• Robonaut To Tweet From The Space Station

    Updated: 2010-07-31 17:01:45
    NASA's Robonaut 2 has no voice but is ready to tell you its story -- in 140 characters or less. The prototype robot will travel to space this fall to give NASA a deeper understanding of human-robotic interaction. read more

  • NASA Ames Makes Payloads Out of Phones and Toys

    Updated: 2010-07-30 22:34:02
    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 Ames Makes Payloads Out of Phones and Toys By Keith Cowing on July 30, 2010 6:34 PM 1 Comment Cheaper , Better Satellites Made From Cellphones and Toys Wired Instead of investing in their own computer research and development , engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cellphones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology . The smartphone in your pocket has about 120 times more computing power than the average

  • Gordon's Attempt To Shove HR 5781 Through Flops

    Updated: 2010-07-30 21:31:48
    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 Gordon's Attempt To Shove HR 5781 Through Flops By Keith Cowing on July 30, 2010 5:31 PM 10 Comments Vote on NASA Bill Appears Unlikely Before September Space News With little time remaining in the fiscal year that ends Sept . 30, House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Rep . Bart Gordon D-Tenn . sought to bring the measure to the House floor under suspension of the rules a move that prevents amendments to a bill and requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass .

  • Bolden Is Operating In Cloaked Mode These Days

    Updated: 2010-07-30 19:17:49
    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 Bolden Is Operating In Cloaked Mode These Days By Keith Cowing on July 30, 2010 3:17 PM 5 Comments Keith's note : In case you haven't noticed Charlie Bolden has been invisible for several weeks after the Muslim outrech media storm . No one in the media has interviewed him . He hasn't been quoted . He's just been , well , invisible . He surfaced yesterday at a stealth visit to GSFC . NASA only admitted this via Twitter a few minutes ago . No doubt he will disappear again .

  • Silver Lining

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:05:57
    guest blogger john hare One good thing about the current congress/senate/president funding mess is that we won’t have to listen to as many cranks start their rocket development plan with, “First we convince the president.”

  • NASA Unions Split On HR 5781

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:50:37
    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 Unions Split On HR 5781 By Keith Cowing on July 30, 2010 12:50 PM No Comments IFPTE AFGE Letter on NASA Authorization Act The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers IFPTE and the American Federation of Government Employees AFGE are writing to inform you that this bill is far from non-controversial . In this regard , IFPTE and AFGE urge you to oppose HR 5781 if it comes before you in its current form . Vote on NASA Bill Appears Unlikely

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-07-30 07:06:00

  • Cabana: "I see a great future for KSC"

    Updated: 2010-07-29 23:27:24
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  • Showdown Ahead For H.R. 5781?

    Updated: 2010-07-29 23:26:34
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  • Exploring Mars Maps

    Updated: 2010-07-29 19:32:53
    A New Mars Map from the Mars Odyssey Well, this is cool.  You can browse the most-accurate map of Mars, created by images from the mars Odyssey spacecraft, at your leisure at the click of a mouse. The map consists of nearly 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System ( THEMIS). This is a  a multi-band [...]

  • GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape

    Updated: 2010-07-29 17:12:28
    Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), scheduled for launch in 2011. Confirming the size and fit of manufactured components is one of the steps required prior to welding the spacecraft's fuel tanks into the propulsion system's feed lines. read more

  • Huge Spacequakes Impact Earth's Magnetic Field

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:14:00
    A new study has found that spacequakes, like an earthquake in space, are temblors in Earth's magnetic field caused by plasma flying off the sun that could help generate the colorful auroras that dance high in Earth's atmosphere. While felt...

  • EcoAlert: Massive Algae Bloom in Baltic Sea

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:14:00
    This satellite image from the European Space Agency captures a 377,000-square-kilometer (145,000-square-mile) algal bloom in the Baltic Sea that could pose a risk to marine life in the Baltic Sea. The blue-green bloom, which stretches from Finland in the north...

  • The Daily "140" Insight: The Universe

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:06:00
    "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." Kurt Vonnegut

  • WOOT! SU, DIGG, & REDDIT Fans: Win a Free Kindle

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:04:00
    Your help needed to share Daily Galaxy posts you love on Digg, Reddit, and SU. Win a Free Kindle for driving most traffic to the site in August. Send us copies your Digg and/or Reddit or SU stats and shipping...

