• Bolden World Tour Update

    Updated: 2010-09-30 20:52:56
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  • Lori Garver Hosts Media Teleconference Today

    Updated: 2010-09-30 14:42:01
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  • Help Keep Daily Hubble Status Reports Online

    Updated: 2010-09-30 14:38:40
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  • Shocking News: Rep. Giffords Uncovers Rocket Designing by Congress

    Updated: 2010-09-30 13:38:56
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  • Press Release: Planetary Society Comments on NASA Budget Increase

    Updated: 2010-09-30 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Comments on NASA Budget Increase

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-09-30 07:06:00

  • Earth As A Double Planet - As Seen From Orbit

    Updated: 2010-09-30 06:02:37
    A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere are photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member as the International Space Station passes over central Asia. high res (1.2 M) low res (40 K)

  • Earth As A Double Planet - As Seen From Orbit

    Updated: 2010-09-30 05:05:08
    A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere are photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member as the International Space Station passes over central Asia. high res (1.2 M) low res (40 K)

  • NASA Responds to House Vote

    Updated: 2010-09-30 04:10:52
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  • House Passes S. 3729

    Updated: 2010-09-30 03:37:07
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  • Possibly Habitable Planet Found

    Updated: 2010-09-29 22:48:58
    NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet "A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone."

  • IBEX News To Be Announced (Rescheduled)

    Updated: 2010-09-29 20:29:35
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  • Another Commercial Space Station Emerges

    Updated: 2010-09-29 17:52:46
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  • SGAC at IAC

    Updated: 2010-09-29 16:57:46
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  • An Inside Look at Dragon

    Updated: 2010-09-29 13:16:52
    SpaceX targets Nov. 8 launch for Falcon 9 and Dragon, Ken Kremer (with photos) "SpaceX Corporation is retargeting the liftoff of the firm's next Falcon 9 rocket to early November. The launch includes the debut test flight of the first operational Dragon spacecraft built by SpaceX. Blast off would now take place about a week after the final scheduled flight of Space Shuttle Discovery - currently slated for Nov.1 - instead of a few days ahead that launch."

  • Weighing In On The Congressional Compromise

    Updated: 2010-09-29 13:02:21
    Congress's budget battle leaves NASA without a clear mission, editorial, Washington Post "This flawed bill only proves that the biggest challenges now facing NASA are on the ground. Members of Congress, hoping to protect jobs in their districts, have fought against the shutdown of the Constellation manned spaceflight program, which a blue-ribbon commission on the future of human spaceflight found to be doomed by excessive ambition and insufficient funds."

  • Mike Griffin Is Against Congressional Compromise

    Updated: 2010-09-29 13:00:21
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  • EcoAlert: Wave Power Delivers Electricity to US Grid For First Time

    Updated: 2010-09-29 07:10:00
    While wave power often seems like the poor cousin of the renewable energy world, and frankly doesn't have the practical potential of wind or solar power, tapping the power of the sea does have its place and this next one...

  • The Daily "140" Insight: Google on the Mobile Era

    Updated: 2010-09-29 07:06:00
    “The smartphone is the defining and iconic device of our time,” ERic Schmidt, CEO of Google. Mobile devices are with most of us everyday now. And that will continue going forward, says Eric Schmidt, CEO and Chairman of Google. And...

  • More Closed Openness at NASA: Stealth ESMD Participatory Exploration Conference

    Updated: 2010-09-29 00:56:17
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  • Wayne Hale’s New Blog

    Updated: 2010-09-24 17:56:44
    Just saw the news that Wayne Hale (of Space Shuttle operations fame) has a new blog up on wordpress.  Wayne’s blog posts while still at NASA were always informative, and I hope now that he’s out in the private sector, he’ll be able to continue that trend.  As I understand it, Wayne left NASA earlier [...]

  • “Space Adventure” (playset)

    Updated: 2010-09-24 00:36:14
    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

  • “Rocket Girls”

    Updated: 2010-09-20 04:48:04
    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

  • Imagine

    Updated: 2010-09-15 02:56:17
    [Before I try and end the speculation about what it is we're trying to accomplish at Altius, I wanted to give some thoughts about where I think things could go over the next 25-30 years. I think everyone who reads this probably has their own unique vision, but this is to give you an [...]

  • Transitions

    Updated: 2010-09-11 08:15:34
    While some of you may have known for a while, I think that Clark may have surprised a lot of readers when he pointed out the news that I was no longer a part of the Masten team. I am proud to have been one of the founding members of their team, and I still [...]

  • Sci, Space, Tech Fans: Win a $150 Amazon Electronics Gift Card!

    Updated: 2010-09-08 22:02:35
    Use it for a Free Kindle, Android X Smartphone, Apple iPod or Hundreds of Other Top Brand Electronics Products or Accessories. Volunteers are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on Reddit, Digg or StumbleUpon. Win...

  • Continuing Light Blogging to Continue Continuing

    Updated: 2010-08-28 17:07:54
    Hey guys, I know this is pretty lame, but it’s going to be a bit longer before I have anything useful to put up. I do have a pretty cool technology idea I’ve gotten permission to write about, but we’re doing an SBIR proposal on it first. There’s a lot more afoot in [...]

  • Hilarious

    Updated: 2010-08-25 20:30:33
    I know I shouldn’t feed the troll, but Mark Whittington is sometimes amusing.  On his blog, he quoted a commenter to NASAWatch: A commenter named Robert B. has a great answer: Congress doesn’t trust NASA’s administrators to follow the will of Congress. The admins have proven that they will use the letter of the law [...]

  • 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.”

  • 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 [...]

  • 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

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