• New Singularity Summit 2010 Banner

    Updated: 2010-06-30 22:43:57
    Register today, before prices go up at midnight! We still have discounted hotel rooms available, for $139/night instead of the usual $199.

  • Robotic Russian Space Freighter Zooms Toward Space Station

    Updated: 2010-06-30 21:54:00
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  • The next great American frontier is UP!

    Updated: 2010-06-30 20:22:24
    The Space Development Steering Committee has released the following statement with accompanying graphic, which may be freely distributed: In the 19th century, America redefined the global economy by opening a new frontier, a new landscape of real estate, resources, and opportunities. That American advance ended famine in Europe by giving the world the grain harvests of [...]

  • Briefs; WK2 flight; CSF welcomes new NSP; The Business of NewSpace

    Updated: 2010-06-30 17:40:47
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Briefs WK2 flight CSF welcomes new NSP The Business of NewSpace

  • Image of the Day: Alex's 80-90 MPH Winds Roaring Into Gulf -Ecological Hyper-Tragedy Unfolding

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:38:34

  • Space policy roundup

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:30:33
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Space policy roundup Briefly : wish lists , space socialism , and

  • Where In The Universe #110

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:00:55
    It’s time once again for another Where In The Universe Challenge. Test your visual knowledge of the cosmos by naming where in the Universe this image was taken and give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft/telescope responsible for this picture. Post your guesses in the comments section, and check back on later [...]

  • Google Neglects Philanthropic Program

    Updated: 2010-06-30 12:25:28
    Google… what the hell? I submitted some good ideas to that program.

  • Space Exploration in the Age of Homo Sapiens 2.0

    Updated: 2010-06-30 08:15:00
    Will the future of space exploration evolve into a hybrid of human and robotic expeditions, one which may change the face of humanity in space? The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to...

  • ET Tech: "Could Technology Exist That's Beyond Information & Matter?" (A Galaxy Classic)

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:50:00
    Stephen Hawking warned recently that contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could have dire consequences for the human species. Arthur C Clarke once made the famous observation that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. Following in their...

  • Pleiades - NASA's "Deep Thought"

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:16:00
    "Good morning, Dave." NASA uses "Pleiades," its petaflops supercomputer, to make blindingly fast and accurate measurements in the field of “higher fidelity” modeling and simulation. For instance, NASA already is using supercomputers to model black holes. It will also help...

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:08:00

  • Pop Culture: "Space Nazis Attack!"

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:06:00
    A team of Finnish filmmakers will soon start shooting an outlandish sci-fi Nazi movie financed in part by avid fans. The first teaser for Iron Sky, Space Nazis Attack, above, has generated more than 1.3 million YouTube views since its...

  • 'You Couldn't Make This Up' Dept

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:05:00
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  • The Hayabusa's amazing journey

    Updated: 2010-06-30 06:39:55
    It will be a shame if the Hayabusa capsule failed to capture any Itokawa asteroid dust, but even if it didn't the story of the mission should still become legendary as the robot spacecraft survival equivalent of the Shackelton Expedition in Antarctica: Japanese spacecraft returns from asteroid mission, years overdue - Washington Post - June.29.10

  • Red Bull Stratos update

    Updated: 2010-06-30 06:27:31
    The latest on the Red Bull Stratos high altitude sky jump project: Red Bull Stratos: Update on High Altitude Jump Project62 Mile Club - June.29.10

  • This and that...

    Updated: 2010-06-30 03:31:45
    . Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card This and that . Some misc . : items So the crude way may also in fact

  • Briefs: NASA budget; Money for Orion;

    Updated: 2010-06-30 03:16:17
    : Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Briefs : NASA budget Money for Orion Further comments on the House

  • Zapping Titan-Like Atmosphere with UV Creates Life Precursors

    Updated: 2010-06-30 03:04:19
    From the University of Arizona The first experimental evidence showing how atmospheric nitrogen can be incorporated into organic macromolecules is being reported by a University of Arizona team. The finding indicates what organic molecules might be found on Titan, the moon of Saturn that scientists think is a model for the chemistry of pre-life Earth. [...]

  • Don Heathfield = Russian Spy?

