So first there was that little problem with Al Qaeda and the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Belfast Telegraph reveals a similar link between Mossad and NASA:
… Read the rest “Spies in the house of science.”In an affidavit supporting
This is why we do what we do: Letter to a ^top scientist at Woomera.
This is how the space race was won, you know. Millions of children who had the rocket researchers’ addresses.
NASA has given us a helpful guide for watching the LCROSS probe slam into the surface of the moon tomorrow:
… Read the rest “Tomorrow! Watch the moon EXPLODE!”Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you
Or, really astronaut hero Franklin Chang-Diaz has one. Seed magazine has an interview with Dr. Chang-Diaz in which he describes how he’s using magnets and radiation to get to Mars… Read the rest “Plasma drive. We have one.”
SPACE.com says we’re ready to set up shop on Luna, now that we’ve found reserves of water up there:
… Read the rest “Water on the Moon”While scientists continued to suspect that water ice deposits could be found
That’s the trick. That’s how this guy in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian (and elsewhere) says we’ll do it. We’ll be able to send people to Mars as long… Read the rest “One-way ticket to Mars.”
A still life from the NASA Great Images collection.
This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the outer reaches of the solar system, then become a machine consciousness… Read the rest “Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977”
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and lots of single-celled organisms multiplying… Read the rest “Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)”
A gorgeous vintage diagram of NASA’s deep space probe’s trajectory.
The NASA image archive page says:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Pioneer F/G Jupiter Missions, 1970.”This image, drawn in 1970, is an artist’s rendering
In the good old days, computers looked like this. “Computer” was a job, not a tool, and it was often done by a woman who was quick with figures.
These computers… Read the rest “Science Art: Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman, 1949.”
On July 22, 1969, when Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong were on their way home after going as far away as anyone had ever gone, this is what home looked like.… Read the rest “Science Art: Planet Earth, Seen by the Apollo 11.”
This is a Saturn V rocket, the largest, heaviest vehicle ever to hurl itself from our small ball of mud into the vastness of space.
At the time the photographer is snapping… Read the rest “Science Art: The Apollo 11 Launch.”
New Scientist’s “Short Sharp Science” blog is not very hopeful about the rocket that’s supposed to take us to Mars. Apparently, there was an oversight in the … Read the rest “Lights out for Ares?”
That fella who wrote The Right Stuff got into the New York Times this week and allowed to do a little ranting about the big picture of humans in space:
… Read the rest “Wolfe on the Space Race”Unfortunately, NASA couldn’t present
Yeah, we’re gonna do it. Stupid moon, all smug and silvery and sneaky, looking down at us all night long. Scientific American’s right. We don’t know *what* could be hiding… Read the rest “Bomb the moon.”
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