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Science Art: Reflections by NASA/Bill Ingalls

10 July 2011 grant b 0


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This is it.

This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch Pad 39A, Thursday, July 7, 2011. Atlantis

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Where’s Atlantis now?

8 July 2011 grant b 0

Live shuttle tracking is going on here, so you’ll know when to wave as the flight passes overhead!

Robot astronauts.

21 June 2011 grant b 0

I suppose automation just made the Space Shuttle obsolete (or, well, something like that). MSNBC reports that the latest supply ship to the ISS is unmanned:

The Progress 43 cargo ship blasted

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Voyager finds “froth” at the border of the solar system.

13 June 2011 grant b 0

Like foam on a wave, I guess – or a kind of magnetic barrier. NASA says they’re surprised at what the space probes are turning up:

“The Voyager probes appear to have entered

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Science Art (from new NASA exhibit): Titan, by Daniel Zeller (2005)

2 June 2011 grant b 0

This ink-on-paper drawing of Saturn’s moon is one of the 70 pieces in the new “NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration” exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum. Others… Read the rest “Science Art (from new NASA exhibit): Titan, by Daniel Zeller (2005)”

Endeavour’s last touchdown.

1 June 2011 grant b 0

Historic video:

That’s the second-to-last shuttle mission. Ever.

[via Washington Post]

The 100-Year Starship

23 May 2011 grant b 0

OnOrbit Alpha wants all you really long-sighted business & organizational experts out there to know the Pentagon’s research arm wants your help in conquering space:

DARPA

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I, for one, welcome our new astronauts.

29 April 2011 grant b 0

They’re squid. No, really. Science 2.0 has blown the whistle on the final Space Shuttle mission – the one that finally brings squid back to the stars where they belong:

So, okay,

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Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975

10 April 2011 grant b 0


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This is what an artist in 1975 (or perhaps three artists) thought the future of Mars looked like.

From the NASA-JPL description:

“Life on Mars” was envisioned

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To Mercury.

21 March 2011 grant b 0

The BBC warms up to NASA’s latest mission, which is about to get a close look at the planet Mercury:

Messenger has had to use six planetary flybys – one of Earth, two of Venus and

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Science Art: Saturn I Booster Test

20 March 2011 grant b 0



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Little version of a big rocket.

Photo from NasaImages.org:

A Saturn I booster model is set up for testing in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center’s 8’x6′

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Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.

27 February 2011 grant b 0


Discovery's final launch
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Reddit user Crooooow was flying from Florida to Chicago when the pilot announced that passengers could see something interesting out of the window if they looked quickly.… Read the rest “Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.”

Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2

20 February 2011 grant b 0

This Japanese Red-Bellied Newt was part of the payload aboard the Space Shuttle’s STS-65 mission, which carried a few odd creatures into orbit for the International Microgravity… Read the rest “Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2”

Science Art: PIA13755: Textures of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater, Sol 2476 , Mars Rover Opportunity & NASA.

16 January 2011 grant b 0


Opportunity considers the Santa Maria crater
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The Mars Rover Opportunity considers the textures of the Santa Maria crater on its 2,746th day on Mars. There are no footprints in that sand. There may never have been footprints… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA13755: Textures of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater, Sol 2476 , Mars Rover Opportunity & NASA.”

Merry Christmas from the ISS

25 December 2010 grant b 0

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
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  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
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