SONG: Taste the Wind
SONG: “Taste the Wind”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”, as used in […]
space exploration
Tasting the solar wind.
Nature reports on the Parker Solar Probe, a ship with a mission to closer than we’ve ever been to the Sun, even dipping into the […]
Science Art: Cylindrical Colonies: Interior view looking out through large windows, by Rick Guidice
Click to embiggen Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space. From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future […]
Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft Main Instrument Panel, 1959.
Click to embiggen Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are. I like that there’s a […]
Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces! “Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed. Here’s how much room some of […]
Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky
Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]
Science Art: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), by NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepi, Dec. 17, 2017.
Click to embiggen More astronaut optimism, less everything else. From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan […]
Science Art: Apollo 8 Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968
Click to embiggen “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo […]
Falcon Heavy will carry Elon Musk’s car to Mars next month.
Ever the showman, Elon Musk has announced his plans (via Agence France-Presse) to not only launch one of the largest rockets ever into Mars orbit […]
SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”
SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months,” The Guardian, 13 Oct 2017, as used in […]
A spacecraft thinner than a human hair can clean up space junk
Popular Science gets the skinny on a super-thin satellite that cleans up the metal messes we leave in orbit: This past spring, the NIAC awarded […]
Tiangong-1 is falling to Earth.
But, The Guardian says, we don’t have to worry about death by 8.5 tons of space junk – probably: China’s space agency has since notified […]
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 […]
SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the post “Here’s […]
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 […]