SONG: “Another Girl, Another Planet” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April… Read the rest “SONG: Another Girl, Another Planet (penitential cover)”
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 the archive itself. It does… Read the rest “NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.”
This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s.… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).”
This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space program twice … Read the rest “Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964”
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 fly through all the time:
… Read the rest “Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.”We have long
Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”
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 lots of people … Read the rest “The Martian Timeshare”
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 how they’d look while… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry:
… Read the rest “Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.””At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics Martian soil somewhat,
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 … Read the rest “Rosetta’s last kiss.”
Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you remember him. This… Read the rest “Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA”
Reuters reports on the goal being set for the world to see – one of China’s top space officials says they’ll put a human on the moon by 2036:
… Read the rest “China’s going to land a person on the moon.”China must “raise its
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next:
… Read the rest “Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.”Bigelow Aerospace, which just sent an inflatable room to
NASA has some of the best perspectives on the planet (and some of the planet’s best perspectives).
Like so.
This is a for-real spaceship looking plenty space operatic,… Read the rest “Science Art: ISS016-E-032414 (Underside of Space Shuttle Endeavour), 2008”
This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to the noise of a rocket launch… which, of course,… Read the rest “Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h”
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