You might have seen on BBC and elsewhere that India launched a rocket to Mars. But have you seen the Quartz article on just how inexpensively they managed to do it?:
… Read the rest “India’s super-efficient Mars mission.”Christened Mangalyaan,
No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made with moon dust … Read the rest “This beer has the moon in it.”
Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll:
… Read the rest “Reality TV colonizes space.”“Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series
ABC (the American network) asks why send a toolbox into orbit when you can send one tool that makes all the other ones?:
… Read the rest “NASA launching 3D printer into space.”In NASA labs, engineers are 3-D printing small satellites that could
Space.com has more on the Wet Red Planet:
… Read the rest “Curiosity found water on Mars. Like, a lot.”NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about 2 percent water by weight. That means astronaut pioneers
Outside has an enticing offer for the world’s fittest couch potatoes and La-Z-Boy astronauts. A new NASA project wants YOU to lie in bed for 70 days:
… Read the rest “Stay in bed for 70 days, get paid $18,000, help the cause of space exploration. Hat trick!”According to NASA news chief Kelly
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and deliver 1,000,000 pounds-force of thrust to the… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn V S-II (Stage Two), NASA illustration.”
The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate:
… Read the rest “Kamikaze moon robot back on track.”LADEE took off atop a US Air Force Minotaur
Or at least speaks his mind, now that he’s retired. Houston Chronicle lets Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, put it all out there on what the agency could be doing better… Read the rest “Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.”
Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive:
… Read the rest “NASA engages the warp drive.”A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football with two
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010.
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders of the solar system, the plucky little probe is on the other … Read the rest “Voyager has left the building.”
BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the surface of the … Read the rest “A tsunami on the surface of the sun.”
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:
… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.
Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship… Read the rest “The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).”
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