Red Planet dreams: what it takes to sign up for a one-way mission….
Medium takes a long look at the Mars One company, which has assembled 200,000 volunteers for a Mars mission that doesn’t yet exist: Despite not […]
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Little space package brings stuff home from the ISS, no astronauts required.
SpaceNews.com has more on the “golf-club bag” we’re devising for space station return deliveries: The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the […]
Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA
This was the insignia of the astronauts who built the ISS. Or a big part of it, anyway. STS 110 was the name of the […]
Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.
Sound like conspiracy theory, doesn’t it? But Space.com is reporting on the easily-forgotten OTHER space shuttle program – the
Science Art: A space-ship might look like this, John W. Wood, 1968.
Click to embiggen An image from Rockets and Satellites Work Like This, as found on the marvelous Dreams of Space blog. It’s a children’s book […]
MAVEN’s at Mars.
The skies over the Red Planet, as The New York Times and others are reporting, are getting downright crowded with satellites from Earth. The latest […]
India’s Mars probe ready to orbit
Nature reports on India’s preparations for their first interplanetary exploration: Mangalyaan, known formally as the Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was launched by the Indian […]
Thanks for the rides, former Soviets – Boeing and SpaceX are taking it from here.
NASA has formally announced that two private companies will be taking our astronauts to the International Space Station: The CST-100 and Dragon version 2 have […]
Best headline contender: “Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission”
The Guardian brings a small tragedy happening a long, long way away vividly home with 10 well-chosen words: Russia confirms death of five geckos on […]
SONG: “Rosetta”
SONG: “Rosetta.” (To download: https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/choons/grant-Rosetta2.mp3 ) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “‘We’re in orbit!’ Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit comet”, CNN, 6 Aug 2014, […]
The next Mars Rover will make its own oxygen from CO2.
Scientific American reports on the technology that’ll help humans explore the Red Planet… first with fuel, then with air to breathe. The next machine to […]
Rosetta is orbiting a comet right now.
Orbiting a planet is not that big a deal – moons do it all the time. And everyone you’ve ever known has orbited a sun. […]
Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]
Click to embiggen Look! Look at all the birds! I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about […]
Warp engines ready to engage.
Washington Post is ready. We’re all ready. NASA is ready. They’ve figured out a way (maybe!) to explore distant stars with warp drive: NASA engineer […]
NASA delays Martian flying saucer.
Who could resist that headline? But no, AP has it right – we’re the ones with the eerie, disc-shaped craft, and we’re trying to send […]