“The first human-humanoid handshake in space.”
That’s how ISS Commander Daniel Burbank describes his interaction with Robonaut 2 yesterday. PhysOrg has more on the space station’s new, robot crew member: On […]
space exploration
Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.
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 […]
Drones of Titan
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: […]
SONG: Rocket Africa
SONG: “Rocket Africa.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans in space”, CNN, 4 […]
Closer to Vesta.
NASA’s gotten downright cozy with that cute little planetoid: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its […]
Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA
Click to embiggen vastly This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a […]
From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)
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: Kristian […]
Not your rocket!
New Scientist reports on one space-happy eBay seller who’s got some explaining to do: In a recent report, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) described […]
Great Lake Europa (where the aliens may swim)
PhysOrg sets our sights on a big, wet, lively looking lake on Jupiter’s moon Europa: The water could represent a potential habitat for life, and […]
Ever wanted to be an astronaut?
NASA’s hiring: Job Title:Astronaut Candidate Department:National Aeronautics & Space Administration Agency:Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Job Announcement Number:JS12A0001 SALARY RANGE: $64,724.00 to $141,715.00 / Per […]
Russian Mars probe crashing back to Earth.
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 […]
Riding airships into orbit.
Discovery is looking up to a way to get satellites into orbit using balloons instead of rockets: …[T]he now-retired NASA space shuttle was the Hindenburg […]
Science Art: Tiangong 1, by China Manned Space Engineering, 2011
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 […]
Flowing water on Mars.
Not ice. Science Magazine shares some images of what they’re calling “the salty tears of Mars”: Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, […]
Orbiting Vesta
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 […]