Signing Off...

Riding with Robots on the High Frontier: logo

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

- TS Eliot

JAXA/NHK

Family matters call, and now it’s time to hang up the spurs, at least for now. Thank you to the thousands of fellow travelers during the past few years who rode along. Your company on such an extraordinary journey was a privilege and a pleasure.


Thank you once again to the modern-day Magellans of many nations who dream up, build and fly the space robots. I think it’s safe to speak for all the riders here when I say: your work is worth it.


My apologies to those who recently signed up or who recently downloaded the widgets, as well as to those old trail hands who made the ride so much fun. This service may reappear in the future on some other orbit.

Until then,

Keep looking up!


Bill Dunford

February, 2009



To continue the ride, visit these official sites:


JPL, ESA, JAXA, ISRO, JHUAPL


and these unofficial sites:


Unmanned Spaceflight, the Planetary Society, Universe Today, wanderingspace.