• Axe to Run Super Bowl Commercial Featuring Space Tourism

    Updated: 2013-01-31 00:57:57
    Axe, the company devoted to men’s toiletries will be running a commercial on Super Bowl Sunday featuring space tourism. In fact, space tourism is supposed to be a backdrop to promoting men’s underarm deodorant and other essentials. But, Axe is also putting their money where their mouths are, so to speak, in that they are [...]

  • Satellite Image Shows Eastern U.S. Severe Weather System

    Updated: 2013-01-30 22:45:53
    . Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Satellite Image Shows Eastern U.S . Severe Weather System By Keith Cowing Posted January 30, 2013 5:45 PM View Comments NOAA NOAA GOES-13 Image Taken on 30 Jan 2013 at 1825 UTC A powerful cold front moving from the central United States to the East Coast is wiping out spring-like temperatures and replacing them with winter-time temperatures with powerful storms in between . An image released from NASA using data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite provides a stunning look at the powerful system that

  • Doug Messier, Tuesday, 1-29-13

    Updated: 2013-01-30 18:55:53
    Doug Messier, Tuesday, 1-29-13 http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1939-BWB-2013-01-29.mp3 Guest:  Doug Messier.  Topics:  Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic informed consent, liability, & contract issues per www.parabolicarc.com & much more.  Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts [...]

  • Today on New Scientist: 30 January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-30 18:00:00
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  • Surfer rides highest wave ever caught

    Updated: 2013-01-30 14:18:00
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  • South Korea Launches Satellite into Orbit

    Updated: 2013-01-30 11:42:40
    Spurred by rival North Korea's launch in December, South Korea on Wednesday appeared to have successful placed a small science satellite into orbit. ->

  • Rocket Launch Colors the Sky Red With Lithium

    Updated: 2013-01-30 04:01:59
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Rocket Launch Colors the Sky Red With Lithium By Keith Cowing Posted January 29, 2013 11:01 PM View Comments NASA WFF Lithium Trails NASA successfully launched a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket at 5:50 p.m . EST this evening from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia . During the flight , two red-colored lithium vapor trails were produced . Reports from those viewing the launch or vapor trails came from as far away as the Outer Banks , N.C . eastern Pennsylvania and New . Jersey Two

  • Andromeda's Colorful Rings

    Updated: 2013-01-29 19:35:23
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Andromeda's Colorful Rings By Keith Cowing Posted January 29, 2013 2:35 PM View Comments ESA Andromeda The ring-like swirls of dust filling the Andromeda galaxy stand out colorfully in this new image from the Herschel Space Observatory , a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation . The glow seen here comes from the longer-wavelength , or far , end of the infrared spectrum , giving astronomers the chance to identify the very coldest dust in our galactic neighbor . These light

  • When a Planet Behaves Like a Comet

    Updated: 2013-01-29 19:30:33
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology When a Planet Behaves Like a Comet By Keith Cowing Posted January 29, 2013 2:30 PM View Comments ESA Venus' Ionosphere ESA's Venus Express has made unique observations of Venus during a period of reduced solar wind pressure , discovering that the planet's ionosphere balloons out like a comet's tail on its . nightside The ionosphere is a region of weakly electrically charged gas high above the main body of a planet's atmosphere . Its shape and density are partly controlled by the internal magnetic

  • Today on New Scientist: 29 January 2013

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  • Tennis, Anyone?

    Updated: 2013-01-29 17:51:20
    When she wasn't playing tennis on the wing of a biplane in flight, Gladys Roy was dancing the Charleston.

  • SSTL to build weather satellite constellation for Taiwan

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  • UKube-1 animation

    Updated: 2013-01-29 15:21:38
    An animation of the UKube-1 technology development cubesat, under development for UKSA by Clyde Space.

