Next week me and my mummy are off to visit Egypt, a trip I've been looking forward to for more than a year. Sadly, our jam-packed itinerary doesn't include much computer time, so blogging from the field is not an option.
A guard watches over statues of Ramses II in Abu Simbel
—Photo by David Boyer/NGS
Never fear. For the next two weeks I leave you in the very capable hands of my two colleagues, Stephen and Susan.
Stephen Mather is the science and environment producer for nationalgeographic.com.
He tells me that his favorite planet is Venus, and that he has been known to build and launch—but rarely retrieve—model rockets. He'll be keeping up with the latest planet news as well as reporting on a fun new project from National Geographic magazine that will launch next week, so stay tuned!
Susan Poulton is the vice president of programming and production for nationalgeographic.com and a familiar face at space shuttle launches.
She'll be keeping readers abreast of the latest developments leading up to the November 14 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, which is headed to the ISS to deliver some new household goods, make a few repairs, and switch out a member of the crew. Susan will even be live blogging from the launch site—a first for Breaking Orbit.
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying crew headed for the ISS blasts off the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 12, 2008
—Photo courtesy NASA/Bill Ingalls
