space exploration

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 the spacecraft is sending back

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 satellite, NASA has managed to identify

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 and setting

BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk:

Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft’s low-Earth orbit will

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 time soon. But that leaves more room … Read the rest “Plasma drive’s silver lining.”

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 charged water

So much for that final night shot: low clouds over the launch site.

So not only have the moon program and Ares rockets been shelved, but now the ground crew a/ didn’t get to light the big… Read the rest “SCRUBBED.”

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.

EDIT TO ADD: Space.com has video of what to expect… Read the rest “Last chance to see.”

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 the BBC. But it could be… maybe, somehow…… Read the rest “Ships on Titan.”