• The Cape Week in Review by the Cape Insider

    Updated: 2010-05-31 14:43:27
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support The Cape Week in Review by the Cape Insider By Jason Rhian on May 31, 2010 10:43 AM No Comments In The Cape Week in Review , one chapter in history was closed , while a new one opened . While the space shuttle Atlantis returned home from her final planned mission the private commercial space firm , SpaceX rescheduled the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and the U.S . Air Force launched the first GPS IIF satellite . With 3 videos Atlantis arrives home after final mission

  • Keith Cowing at Maker Faire: Hacking NASA

    Updated: 2010-05-30 19:33:12
    : Monday , May 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Keith Cowing at Maker Faire : Hacking NASA Submitted by keithcowing on Sun , 05 30 2010 11:33. Gadgets Blog Space Exploration Keith Cowing talks about the kind of hacks made famous by the Apollo 13 mission , instances where the crew had to improvise using materials at hand . He discusses the following : Skylab Rescue the umbrella used to replace solar insulation and boating tools bought at a local marina Syncom Rescue tools made out of plastic and duct tape Apollo 13 CO2 removal , use of LEM engine , etc . Apollo lunar rover fender repair STS-120 EVA solar panel repair , and ISS camera tracker made from a power tool . Cowing also talks about some of his own projects

  • NASA Satellites Capture Growing Oil Spill

    Updated: 2010-05-30 19:19:29
    Monday , May 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts NASA Satellites Capture Growing Oil Spill Submitted by keithcowing on Sun , 05 30 2010 11:19. Earth NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have captured images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico , which began April 20, 2010, with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig . In time lapse , the video reveals a space-based view of the evolution of the oil spill through May 24. The oil slick appears greyish-beige in the . image 2010 SpaceRef Interactive . Inc Terms of Service User Login Username : Password : Request new password Search On Orbit Sponsors Comm Center Blogs Everest OnOrbit Gadgets Blog Outer Limits Blog Features AMASE Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard

  • Technoarchaeology In Action

    Updated: 2010-05-30 04:55:15
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Technoarchaeology In Action By Keith Cowing on May 30, 2010 12:55 AM 1 Comment From Obsolete Technology , New Science NOVA , PBS Today , an engineer named Dennis Wingo is working to resurrect that data . He co-leads the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project--which , as the name implies , is working to pry all that old data off of the tapes . So far , he's been successful , thanks to a combination of skill and pure luck . Wingo's team located one of the only NASA computer

  • Another View Of Masten's Xombie In-Air Engine Restart

    Updated: 2010-05-30 04:18:42
    Monday , May 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Another View Of Masten's Xombie In-Air Engine Restart Submitted by keithcowing on Sat , 05 29 2010 20:18. Gadgets Blog Space Exploration A view from the ground of Masten Space Systems' first in-air engine relight on May 26, 2010. The test was a complete success and is another step forward in our test program . 2010 SpaceRef Interactive . Inc Terms of Service User Login Username : Password : Request new password Search On Orbit Sponsors Comm Center Blogs Everest OnOrbit Gadgets Blog Outer Limits Blog Features AMASE Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Astrobiology Dale Andersen's Field Reports Education HMP Research Station Mars Down Under OnSputnik Planetary Science

  • Not The Sort of Spinoff You Usually Hear About

    Updated: 2010-05-30 03:56:03
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Not The Sort of Spinoff You Usually Hear About By Keith Cowing on May 29, 2010 11:56 PM 2 Comments Not Quite Rocket Science : 2 Week Underwear Wall Street Journal Underwear you can wear up to two weeks at a time without having to worry about the smell Andy Jordan's Tech Diary looks into the technological feat , how it works , and who is using the underwear . Yes , there's a smell test . Keith's : note The video focuses on underwear that can be worn for prolonged periods

  • Dennis Wingo at Maker Fair: McMoon's - Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project

    Updated: 2010-05-30 03:48:34
    : Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Dennis Wingo at Maker Fair : McMoon's Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project By Keith Cowing on May 29, 2010 11:48 PM 1 Comment We took 40 year old data tapes , tape drives that had been in a garage for 30 years , found elderly engineers , and reverse-engineered ancient technology to provide enhanced imagery from the five Lunar Orbiter missions in a fashion and resolution inconceivable at the time that the missions were conducted . Tags LOIRP video wingo Article Tools

  • Video: Masten's Xombie In-Air Engine Restart

    Updated: 2010-05-30 03:21:13
    "A view from the ground of Masten Space Systems' first in-air engine relight on May 26, 2010. The test was a complete success and is another step forward in our test program."