  • Apollo's Children: website

    Updated: 2013-01-29 15:15:15
    Particle physicist and science broadcaster Prof. Brian Cox has announced a website <a href="http://www.apolloschildren.com/index.php"Apollo's Children to coincide with the release of the BBC television series Wonders of Life

  • Vacancy for Writer: All About Space

    Updated: 2013-01-29 15:09:09
    Imagine Publishing is listing a vacancy for a staff writer for its magazine All About Space: Staff Writer - All About Space

  • Stellar Effervescence on Display

    Updated: 2013-01-29 01:19:39
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Stellar Effervescence on Display By Keith Cowing Posted January 28, 2013 8:19 PM View Comments NASA superbubble DEM L50 This composite image shows the superbubble DEM L50 a.k.a . N186 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from . Earth Superbubbles are found in regions where massive stars have formed in the last few million years . The massive stars produce intense radiation , expel matter at high speeds , and race through their evolution to explode as supernovas . The winds

  • Iran Sends a Monkey into Space

    Updated: 2013-01-28 21:30:28
    According to Iran state media, Iran launched a suborbital rocket last week with a monkey onboard and recovered the capsule a short time later with the monkey still alive. The space capsule was code-named Pishgam (Pioneer).

  • Iran launches monkey into space

    Updated: 2013-01-28 20:20:00
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  • Today on New Scientist: 28 January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-28 18:02:08
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  • Gas flares from Bakken fracking are visible from space

    Updated: 2013-01-28 17:20:23
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  • Rocketeers now on Google Currents

    Updated: 2013-01-28 00:07:17
    Rocketeers is now available to browse on your tablet or smartphone via the Google Currents app.

  • TSB Funding: Harwell Space Launchpad

    Updated: 2013-01-27 20:09:24
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  • NASA celebrates its fallen astronauts

    Updated: 2013-01-27 09:06:04
    This should be the saddest week of the year for NASA — hich is marking the anniversaries of three fatal tragedies, including the 10th anniversary of the shuttle Columbia's catastrophic breakup. But the way NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sees it, this week is not ju hellip;

  • Alan Bond is keynote speaker at UKSEDS conference

    Updated: 2013-01-26 22:31:43
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  • Dr David Parker appointed head of UK Space Agency

    Updated: 2013-01-26 22:15:53
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  • £25M investment in National Space Technology Programme

    Updated: 2013-01-26 22:10:22
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  • How space is benefiting the UK economy

    Updated: 2013-01-26 22:00:36
    <p(Source: BBC Radio 4) BBC Radio 4 news and current affairs programme The World Tonight discusses how the space sector is benefiting the UK economy: The World Tonight: 10 Jan 2013

  • 'Changing the Economics of Space': Lecture by Sir Martin Sweeting

    Updated: 2013-01-26 21:55:43
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  • [VIDEO] Deep Space Industries press conference 22.01.13

    Updated: 2013-01-26 21:40:53
    Video of the press conference given by asteroid mining venture Deep Space Industries, fronted by British-born meteorite hunter Geoff Notkin:

  • Today on New Scientist: 25 January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-25 18:00:00
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  • NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record

    Updated: 2013-01-25 17:00:33
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record By Keith Cowing Posted January 25, 2013 12:00 PM View Comments NASA Super-Tiger Flying high over Antarctica , a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size . The record-breaking balloon , carrying the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder Super-TIGER experiment , has been afloat for 46 days and is on its third orbit around the South . Pole This is an outstanding achievement for NASA's Astrophysics

  • The Science behind the Speed: Bloodhound SSC book

    Updated: 2013-01-25 13:07:05
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  • Dr. Duane Graveline, Friday, 1-25-13

    Updated: 2013-01-25 02:25:47
    Dr. Duane Graveline, Friday, 1-25-13 Co-Host Heather Archuletta http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1936-BWB-2013-01-25.mp3 Guests: Dr. Duane Graveline, Heather Archuletta.  Topics: Bed rest microgravity simulation studies. Dr. Graveline is the father of this research. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com.  Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space [...]

