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Another Pointless EPO Junket

Updated: 2012-02-29 18:16:42

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NASA Dawn Image: Complex Surface Texture in Vesta's Southern Hemisphere

Updated: 2012-02-29 16:39:07

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows the texture of the surface in a part of Vesta's southern hemisphere. This region is just north of the main Rheasilvia structure. This image is dominated by the hummocky (i.e., wavy or undulating) terrain of Vesta's southern hemisphere, which is seen here as sets of large, arcuate (i.e., curved) ridges and depressions. read more

NASA MRO Image of Mars: Dunes in Late Fall: Frost in the Ripples

Updated: 2012-02-29 16:36:52

These dunes in Aonia Terra are being monitored for changes such as gullies, which form over the winter from the action of carbon dioxide frost. The season in which this image was acquired was late fall in the Southern hemisphere. Frost is just starting to accumulate here, and is concentrated on pole-facing slopes and in the troughs between the meter-scale ripples. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Larger image

NASA LRO Image of the Moon: Basalt Layering Inside Crater Dawes

Updated: 2012-02-29 16:33:46

The wall of Dawes crater (17.21°N, 26.32°E) contains sections of spectacular mare basalt layering. However, mass wasting, a geologic process where material moves downhill due to gravity, has started to partially cover these beautiful outcrops. Granular flows started above the outcrop and then flowed down the interior crater wall. read more

Let's Double NASA's Budget

Updated: 2012-02-29 05:24:46

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Video: Morpheus Hot Fire #5

Updated: 2012-02-29 03:24:27

The Morpheus team successfully fired their new engine on Monday. This video shows the engine burn for an extended period of time and includes a cross pattern to test the some of the new upgrades.

Confusion About Future NASA Landers on Mars

Updated: 2012-02-28 19:00:55

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CASIS Webinar Today: Learn What They Are - and Are Not Doing

Updated: 2012-02-28 17:41:47

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Image: Nighttime Earth and Aurora Borealis As Seen From the Space Station

Updated: 2012-02-28 17:25:16

NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Rembrandt Basin

Updated: 2012-02-28 17:16:25

Of Interest: In this view of Mercury's limb, the Rembrandt basin is at top right with Kipling crater to its left. Because MESSEGNER's orbit is highly elliptical, the spacecraft is afforded a beautiful view of Mercury's southern hemisphere on every orbit. read more

Kepler Has Identified 2,300 Extrasolar Planet Candidates

Updated: 2012-02-28 03:15:46

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Stealth ISS Heads of Agency Meeting

Updated: 2012-02-27 17:01:49

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Angry Martians Meet To Plot Their Revenge

Updated: 2012-02-27 15:43:18

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Save Webb, Cut Mars - Then Save Mars, Cut Outer Planets

Updated: 2012-02-26 18:07:59

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NASA Made a Commercial Crew Video That It Is Afraid to Endorse

Updated: 2012-02-26 00:56:52

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CASIS Still Doesn't Do Anything - Not That Anyone Notices (Update)

Updated: 2012-02-25 22:01:13

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Bolden/Elachi Plan: Take Work Away From Others And Send It To JPL

Updated: 2012-02-24 20:00:25

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Dot Con 2012!

Updated: 2012-02-24 18:25:44

Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Satellite tumblr A boy and his dog Dot Con 2012 Dot Con 2012 starts today Yay Oh drat I hear you thinking . Another con I can’t go to Well , I have some good news : you can go to this one , because it’s online So unless someone printed out this blog post and handed it to you on a piece of paper , Dot Con 2012 is something you can do . And I’m a part of it Dot Con is a celebration of nerdy things , and we’ve got a fun lineup of nerdy stuff planned for the : weekend My pal Josh Cagan will be talking with a bunch of Hollywood types who will regale us with stories of being a geek

Future Lunar Bases - Space Quarterly Magazine Preview

Updated: 2012-02-24 15:16:14

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Colonel Futurist - Space Quarterly Magazine Preview

Updated: 2012-02-24 14:34:27

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AAS Reacts (10 Days Later) to FY 2013 Budget

Updated: 2012-02-24 03:12:09

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A Peek Inside Mike Griffin's Alternate Universe

Updated: 2012-02-24 01:33:54

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Playboy in Space and other sundries

Updated: 2012-02-22 21:23:21

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Moon bites multicolor Sun… from space!

Updated: 2012-02-21 17:30:50

Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Breaking news : Heartland leaker is scientist Peter Gleick , says documents are all real Super-Earth exoplanet likely to be a waterworld Moon bites multicolor Sun from space Earlier today , the Solar Dynamics Observatory had a front seat to a pretty nifty event : a partial eclipse of the Sun . For about 100 minutes , from its orbital viewpoint SDO saw the Moon pass in front of the Sun , partially blocking it . SDO semi-fictional mascot Camilla Corona created a really cool video of the event using footage from different wavelengths edited : together The false color images show

Vega off the pad!

Updated: 2012-02-13 10:45:40

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 pushed back to 13 Feb getting close to ATV deadline Galileo is go contracts signed Counterfeits in Space Vega : all bolted together , waiting for the go sign 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 Recent Comments worldclock commented on And you thought NASA was a pioneer And you th worldclock commented on Video : how does Galileo work Video : how Ivan Soose commented on To infinity or the bank Many thank Thomas Anderson commented on

New Link: EconLog

Updated: 2012-02-10 03:34:28

I just realized I didn’t have a link in my blogroll to the excellent EconLog blog, run by economists Arnold Kling, Bryan Caplan, and David Henderson. Like most engineers, I don’t let the lack of much economic training get in the way of good economic philosophizing/debating, but I’ve learned a lot from their takes on [...]

Letter to the Editor

Updated: 2012-02-10 03:21:05

[Note: Here's a letter to the editor that I sent in to a local Colorado paper a few days ago, which didn't get published. Not that most of this should be too surprising to regular readers, but I figured it was worth putting something new on the blog. Also, some apologies on the terseness, I [...]

Vega pushed back to 13 Feb - getting close to ATV deadline

Updated: 2012-02-03 09:23:25

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 pushed back to 13 Feb getting close to ATV deadline Galileo is go contracts signed Counterfeits in Space Vega : all bolted together , waiting for the go sign 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 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

Galileo is go - contracts signed

Updated: 2012-02-02 14:53:09

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Counterfeits in Space?

Updated: 2012-01-31 20:05:38

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 : all bolted together , waiting for the go sign 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 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

Vega: all bolted together, waiting for the go sign

Updated: 2012-01-27 15:49:54

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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

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 [...]

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

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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

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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

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