn't as good as I could make at home, on earth, but in space you work with the best you've got, and I really, really enjoyed it," said Kim, after hearing that that the ISU attendees had also been enjoying the local cuisine.
Besides, do the people that re post these lame and lazy memes understand they're largely regurgitating content served-up by Russian and Communist Red Chinese troll farms?
You’re welcome…..
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore
returned safely to Earth today, March 18, 2025, after an extended
mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their mission,
initially planned for eight days to test Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft,
was prolonged to over nine months due to technical issues with the
Starliner capsule. Consequently, their return was facilitated by
SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, which successfully splashed down off the coast
of Florida.   
During their extended stay, political figures, including former
President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, alleged that the Biden
administration had neglected efforts to expedite the astronauts’ return.
However, these claims have been refuted by NASA officials, who
emphasized that the astronauts were safe throughout their mission and
that the delays were due to technical challenges rather than political
decisions.  
Therefore, the assertion that President Biden abandoned the astronauts
is unfounded. The delays in their return were primarily caused by
technical issues with the Starliner spacecraft, and NASA ensured the
astronauts’ safety and well-being during their extended mission. 
*Translation - Useful Idiot
Sixty-three years ago, February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the planet Earth.
He went on to become a United States senator and flew to space again on the Space Shuttle STS-95 mission.
John Glenn passed away at the age of 95 on December 8, 2016; a true American hero.
The Right Stuff is what made America great......
Having launched on December 7, was this view of the earth as seen by Apollo 17 crew - astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt - traveling toward the moon. 
image credit - NASA
This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Antarctica South polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the South polar ice cap.
Take note of the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible. The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the Northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the coast of Africa is the Malagasy Republic. The mainland of Asia is on the horizon toward the Northeast.
On this day in history, December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last manned moon mission. Two astronauts landed the lunar module Challenger, in a location called the Taurus-Littrow Valley spending three days collecting samples from the lunar surface.
image credit - NASA
Commander Eugene Cernan was the last person to set foot on the lunar surface as he followed lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt, back onto their space craft to prepare to depart the lunar surface.
Meanwhile, command module pilot Ronald Evans had to hang out orbiting the moon as he awaited the return of his crew mates.
Apollo 17 successfully returned to earth; splashing-down on December 19.
It has been 52 years since humans last explored the lunar surface.....
It has been a bit longer than normal since the aliens from outer space have returned to torment me. I was actually beginning to think that they had left for good. Alas, they're not chilling on their home planet. They're back.
One the ever vigilant trail camera captured evidence of their recent visitation in the photos that follow.
Spaceship at rest directly in front of the camera.
As the propulsion system powers-up and fires you can see the photons hurtling from the thrusters. With that it is gone in the blink of an eye!
Near the end of last month I published evidence of the possible return of extraterrestrial lifeforms around these parts.
I think the aliens read this blog.
How is it I suspect this?
Both their
visitations and the level of their belligerence has increased.
Trail
camera captured the blinding flash of the the alien space ship's
thrusters as the commander of the space craft fired space balls at the camera.
The camera survived unscathed.
Poor marksmen the aliens are.....
If you've been reading the news lately there has been a significant amount of chatter about unidentified flying objects or UFOs. It doesn't mean that we're being visited by extraterrestrial beings or aliens - but you never know. Here at The Platz there has been periodic evidence of aliens and UFOs over the years. Nothing that I've personally witness - but evidence captured by my trail cameras.
I have evidence that the aliens are back.
They've returned for their first visitation of 2021.
That's because the ever-vigilant camera captured their coming or going. Including this action shot of them firing their maneuvering thrusters on their spacecraft.
Spring peepers and whitetail snorts are optional.
Sixty years ago my folks allowed me to stay home from school so I could watch live television coverage of Alan Shepard riding a Redstone rocket in his Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule to become the first American in space.
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