  • RM2 hot fire tests

    Updated: 2013-01-25 00:53:51
    There have been two recent test firings of the RM2 hybrid motor for the SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, on 20 December, and 8 January. Doug Messier comments on what the test summaries tell us, and more importantly, what they don't tell us... Latest SpaceShipTwo Rocket Motor Tests -- Parabolic Arc

  • UKSEDS National Student Space Conference 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-25 00:41:35
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  • Tight squeeze forces cells to take their medicine

    Updated: 2013-01-24 18:30:04
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  • Today on New Scientist: 24 January 2013

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  • John Batchelor “Hotel Mars,” Wednesday, 1-23-13

    Updated: 2013-01-24 17:08:50
    John Batchelor “Hotel Mars,” Wednesday, 1-23-13 http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1935-BWB-2013-01-23.mp3   Guests:  John Batchelor, Wayne White, Dr. David Livingston:  Topics: Space law, space property rights, asteroid mining.  You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space [...]

  • Helen Sharman: An interview with Britain's first astronaut

    Updated: 2013-01-24 16:03:34
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  • Reaction Engines 'to grow to 150 in five years'

    Updated: 2013-01-24 15:58:52
    The Oxford Mail has a brief article on the Reaction Engines Skylon project, including mention that the company intends to grow to at least 150 employees in the next five years:- Revolutionary space plane could send tourists into orbit -- Oxford Mail

  • Manned spaceflight on the plateau

    Updated: 2013-01-24 15:51:36
    Manned spaceflight on the plateau -- Astronautical Evolutions

  • International Astronomy Show: 17-18 May 2013

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  • Today on New Scientist: 23 January 2013

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  • Pure colour mixing gets laser power

    Updated: 2013-01-23 17:49:00
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  • 13 new technology payloads selected from AFO5

    Updated: 2013-01-22 23:51:28
    : ABOUT RESOURCES BLOG LOG IN www.nasa.gov oct → Opportunities Technologies Campaigns Platforms Blog 13 new technology payloads selected from AFO5 Tuesday , January 22, 2013 Today's announcement of the AFO5 selection of 13 new technology : payloads WASHINGTON NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 13 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles , balloons and a commercial parabolic aircraft in 2013 and 2014. The flights will allow participants to demonstrate their technologies to the edge of space and back , before committing them to the harsh and unforgiving conditions of spaceflight . The vehicles that will carry these payloads will include Las Vegas-based Zero-G Corporation's parabolic airplane and high altitude balloons from Near

  • Today on New Scientist: 22 January 2013

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  • Betelgeuse Braces for a Collision

    Updated: 2013-01-22 17:54:20
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Betelgeuse Braces for a Collision By Keith Cowing Posted January 22, 2013 12:54 PM View Comments ESA Betelgeuse Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse , the nearest red supergiant star to Earth , in this new image from ESA's Herschel space observatory . The star and its arc-shaped shields could collide with an intriguing dusty wall' in 5000 . years Betelgeuse rides on the shoulder of the constellation Orion the Hunter . It can easily be seen with the naked eye in the northern hemisphere winter

  • 3D sonar uncovers skeleton of Civil War battleship

    Updated: 2013-01-22 17:06:00
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  • Today at New Scientist: 21 January 2013

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  • Jim Muncy, Sunday, 1-20-13

    Updated: 2013-01-21 17:47:13
    Jim Muncy, Sunday, 1-20-13 http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1933-BWB-2013-01-20.mp3 Guest:  Jim Muncy.  Topics: Comprehensive space policy & commercial space discussion.  Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our [...]

  • Supernova-powered bow shock creates cosmic spectacle

    Updated: 2013-01-21 00:31:00
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  • NASA SpaceX's Merlin engines good to go' for ISS trip FLORIDA TODAY floridatoday.com

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  • NASA planet-hunter is injured and resting

    Updated: 2013-01-18 23:33:00
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  • The First Presidential Flight

    Updated: 2013-01-18 21:19:08
    Nowadays the U.S. President has his own airplane. But for Franklin Roosevelt in 1943, flying was still a big deal.

