Who knows what dim, multiform entities could yet lurk for silent millennia beneath that hostile, white blanket of impervious snow and unrelenting wind? Washington Post is almost ready… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.”
I never thought that within my lifetime, we’d be planning – as PopSci reports – to send flying robots to find aliens on Saturn’s moons:
… Read the rest “Drones of Titan”Physicist Jason Barnes
SONG: “Rocket Africa.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans… Read the rest “SONG: Rocket Africa”
NASA’s gotten downright cozy with that cute little planetoid:
… Read the rest “Closer to Vesta.”NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping
This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a lot of electronics. Not so many… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA”
I’ve just been reading TWO do-it-yourself space missions. Paul M. Davis, on Sharable.com, reports on a Danish project to construct a two-man space capsule:
… Read the rest “From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)”Kristian von Bengtson
New Scientist reports on one space-happy eBay seller who’s got some explaining to do:
… Read the rest “Not your rocket!”In a recent report, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) described how in July, it
PhysOrg sets our sights on a big, wet, lively looking lake on Jupiter’s moon Europa:
… Read the rest “Great Lake Europa (where the aliens may swim)”The water could represent a potential habitat for life, and many more such lakes might exist throughout
NASA’s hiring:
… Read the rest “Ever wanted to be an astronaut?”Job Title:Astronaut Candidate
Department:National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Agency:Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Job Announcement Number:JS12A0001
Wired says we should think about staying indoors for a while, because the probe Russia sent to collect samples from the Martian moon isn’t going to make it that far. It’s expected… Read the rest “Russian Mars probe crashing back to Earth.”
Discovery is looking up to a way to get satellites into orbit using balloons instead of rockets:
… Read the rest “Riding airships into orbit.”…[T]he now-retired NASA space shuttle was the Hindenburg of the space age. Like the
In case you hadn’t heard, China is building its own space station. Not planning to build. Not any more. Building.
The Tiangong 1 mission launched on Thursday from Jiuqian Satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Tiangong 1, by China Manned Space Engineering, 2011”
Not ice. Science Magazine shares some images of what they’re calling “the salty tears of Mars”:
… Read the rest “Flowing water on Mars.”Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, McEwen and his colleagues
NASA’s not landing on the moon – it’s not even firing off Space Shuttles any more – but it IS taking a long, close look at one of the biggest asteroids out there:
… Read the rest “Orbiting Vesta”“We
There was a lot of apprehension in Central Florida when the Space Shuttle was retired. They’re big vehicles with big missions that require lots and lots of support staff (read: jobs… Read the rest “Kennedy Space Center’s next job.”
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