Welcome home, Hayabusa.
BBC News reports on the long-awaited return of the first probe to make it out to an asteroid and back: The Hayabusa pod was picked […]
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SONG: Golden Record
SONG: “Golden Record”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Partially based on “Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft”, Daily Telegraph, 12 […]
Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.
after Ann Druyan I send for you my heartbeat, the rhythms of my latest dream. You are just now finding the frozen clicks of muscles, […]
I**AM**V-GER***
That’s what Sydney’s Daily Telegraph wants me to hear when they tell me about a strange malfunction affecting the Voyager 2 space probe: But now […]
Watch out where the huskies go….
NASA, Discovery News reports, has just found evidence of life on Earth. By locating yellow snow: Using their Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the EO-1 […]
Space berries!
Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space: Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, […]
Obama brings back Orion capsule.
Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel: President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program […]
Tiny cube tidies orbit.
BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk: Residual air molecules still present […]
Science Art: “Rocket Ride Is New Planetarium Exhibit,” Popular Science Monthly, April 1938
Click to embiggen slightly Hey, look! PopSci just put 137 years of back issues on the internet for free. Science-aesthetic treasure! They’re at Google Books, […]
Plasma drive’s silver lining.
AFP takes a sunnier look at NASA’s budget trimming. Sure, the government agency said they won’t be landing people on the moon or Mars any […]
Life on Saturn’s moon.
The Telegraph teases me with the promise of life on Enceladus: Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft flew through icy plumes created by ice volcanoes and detected negatively […]
Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog. That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person […]
Last chance to see.
On 4:39 Sunday morning, go out and turn to face Cape Canaveral. It’s your last chance to ever see a space shuttle launch. Last. Chance. […]
Ships on Titan.
Well, this is a news item from before this week’s NASA budget came out. Think of it as a kind of desperate inspiration, perhaps, from […]