Archive for the ‘Space Shuttle’ tag
Time lapse movie of the final Space Shuttle launch
Here’s an interesting video of the final United States NASA Space Shuttle being moved from inside to the launch pad and then being launched. The launch took place July 8, 2011.
Here is the accompanying webpage from The Houston Chronicle newspaper.
http://nasa.gov doesn’t resolve!
Final shuttle launch from above, July 8, 2011
Earlier today while writing my blog post about the final Space Shuttle launch, I discovered that NASA, for all its space age technology, apparently hasn’t set up its website correctly as most organizations do.
In some browsers if you leave the http://www. off the front of nasa.gov, you won’t get to the website.
I tried this in disbelief in FireFox, Internet Explorer and Opera, and they all failed, so I think it’s a website configuration error.
In Safari, you can type just nasa.gov in the address bar and reach the website. But if you type http://nasa.gov, it won’t work, whether on a PC, a Mac or an iPhone.
In FireFox, Opera and Internet Explorer, you can’t type either nasa.gov or http://nasa.gov into the browser address bar to get to the site.
http://www.nasa.gov works in all the browsers I tried.
Try it yourself with these links:
I haven’t encountered this kind of misconfiguration on such a major website in many years. Hopefully NASA will see this post and make the fix as soon as possible.