  • NASA: Is Approaching Space Object Artificial?

    Updated: 2010-05-29 15:32:11
    NASA authorities report that an unknown object approaching the Earth from deep space is almost certainly artificial in origin rather than being an asteroid. Object 2010 KQ was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona earlier this month, and...

  • Keith Cowing at Maker Faire: Hacking NASA

    Updated: 2010-05-29 04:20:52
    : Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Keith Cowing at Maker Faire : Hacking NASA By Keith Cowing on May 29, 2010 12:20 AM 2 Comments Keith Cowing talks about the kind of hacks made famous by the Apollo 13 mission , instances where the crew had to improvise using materials at hand . He discusses the following : Skylab Rescue the umbrella used to replace solar insulation and boating tools bought at a local marina Syncom Rescue tools made out of plastic and duct tape Apollo 13 CO2 removal , use of LEM engine ,

  • First Ever Video of NASA's 'Ice Team'

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:56:39
    NASA has released, for the first time, video of the final inspection of a space shuttle before launch. The Final Inspection Team, also known as the "Ice Team," performs a walkdown of Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A during space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 launch countdown on May 14, 2010. The six-member team walks on every level [...]

  • Google Releases Top 1000 Sites - NASA Makes the Cut

    Updated: 2010-05-28 23:58:13
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  • First-Ever NASA Ice Team HD Footage Release

    Updated: 2010-05-28 21:33:12
    NASA Releases First-Ever High-Def Footage Of Shuttle Ice Team, NASA (With video) "NASA has released the first-ever up close, high-definition video of Kennedy Space Center's Final Inspection Team walkdown in the final hours before a space shuttle launch. The footage was shot on May 14 at Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A during the countdown for shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission."

  • Say Goodbye to Phoenix Mars Lander

    Updated: 2010-05-28 19:52:29
    It Served us Well Two images of the Phoenix Mars lander taken from Martian orbit in 2008 and 2010. The 2008 lander image (left) shows two relatively blue spots on either side corresponding to the spacecraft’s clean circular solar panels. In the 2010 (right) image scientists see a dark shadow that could [...]

  • The Daily "140" Insight

    Updated: 2010-05-28 07:06:00
    "We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth." Vernor Vinge, futurist and author of Rainbows End.

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-05-28 07:05:00

  • LIVE - Delta IV Launch

    Updated: 2010-05-28 02:38:13
    Marc's note: Tonight we're testing out our new live launch mission status center for the Delta IV launch of the Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF SV-1 satellite. Enter Mission Status Center

  • Delta IV Launched

    Updated: 2010-05-28 00:20:12
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Delta IV Launched By Marc Boucher on May 28, 2010 8:20 AM No Comments Delta 4 Blast Off with Advanced new GPS Satellite Marks 50th Anniversary of Delta Program Ken Kremer Special to NASA Watch with video A Delta 4 rocket roared into space on Thursday night May 27 at 11:00 PM EDT carrying the first in powerful new series of Global Positioning System satellites for the US Air Force . The GPS IIF SV-1 satellite launched from Pad 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in

  • Masten Space Re-Lights Rocket Engine in Flight

    Updated: 2010-05-27 22:36:00
    Monday , May 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Masten Space Re-Lights Rocket Engine in Flight Submitted by keithcowing on Thu , 05 27 2010 14:36. Gadgets Blog Space Exploration Masten Space Systems , a leader in vertical take off , vertical landing VTVL rocket vehicles , successfully demonstrated in-air engine re-light capability today at the company's test facility in Mojave , CA . Xombie , Masten's most-flown vehicle , carried out the test Wednesday and became the first VTVL vehicle to successfully re-light a rocket engine in . flight VTVL launch vehicles conserve fuel by shutting down their engines during the coast and re-entry phase of a flight . Being able to re-light the main engine is critical to safely

  • NASA Joins World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

    Updated: 2010-05-27 18:56:34
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support NASA Joins World Wide Web Consortium W3C By Keith Cowing on May 27, 2010 2:56 PM No Comments NASA Joins Web Consortium to Help Improve Universal Access NASA announced Thursday it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium W3C The consortium is an international organization that develops protocols , standards and guidelines to ensure universal Web access . Standards will play a key role in making NASA's content more accessible on the Internet and in the implementation of our

  • Ion-Drive Spaceship Aiming At Mars

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:52:00
    Nuclear-powered plasma drives carrying men to Mars - the fact we can say that as a future instead of fiction makes us so happy! Tests on a new kind of ion drive establish that's already applicable to orbital operations, and...

