Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.
Click to embiggen vastly A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready. Though I wonder how […]
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SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the […]
Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.
Science magazine reports on the latest Chinese space breakthrough – one that could lead to instant communication with distant spaceships, or hack-proof communications here on […]
Mouse sperm survive in space.
Science News reports that DNA is tough stuff, and reproductive cells that were freeze-dried and subjected to months of solar radiation came back home just […]
SONG: Another Girl, Another Planet (penitential cover)
SONG: “Another Girl, Another Planet” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the […]
NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.
This is a little “inside baseball,” but I’m as much thrilled by Open Culture‘s description of this archive as I am by the existence of […]
Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).
Click to embiggen This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s […]
Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964
Click to embiggen This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space […]
Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.
New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes […]
Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962
Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]
The Martian Timeshare
Nature gives us a new context for exploring Mars, with NASA landing a rugged rover or orbital observer equipped with “generic” scientific equipment so that […]
Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and […]
Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry: At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics […]
Rosetta’s last kiss.
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the silent Philae lander: […]
Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA
Click to embiggen Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you […]