  • Video: Using Cellphones as Payloads

    Updated: 2010-07-29 04:55:43
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  • Video: Think Big Picture - For Just a Moment

    Updated: 2010-07-29 04:24:02
    : 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 Video : Think Big Picture For Just a Moment By Keith Cowing on July 29, 2010 12:24 AM 9 Comments Keith's note : I feel compelled to feature this masterful video by Karen Lau and David Sanders at least once a year . This was done when Craig Steidle ran ESMD . For a brief moment , they got it So folks , drop the petty internal and external politics , and think big picture just for a moment . I don't see this sort of thinking at NASA any more . NASA will go nowhere unless

  • Video: SpaceUp DC

    Updated: 2010-07-29 03:10:22
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  • NexusOne Smartphone/Arduino SmallSat Launch Video

    Updated: 2010-07-29 02:51:50
    Saturday , July 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts NexusOne Smartphone Arduino SmallSat Launch Video Submitted by keithcowing on Wed , 07 28 2010 18:51. Gadgets Blog Space Exploration Video from a Google NexusOne smartphone with specially programmed Android apps , installed aboard James Dougherty's Intimidator-5 on a CTI N4100 load . Launch from Black Rock Playa on 24-July-2010 thanks to Maverick Civilian Space . Foundation 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

  • Desert RATS 2010 Preparations Underway

    Updated: 2010-07-28 16:06:22
    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 Desert RATS 2010 Preparations Underway By Keith Cowing on July 28, 2010 12:06 PM No Comments NASA Opens Online Voting For Next Desert RATS Exploration Site NASA is inviting the public to choose an area in northern Arizona where explorers will conduct part of the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies , known as Desert RATS . Desert RATS is an annual test where NASA takes equipment and crews into the field to simulate future planetary exploration missions , said Joe

  • USA Lays Off Almost 1,400 People

    Updated: 2010-07-28 15:53:14
    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 USA Lays Off Almost 1,400 People By Keith Cowing on July 28, 2010 11:53 AM 3 Comments For Space Shuttle Workers , The End Is Here Discovery News The company previously shed 743 positions under its shuttle processing contract during layoffs in October 2009 and this past June . The latest wave cuts about 15 percent of the firm's 8,100-member shuttle workforce , with more layoffs coming next year . More Than 1,300 Space Shuttle Workers Get Layoff Notices Space.com More than

  • BP Well Plug Could Create a Devastating Underground Blowout

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:10:00
    BP plans to plug the well permanently next week with the "static kill" procedure--sending heavy mud down into the capped well--followed by a "permanent kill," which will hopefully seal the Macondo well permanently with mud, cement, and other substances deposited...

  • The Daily "140" Insight: Dark Matter

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:06:00
    “We are told that only 4 per cent of the Universe is made of atomic matter that we can observe, and that the remaining 96 per cent is missing. Perhaps someone or something else is sitting out there trying to...

  • Privately Funded Observatories an Analog for Space Exploration?

    Updated: 2010-07-24 18:55:52
    I saw on twitter that Alex MacDonald’s paper on comparing the private funding of astronomical observatories and space exploration is finally up.  It’s a fascinating read.  I met Alex at New Space conference last year, and he showed me some of his research.  His hypothesis is that astronomical observatories were the “space exploration” of the [...]

  • “Lunar Settlements”

    Updated: 2010-07-09 05:21:05
    Home Forums About Contact Web www.outofthecradle.net Lunar Library : Sections Main Apollo Big Rocks From Space BRfS Fact BRfS Fiction Cultura Lunaris Fun Games High Frontier HF Biologics HF EML-1 HF Facilities Infrastructure HF Fiction HF Navigation HF Resources HF Settlements Habitats La Luna La Lune Moon Fiction Moonbases Selenography Selenology Selenospheres Space Biz Space Law Youth Youth Apollo Youth Educator Materials Youth High Frontier Fact Youth High Frontier Fiction Youth Moon Fact Youth Moon Fiction Yueh OotC : Sections Main Book Reviews Civil Space Programs International Space Station Space Science Space Shuttle Vision for Space Exploration Commercial Space Lunar Orbital Suborbital EVA Interviews EVA FAQs JAT D EVA Reviews Humor Interviews Ken’s Lunar Library Apollo Big Rocks

  • WOOT! Galaxy Fans: Join the IDG Tech Panel for Free Gadgets & Rewards

    Updated: 2010-07-07 23:25:30
    Major companies around the world value the opinion of thought leaders like you! Join the IDGTechPanel to be invited to a variety of interesting and rewarding survey opportunities. In exchange for your valuable time and insight, you will have exclusive...

  • Light Blogging Likely to Continue

    Updated: 2010-07-06 16:23:22
    I really apologize for the light blogging lately. I’ve been under a lot of stress, and unfortunately I’m expecting the light blogging to continue for at least the rest of the month, and probably longer. I’m heading up to Oregon today for a family reunion on Tiff’s side of the family. Her [...]

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

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  • RS-68 Ares

    Updated: 2010-06-26 12:48:42
    guest blogger john hare What if games can be quite entertaining even if not practical. This particular one is what if Griffen had dictated an RS-68 for the Ares? It is existing and has considerably more thrust than the J2S, which would seem to imply a more capable second stage with considerably more payload to orbit. Second [...]

  • In The News: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail

    Updated: 2010-06-09 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail

  • 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

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