• Is Newt Better Off-Earth Than On It?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:25:59
    Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space, opinion, Huffington Post "Take just about any issue on Earth and I disagree vehemently with Newt Gingrich's policy position. His disingenuous expressions of anti-elitimism infuriate me daily, and his runaway hypocrisy embodies everything that's wrong with the political process. But the man said he was going to build a moon base, and for that, he's just about got my vote."

  • Astronomy Cast, Ep. 250: Precision

    Updated: 2012-01-31 03:59:44
    Wow… 250 episodes. © Fraser for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

  • Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station

    Updated: 2012-01-31 03:52:31
    An amazing panorama revealing Western Europe’s ‘Cities at Night’ with hardware from the stations robotic ‘hand’ and solar arrays in the foreground was captured by the crew in a beautiful new image showing millions of Earth inhabitant’s from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). The sweeping panoramic vista shows several Western European countries starting with [...]

  • Carnival of Space #234

    Updated: 2012-01-30 23:18:18
    This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by our very own Ray Sanders at his very own website, Dear Astronomer Click here to read the Carnival of Space #234. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really [...]

  • Astrovideo: Tumbling Spektr-R Rocket

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:55:21
    Spektr-R Zenit 2 rocket tumbling from Ralf Vandebergh on Vimeo. Ralf Vandebergh captured this unique show made by a Zenit rocket second stage. The rocket was recorded while it was tumbling as it passed through the field of Ralf’s 10 inch Newtonian telescope. This rocket launched the Russian Spektr-R radiotelescope. “I think this is amazing [...]

  • XCOR and NSRC-2012 Suborbital Contest Last Call

    Updated: 2012-01-30 20:52:53
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy XCOR and NSRC-2012 Suborbital Contest Last Call By Marc Boucher on January 30, 2012 3:52 PM View Comments Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight at Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace and the Southwest Research Institute SwRI announce the final week to register and become eligible to win a suborbital research flight on XCOR's

  • NASA Adds Facebook Gaming to its Repertoire

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:26:16
    NASA Releases First Multi-Player Facebook Game, NASA "NASA has launched its first multi-player online game to test players' knowledge of the space program. Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket? These are only a few of the questions players can answer in Space Race Blastoff."

  • Rob Strain Leaving NASA

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:59:33
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Rob Strain Leaving NASA By Keith Cowing on January 30, 2012 9:59 AM View Comments NASA GSFC Center Director Rob Strain Announces Plans to Leave It is with mixed emotions that I announce my intention to leave NASA Goddard and return to industry . My last day as Director will be March 4. During my time here , it has been my privilege to play a small role in our awesome missions , remarkable

  • Big Rocket, Little Support

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:26:55
    , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Big Rocket , Little Support By Keith Cowing on January 29, 2012 9:26 PM View Comments Expensive NASA rocket draws skepticism Houston Chronicle As engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama begin designing a rocket that would eventually be capable of blasting 130 metric tons into orbit , many spaceflight experts are questioning why NASA chose what could be the most expensive and

  • The Temporary Importance of Space in the Election

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:21:35
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy The Temporary Importance of Space in the Election By Keith Cowing on January 29, 2012 9:21 PM View Comments Matt Reed : Newt's awesome space plan shields a bad candidate Florida Today How Gingrich led the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998 for lying about an affair even as Gingrich had cheated on his wife for six years . I despised Gingrich by the time he took the stage in Cocoa

  • Mike Griffin, Romney Space Advisor

    Updated: 2012-01-28 04:44:44
    , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Mike Griffin , Romney Space Advisor By Keith Cowing on January 27, 2012 11:44 PM View Comments Mitt Romney would have fired Mike Griffin : Is Romney Already Being Trapped By Unsustainable Space Interests Space Frontier Foundation During last night's Republican presidential debate , Governor Mitt Romney stated that a moonbase would be an enormous expense , and later stated that if someone

  • EcoAlert: Bus-Sized Object Buzzed Earth Today

    Updated: 2012-01-27 18:07:32
    A small asteroid the size of a city bus zoomed between Earth and the moon's orbit today, Friday Jan. 25, days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our planet, NASA says.The asteroid, 2012 BX34 passed within...

  • Vega: all bolted together, waiting for the go sign

    Updated: 2012-01-27 15:49:54
    : , FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries X-37 Spying on Tiangong Maybe , but not yet Vega launch could slip into February Pics of Energomash test stand NASA's CCDev returns to SAAs Armadillo's Stig-A gets closer to space Europe to boldly go , despite budget trials Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Recent Comments Ivan Soose commented on To infinity or the bank Many thank Thomas Anderson commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines I personal Young commented on To infinity or the bank i've been Gordon Werner commented on

  • Weekly Space Roundup for January 26, 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-27 14:05:59
    Yesterday was the weekly live video Space Roundup, run by Fraser Cain from Universe Today. This week we had Pamela Gay, Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci, and Ian O’Neill. We talked about the solar storm, black holes, arsenic life, Newt Gingrich, Phobos-Grunt, and answered some questions from the listeners. Here’s the video: We do these every [...]

