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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sound like conspiracy theory, doesn’t it? But Space.com is reporting on the easily-forgotten OTHER space shuttle program – the
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” (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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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