space exploration

ScienceBlogs (and the Orlando Sentinel) are not sounding very pleased about Obama’s proposed budget for NASA:

As a final frying pan upside the head, you might require that NASA maintain

The Mars rover has been officially abandoned.

The Tech Herald:
However, although the Mars rover has now been written off in terms of fulfilling its core purpose of exploring the Red Planet’s

PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real:

Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks with the [Institute of Experimental

PhysOrg looks at the sunny side of the Mars Rover Spirit getting stuck – in exactly the right place to make some major discoveries:

“Spirit had to get stuck to make its next discovery,”

Glove is all they need. NASA, that is, according to New Scientist. They’ve got somewhere to go, but aren’t all dressed up yet – not without their one true glove.

They introduced… Read the rest “All they need is glove.”

NASA inspires my hopes again. I’ll look up at the moon and know there’s water up there:

“The full understanding of the LCROSS data may take some time. The data is that rich,”

Wired has me eager for interplanetary conquest with their look at our armada of airships and robotic rovers:

With the miniature lab tests complete, [Wolfgang Fink, of Cal Tech’s Visual

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:

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:

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:

While scientists continued to suspect that water ice deposits could be found