  • Today on New Scientist: 18 January 2013

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  • Megaballoon launches big bang telescope in Antarctica

    Updated: 2013-01-18 17:54:00
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  • John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 1-16-13

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    John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 1-16-13 http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1931-BWB-2013-01-16.mp3 Guests:  John Batchelor, Gerald Nordley, Dr. David Livingston:  Topics:  Kepler Space Telescope & extrasolar planets.  You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show [...]

  • Today on New Scientist: 17 January 2013

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  • Son of Transhab

    Updated: 2013-01-17 15:48:41
    NASA buys back its own technology for inflatable space modules.

  • A (New) Mexican Standoff at the Old Spaceport

    Updated: 2013-01-16 23:06:38
    Parabolic Arc has a detailed analysis of the financial arrangements between Virgin Galactic and the management of Spaceport America, and discusses current legal disagreements over liability law which threaten to halt spaceplane operations before they begin: A (New) Mexican Standoff at the Old Spaceport -- Parabolic Arc

  • MSc Space Exploration Development Systems (SEEDS)

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  • BBC Sky Balloon launch

    Updated: 2013-01-16 22:51:53
    BBC Northern Ireland gets into the "near space" balloon launch game, as part of Stargazing Live:

  • 'History Today' features the BIS

    Updated: 2013-01-16 22:47:07
    <pHistory Today features a brief background article celebrating 80 years of the British Interplanetary Society: Reaching for the Stars -- History Today

  • Chris Welch: The Institute of Interstellar Studies

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  • Airborne Engineering tests 'Syrtis' rocket engine for Martian ISRU propellants

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  • UK student teams selected for REXUS and BEXUS launch campaigns

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  • Alba Orbital in national startup competition

    Updated: 2013-01-12 13:12:15
    Space burial firm Alba Orbital has reached the national stages of the Shell LiveWIRE competition for startups by young entrepreneurs:- News | Meet the shortlist for December's Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards -- Shell LiveWIRE

  • Unilever Buys 22 Flights on XCOR Aerospace's Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft For Global AXE Campaign

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  • Virgin Galactic starts paying rent to Spaceport America

    Updated: 2013-01-11 17:07:43
    New Mexico state officials have confirmed that Virgin Galactic will be making their first rent payment this month as anchor tenants of the Spaceport America facilities. The first SpaceShipTwo flights from Spaceport America could start late this year. Virgin Galactic to make first Spaceport America rent payment -- Las Cruces Sun-News

  • Richard Noble to speak at 'InspireForTech'

    Updated: 2013-01-11 17:00:51
    Entrepreneur, former world land speed record holder, and head of the Bloodhound SSC jet/rocket car project, Richard Noble will be speaking at the InspireForTech group meeting in London on 22 January: InspireForTech -- event registration

  • floridatoday.com Space Web Cams

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    ADVERTISEMENT The Flame Trench's Space Web Cams These are freeze-frame images from live web cameras at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California . The images update about once every 45-60 seconds . Labels indicate what is usually showing on that camera feed . At times , particular feeds may change without notice or disappear because of technical difficulty with the government agencies' cameras or equipment . Click on any picture below for a larger version and links to streaming video from that camera , if available . KSC Weather NASA Television Launch Complex 39 Launch Complex 39 ELV processing Space station processing Space station processing ELV processing Space station processing ELV processing Payload processing ELV

  • The Archives Department’s First Anniversary at the Udvar-Hazy Center

    Updated: 2013-01-10 19:44:32
    On January 10, 2012, the National Air and Space Museum Archives Department officially opened its new reading room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center to public researchers.  We welcomed six researchers that day, including two who had scheduled a trip … Continue reading →

  • Rocks on the Move

    Updated: 2013-01-09 20:35:48
    Is this the best asteroid visualization yet?

  • Tucker’s Teardown

    Updated: 2013-01-07 16:35:24
    The final act of the airshow season, in time-lapse.

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