The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).
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 […]
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NASA answers 7-year-old’s letter.
Stay cool, space explorers. Never change.
Hey, @aliens! So this is where we are, and this is what we do! KThxBye!
Scientific American dwells on the implications of us – inadvertently AND fully intentionally – sending messages out to aliens: We’ve made a few attempts at […]
Rocket Africa: the next pathway to space.
Voice of America tracks something we were looking forward to here a while back – the blossoming potential of linking together Africa’s own space programs: […]
Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket)
Click to embiggen This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week. It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma […]
“Space Oddity” by Commander Chris Hadfield
If you’re going to say goodbye to the International Space Station….
Smartphone satellites. NASA’s sending phones into orbit.
LA Times reports on the latest low-budget, off-the-shelf NASA experiment, sending three smartphones into orbit: The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at […]
The best food in space is shrimp cocktail.
The Atlantic reveals a culinary secret of near-Earth orbit. Astronauts love shrimp cocktail – and here’s why: Without gravity to pull blood toward the feet, […]
Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race. This is an image of […]
“I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)” by Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies & The Wexford Gleeks
Does this sound schmaltzy? Usually things with a full choir and a key change after the bridge sound schmaltzy. I honestly can’t tell – judgement […]
Commander Hadfield gets together with Barenaked Lady.
No, he’s not doing *that* on the ISS. The commander is, like The Postal Service, making music via a long-distance collaboration… only his is with […]
Hello, Mars! This won’t hurt a bit.
New Scientist opens wide to tell us Mars Rover Curiosity is ready to drill into the Red Planet: Chemical analysis from one of the rover’s […]
Astronaut Chris Hadfield just wrote and recorded a song in space.
That’s it. Canada’s space hero did this on the International Space Station. You can hear the slight buzz of the station’s fans in the background. […]
Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision: Today. […]
Rivers on Titan
SciTech Daily salutes the latest Cassini discovery – first surface liquid spotted on an alien world: The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to […]