In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design with a sphere living area,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center”
The Verge explains how a Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer have joined forces to make some pretty good music… and to save us all from an epic, planet-destroying cataclysm… Read the rest “Broken Bells – indie band, interplanetary heroes.”
Laboratory Equipment (and a bunch of other folks online) is following the story of NASA severing ties with Russia… except for the Space Station:
… Read the rest “Russian/American space tensions rise. (Rockets, not so much.)”NASA employees can’t travel
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration:
… Read the rest “Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….”On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET, join us for a live video conversation with space
The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back home:
… Read the rest “Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.””…Jade Rabbit – named
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter:
… Read the rest “Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.”ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h
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Universe Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover:
… Read the rest “Hey, You Two on the Moon – You and Yutu!”According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Mark Robinson’s
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk:
… Read the rest “Sailing satellites out of orbit”In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to generate the
Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction:
… Read the rest “Astronauts to use space snorkels.”U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all over the Red Planet’s pristine… Read the rest “Water on Mars. Not traces, but actual wet stuff.”
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars:
… Read the rest “Martian Lake: Life was (probably) here.”The lake, located inside Gale Crater where the
International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space:
… Read the rest “Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.”After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches last week, the 22-story
Washington Post reflects on the future of space exploration. Rather than the will of a great nation, today it takes a determined billionaire to send a man to Mars:
… Read the rest “Manned Mars mission in billionaire’s sights.”Billionaire Dennis Tito,
NASA has just taken chatting about the weather to a new level with MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution rocket, which just launched yesterday:
… Read the rest “Godspeed, MAVEN. Let us know what the weather’s like up there….”The agency’s Mars Atmosphere
The Telegraph reveals that America’s space agency isn’t quite as clean as it could be. A previously unknown bacteria has been multiplying happily in *two* rooms designed … Read the rest “New bacteria species discovered… in NASA’s “clean rooms”.”
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