  • Romney Dumps on Gingrich Space Vision

    Updated: 2012-01-27 07:11:44
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Romney Dumps on Gingrich Space Vision By Keith Cowing on January 27, 2012 2:11 AM View Comments Romney Mocks Gingrich's Plans For Moon Base CBS Gingrich promised that By the end of my second term , we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American . Gingrich , the former House speaker , told an overflowing crowd gathered on Florida's space coast Wednesday that he

  • Looking Back While Looking Forward

    Updated: 2012-01-26 18:45:28
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Looking Back While Looking Forward By Keith Cowing on January 26, 2012 1:45 PM View Comments Devon Island Journal 20 July 2003 : Arctic Memorials and Starship Yearnings Given the sheer mass of the structure , and the slow manner with which things change here , this inukshuk may well be standing 500 years from now . That should be long enough . Maybe someone serving on a starship will think

  • Image of the Day: "Bright Blue Dot" --A Spectacular Life-Bearing Planet from Space

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:20:31
    A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The...

  • Suomi's Stunning View From Space

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:19:09
    Image: Suomi NPP's View of North America "Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument returned this hi-resolution full-disc image of the Earth from several passes made Jan. 4, 2012. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) mission represents a critical first step in building the next-generation Earth-observing satellite system that will collect data on both long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions."

  • NASA's Day of Remembrance

    Updated: 2012-01-26 15:59:50
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA's Day of Remembrance By Keith Cowing on January 26, 2012 10:59 AM View Comments Photo : NASA Day of Remembrance Wreath Laying Ceremony NASA Administrator Charles Bolden , NASA personnel , and others , participate in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance , Thursday , Jan . 26, 2012, at Arlington National Cemetery . Wreathes were laid in memory of those men and

  • Santorum and Romney on Space in Florida

    Updated: 2012-01-26 13:21:13
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Santorum and Romney on Space in Florida By Keith Cowing on January 26, 2012 8:21 AM View Comments Santorum : Moon base idea is crass politics' Politico the idea that anybody's going out and talking about grand , new , very expensive schemes to spend more money at a time when we do not have our fiscal house in order , in my opinion , is plain , crass politics . Romney schedules Cape

  • Gingrich Talks About Space Policy in Florida (Update)

    Updated: 2012-01-26 00:38:40
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Gingrich Talks About Space Policy in Florida Update By Keith Cowing on January 25, 2012 7:38 PM View Comments Keith's : update At the first event in Florida today , Newt Gingrich called for setting aside 10 of the NASA budget for prizes which would be awarded tax free that there'd be a human base on the Moon by the end of his Administration flying an American flag , that progress on a trip

  • Comcast Explains (and Complains About) NASA.gov Blackout

    Updated: 2012-01-25 22:58:06
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Comcast Explains and Complains About NASA.gov Blackout By Keith Cowing on January 25, 2012 5:58 PM View Comments Analysis of DNSSEC Validation Failure Comcast DNS Engineering Comcast How Did Users Interpret the Failure The DNSSEC-­‐related misconfiguration of the NASA.GOV domain unfortunately occurred on the same day that some Internet websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit blacked out their

  • Earth in High-Def

    Updated: 2012-01-25 18:14:46
    The Blue Marble, 2012 There it is folks, our home in space.  The Blue Marble. Mother Earth. Whatever you want to call it, it’s home to all the life we actually KNOW about in the cosmos. This image was taken using an instrument called VIIRS (short for Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer, sensitive to both visible and infrared wavelengths [...]

  • X-37 Spying on Tiangong? Maybe, but not yet

    Updated: 2012-01-25 14:14:15
    , FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Vega launch could slip into February Pics of Energomash test stand NASA's CCDev returns to SAAs Armadillo's Stig-A gets closer to space Europe to boldly go , despite budget trials Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Back from Mars , safe and sound Recent Comments Ivan Soose commented on To infinity or the bank Many thank Thomas Anderson commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines I personal Young commented on To infinity or the bank i've been Gordon Werner commented on Sci-fi movie

  • Is Gingrich's Pro-Obama Space Policy Stance About to Flip Flop?

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:07:20
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Is Gingrich's Pro-Obama Space Policy Stance About to Flip Flop By Keith Cowing on January 25, 2012 12:07 AM View Comments Gingrich plans major speeches , including one on space CNN Riding the momentum of his South Carolina win on Saturday , Newt Gingrich said Sunday he planned a week of big speeches offering big solutions for a big country . I'll be at the space coast in Florida this week

  • Massive Solar Storm Heads for Earth

    Updated: 2012-01-24 18:39:27
    Solar flare seen by ESA/NASA SOHO satellite 23 January, shortly after a large M8.3-class solar flare occurred at 03:59 GMT. The flare caused a Coronal Mass Ejection that reached Earth in the afternoon of 24 January 2012. Credits: ESA/NASA read more

  • EcoAlert: Massive Solar Radiation Hitting Earth Now

    Updated: 2012-01-24 16:22:00
    A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) --a massive burst of solar wind, other light isotope plasma, and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space--is expected to hit Earth at about 0900 EST (1400 GMT) today, according...