  • Spacecraft Reveals Solar Effects on Earth Technology

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:48:00
    NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has allowed scientists to comprehensively view the dynamic nature of Solar storms that have long been recognized as a cause of technological problems on Earth since the invention of the telegraph in the 19th...

  • NASA Satellite Video of Gulf Oil Spill (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:41:00
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  • BP Gulf Oil Spill: The Ecological Damage -Up Close

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:14:00
    Image credit: bostom.com/bigpicture

  • The Daily "140" Insight

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:08:00
    "I want to put a ding in the universe." Steve Jobs

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:06:00
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  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (5/27)

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:04:00
    Black Hole Found in Unexpected Place Detailed Hubble images reveal a single supermassive black hole wandering away from its host galaxy’s center where it belongs. The misplaced black hole is probably the result of a merger between two smaller black...

  • News: LightSail: Firming Up the Spacecraft Design

    Updated: 2010-05-27 05:00:00
    LightSail: Firming Up the Spacecraft Design (from Planetary News)

  • Masten Successfully Re-Ignites Rocket Engine During Test Flight

    Updated: 2010-05-27 01:09:42
    “This was by far the coolest rocket flight I’ve ever seen!” said Ian Garcia, Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer for Masten Space Systems. I'll second that! With their motto, "Just gas 'em up and go!" the Masten team today successfully demonstrated in-air engine re-light capability on their Xombie vehicle, and this was the first time [...]

  • BP Gulf Oil Spill: The Ecological Damage -Up Close

    Updated: 2010-05-26 07:10:00
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  • The Daily "140" Insight

    Updated: 2010-05-26 07:08:00
    "" "It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from...

  • News: Atlantis Returns Home After Final Planned Mission

    Updated: 2010-05-26 05:00:00
    Atlantis Returns Home After Final Planned Mission (from Planetary News)

  • Masten and XCOR NASA Lander Strategic Relationship

    Updated: 2010-05-25 18:03:48
    I had to keep this under wraps until this morning, but it’s now formal: May 25th, 2010, Mojave, CA, USA: XCOR Aerospace and Masten Space Systems, two of the leaders in the New Space sector, have announced a strategic business and technology relationship to pursue jointly the anticipated NASA sponsored unmanned lander projects. These automated lander [...]

  • A Good Point to Remember Regarding Space Tourism Demand Numbers

    Updated: 2010-05-25 07:26:05
    Jeff, who happens to be in a really good position to know, clears up a common misconception about the Futron Space Tourism study that I’ve seen made a lot of places (including in the comments section here): This author, being intimately familiar with the forecast, can shed some light on that forecast. A common misconception about [...]

  • Press Release: Planetary Society Joins Forces with Space and Science Organizations to Support NASA 2011 Budget Proposal

    Updated: 2010-05-20 05:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Joins Forces with Space and Science Organizations to Support NASA 2011 Budget Proposal

  • News: Space Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off

    Updated: 2010-05-14 05:00:00
    Space Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off (from Planetary News)

  • Biggest Bailout In History

    Updated: 2010-05-13 22:56:26
    guest blogger john hare I have not said much on the commercial take over of NASA orbital deliveries, so I thought I would lay out the timeline that I see happening. Commercial space will start sending up astronauts to ISS in 2016 after $16B-$20B in development costs. Commercial space will get a bit cocky by 2021 and mistakes [...]

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2010-05-04 10:08:22
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  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

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  • SpaceShipTwo could be single stage to suborbit says ESA firm

    Updated: 2010-04-29 15:24:42
    FlightGlobal.com Home Premium Archive Video Images Forum Blogs Jobs Shop Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries SpaceShipTwo could be single stage to suborbit says ESA firm What hope for ESA or even UKSA tv VIDEO : Russia's MAKS spaceplane Dassault gives K:1000 VSH suborbital vehicle update Where is Orion , in every sense . South Africa looks to satellite based astronomy The NASA debate rolls on . how many more blunt objects do we have to hit NASA . with Virgin Galactic head of safety wanted , dental included STS-134 now last mission key manifest planning points Recent Assets SpaceShipTwo could be single stage to suborbit says ESA firm By Rob Coppinger on April 29, 2010 4:24 PM Permalink Comments 0 TrackBacks 0 credit : Virgin Galactic caption : could

  • VIDEO: Russia's MAKS spaceplane

    Updated: 2010-04-28 14:54:28
    Spacevidcast.com has released this video and this article about Russia's MAKS aerospace system

  • South Africa looks to satellite based astronomy

    Updated: 2010-04-28 10:34:44
    It is not often Africa and spaceflight get mentioned in the same breath but here are a couple of interesting itemsSouth Africa had a satellite symposium the other week and the country is apparently interested in co-operating with Russia and Japan on satellite based astronomy

  • The NASA debate rolls on...

    Updated: 2010-04-28 09:59:37
    . FlightGlobal.com Home Premium Archive Video Images Forum Blogs Jobs Shop Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries South Africa looks to satellite based astronomy The NASA debate rolls on . how many more blunt objects do we have to hit NASA . with Virgin Galactic head of safety wanted , dental included STS-134 now last mission key manifest planning points Constellation : Hyperbola's journey to nowhere Whose human flight safety standards , again Is the full Orion crew exploration vehicle programme back on Mexico begins 80 million space agency center preparations VIDEO : Senator Bill Nelson says Ares I is not dead yet Recent Assets The NASA debate rolls on . By Rob Coppinger on April 28, 2010 10:59 AM Permalink Comments 0 TrackBacks 0 NASA administrator Charles

  • STS-134 now last mission - key manifest planning points

    Updated: 2010-04-26 16:39:02
    FlightGlobal.com Home Premium Archive Video Images Forum Blogs Jobs Shop Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries STS-134 now last mission key manifest planning points Constellation : Hyperbola's journey to nowhere Whose human flight safety standards , again Is the full Orion crew exploration vehicle programme back on Mexico begins 80 million space agency center preparations VIDEO : Senator Bill Nelson says Ares I is not dead yet VIDEO : Some fun at MSFC that isn't Ares or heavy lift related Obama's unexecutable non-Constellation Constellation program Obama space plan debate sees no sign of a victor VIDEO : India to OK human spaceflight program by mid-June Recent Assets STS-134 now last mission key manifest planning points By Rob Coppinger on April 26, 2010 5:39

  • Is the full Orion crew exploration vehicle programme back on?

    Updated: 2010-04-22 16:04:25
    FlightGlobal.com Home Premium Archive Video Images Forum Blogs Jobs Shop Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Is the full Orion crew exploration vehicle programme back on Mexico begins 80 million space agency center preparations VIDEO : Senator Bill Nelson says Ares I is not dead yet VIDEO : Some fun at MSFC that isn't Ares or heavy lift related Obama's unexecutable non-Constellation Constellation program Obama space plan debate sees no sign of a victor VIDEO : India to OK human spaceflight program by mid-June VIDEO : Obama Kennedy Space Center visit media coverage VIDEO : NBC report of First man's opposition to Obama plan One hour 55 minutes to create Obama's own space plan PR disaster Recent Comments Rob Coppinger commented on Is the full Orion crew

  • Mexico begins $80 million space agency center preparations

    Updated: 2010-04-22 13:10:24
    FlightGlobal.com Home Premium Archive Video Images Forum Blogs Jobs Shop Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Is the full Orion crew exploration vehicle programme back on Mexico begins 80 million space agency center preparations VIDEO : Senator Bill Nelson says Ares I is not dead yet VIDEO : Some fun at MSFC that isn't Ares or heavy lift related Obama's unexecutable non-Constellation Constellation program Obama space plan debate sees no sign of a victor VIDEO : India to OK human spaceflight program by mid-June VIDEO : Obama Kennedy Space Center visit media coverage VIDEO : NBC report of First man's opposition to Obama plan One hour 55 minutes to create Obama's own space plan PR disaster Recent Comments gaetano marano ghostNASA.com commented on Mexico begins

  • In The News: Obama NASA plan: Mars shot as next generation's Apollo mission

    Updated: 2010-04-16 05:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Obama NASA plan: Mars shot as next generation's Apollo mission

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    Updated: 2010-04-14 02:15:38
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