  • Conundrum

    Updated: 2012-01-23 19:52:01
    Whenever I’m stuck in proposal writing hell, I tend to come up with all sorts of fun ideas for blog posts. But my inner adult likes reminding me “if you have the mental bandwidth to be doing creative writing, you should be getting those proposals written so you can get Altius more money, not having [...]

  • Michio Kaku on The Search for Earth's Twin (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2012-01-23 16:00:00

  • No Blogging Today

    Updated: 2012-01-18 17:59:07
    In protest of SOPA/PIPA, I’m not going to do any other blog posts today.  That is all.

  • Vega launch could slip into February

    Updated: 2012-01-06 00:42:00
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Pics of Energomash test stand NASA's CCDev returns to SAAs Armadillo's Stig-A gets closer to space Europe to boldly go , despite budget trials Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Back from Mars , safe and sound China and Fear Recent Comments brooklyn web design commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines is it poss Thomas Anderson commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines I personal Young commented on To infinity or the bank i've been Gordon Werner commented on

  • Pics of Energomash test stand

    Updated: 2012-01-03 17:16:41
    The general public, especially reporters, are not generally allowed anywhere near sensitive Russian facilities. Fortunately, a blogger snuck into an Energomash facility and took extensive pictures of where rocket engines are tested.

  • NASA's CCDev returns to SAAs

    Updated: 2011-12-15 19:13:29
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Armadillo's Stig-A gets closer to space Europe to boldly go , despite budget trials Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Back from Mars , safe and sound China and Fear Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on US Satellites VEGA launch date set 26 Jan 2012 Recent Comments Thomas Anderson commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines I personal Young commented on To infinity or the bank i've been Gordon Werner commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines Continenta

  • Armadillo's Stig-A gets closer to space

    Updated: 2011-12-09 14:45:51
    After firing from Spaceport America in New Mexico, Armadillo's Stig-A successfully flew to 137,000 ft. Stig-A is now nearly halfway to the Karman Line, the arbitrary line that marks the official transition from atmosphere to space. Of course, there is a videoArmadillo, a tiny but driven company, has for years been building small rockets with the goal of suborbital flight. If they haven't quite made it, they're certainly well on their way.

  • I Have a Blog? Woah…

    Updated: 2011-11-16 16:04:03
    I got a subtle reminder today from Will Pomerantz and Ben Brockert, that I in fact have this blog thing, and that I probably shouldn’t be using twitter for blog posts… [Of course the real reason I do stuff like that on Twitter is because my adult supervision at Altius doesn't do Twitter, which allows [...]

  • Vega on track for January launch

    Updated: 2011-11-11 14:54:59
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Europe to boldly go , despite budget trials Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Back from Mars , safe and sound China and Fear Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on US Satellites VEGA launch date set 26 Jan 2012 TAM Panel : Our Future in Space Recent Comments Gordon Werner commented on Sci-fi movie curse' may have doomed American Airlines Continenta Kingfisher Airlines in Dubai commented on Soyuz Guiana update What an aw Nicky Spriggins commented on And you thought NASA was a pioneer I read you

  • Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it

    Updated: 2011-11-09 20:51:41
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Back from Mars , safe and sound China and Fear Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on US Satellites VEGA launch date set 26 Jan 2012 TAM Panel : Our Future in Space Galileo satellite separation live video Soyuz Guiana update Recent Comments Kingfisher Airlines in Dubai commented on Soyuz Guiana update What an aw Nicky Spriggins commented on And you thought NASA was a pioneer I read you Sherrill Kuepfer commented on Taking space very seriously I enjoy ch Shiela Pillers commented on Taking space very seriously I enjoy co

  • VEGA launch date set - 26 Jan 2012

    Updated: 2011-10-26 10:47:48
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries To infinity or the bank Vega on track for January launch Phobos-Grunt doesn't quite make it Back from Mars , safe and sound China and Fear Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on US Satellites VEGA launch date set 26 Jan 2012 TAM Panel : Our Future in Space Galileo satellite separation live video Soyuz Guiana update Recent Comments Kingfisher Airlines in Dubai commented on Soyuz Guiana update What an aw Nicky Spriggins commented on And you thought NASA was a pioneer I read you Sherrill Kuepfer commented on Taking space very seriously I enjoy ch Shiela Pillers commented on Taking space very seriously I enjoy co

  • Starting to Come Back Up For Air

    Updated: 2011-10-18 05:19:59
    Sorry about the lightblogging.  I’ve had a long year the past two or three months…  I’ll give more details on Altius-specific stuff on the ASM blog (including some eye-candy) when I get done with a Space Angels Network pitch in Palo Alto this week, and the SEDS SpaceVision 2011 conference next week, but here’s a [...]

  • Random Observation on SEC Accredited Investor Rules and the Top 1%

    Updated: 2011-10-18 04:48:20
    I was reading an interesting article the other day that had to do with the OWS movement giving some data on the background of the “top 1%” and the “top 0.5%”.  Can’t say I agree with everything in this article, but it was still worth a read.  What really stood out to me though was [...]

  • Deep Space Mysteries 2012 Calendar

    Updated: 2011-10-05 06:42:07
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