    Updated: 2010-06-30 03:01:30
    Today I got a call from the Boston Globe letting me know that a member of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, “Don Heathfield”, turned out to be a Russian spy. What a surprise, huh? Naturally, I voted to remove him from the board. The Lifeboat Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board has 1,148 members. I guess [...]

  • Briefs: SS1 stands out; Enterprise inspection; A rocket for real men

    Updated: 2010-06-30 02:13:43
    SpaceShipOne is a youngster at the museum: In awe at D.C.'s Air and Space Museum - Geek Gestalt/CNET News. === The Shuttle Enterprise appears in good shape for ferrying to some luck museum: Structural Inspections Find Enterprise in Better Than Expected Condition - NASASpaceFlight.com. === So you want the biggest, baddest heavy lifter on the planet? Well here's your engine: Rocketdyne 24 Million Pound Thrust Rocket Engine - The Unwanted Blog.

  • Defending Planet Earth: National Research Council Final Report

    Updated: 2010-06-30 01:38:04
    The latest addition to the NSS website Planetary Defense Library is Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Final Report (June 2010), by the National Research Council. The 132 page book is available for free download or for purchase in hard copy. Abstract: The United States spends approximately $4 million [...]

  • Briefs: NSP reactions; POR bill; House appropriations subcmte update

    Updated: 2010-06-29 23:22:57
    : Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Briefs : NSP reactions POR bill House appropriations subcmte update

  • Opportunity Rover Able to See More Detail of Endeavour Crater

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:58:23
    From a JPL press release: Mars rover team members have begun informally naming features around the rim of Endeavour Crater, as they develop plans to investigate that destination when NASA's Opportunity rover arrives there after many more months of driving. A new, super-resolution view of a portion of Endeavour's rim reveals details that were not [...]

  • NM spaceport construction progressing

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:56:54
    A posting on Twitter today: Spaceport_NM As of today, overall construction is 63% complete.Recent photos of the Spaceport America construction.

  • NASA announces $8M for studies into HLV technologies

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:53:07
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card NASA announces 8M for studies into HLV technologies NASA issues an

  • Breaking News from the U of MN! Nanotechnology for better solar energy capture

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:26:41
    Site Navigation Blog Topics The Dead Sea Scrolls Oil spill in the gulf Vaccines Mayan calendar Swine Flu Minnesota geology Archive Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Mentors Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Copyright Information Contact Us Privacy Help Be part of the buzz . Login Register Research findings Breaking News from the U of MN Nanotechnology for better solar energy capture by KelsiDayle on Jun . 29th , 2010 Old-fashioned . Now out of date Solar cells have been around for decades , but with low-efficiency and high manufacturing costs , they have yet to be adapted into our everyday

  • Lawrence Livermore Simulating Viable Nuclear Bomb Asteroid Deflections

    Updated: 2010-06-29 18:34:56
    skip to main skip to sidebar June 29, 2010 Lawrence Livermore Simulating Viable Nuclear Bomb Asteroid Deflections Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There have been disagreements about the best way to deflect asteroids . There is option of a nuclear bomb or gentler non-nuclear . methods David Dearborn , a research physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore , says that if an asteroid was expected to collide with Earth within the next 50 years , using nuclear explosives to divert or disperse the hostile space rock could be the best . alternative The nuclear bomb is the strongest bomb we know , said Dearborn , who presented his study last month at the 216th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Miami , Fl . It's about 3

  • Earth's Gravity Seen in HD

    Updated: 2010-06-29 14:37:03
    The sleek and sexy-looking GOCE satellite has provided a new, finely detailed look at Earth's gravity – in high definition. This is the first-ever global gravity model and is based on just two months of data from the low-flying GOCE. "GOCE is delivering where it promised: in the fine spatial scales," GOCE Mission Manager Rune [...]

  • Zenit.org on Transhumanism

    Updated: 2010-06-29 08:31:08
    Here’s the post: WASHINGTON, DC, APRIL 21, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The ideas of the young international movement known as “transhumanism” are beginning to characterize the thinking of an increasing number of clinicians and bioethicists. I thought therefore that our readers might profit from a brief introduction to them. From the “about us” page: ZENIT is a [...]

  • Asteroid Response System in Place (Complete With U.S. Military Eye Patch)

    Updated: 2010-06-29 08:00:00
    If an asteroid with Planet Earth's name on it shows up, we're prepared. Astronomers in Haleakala, Hawaii have announced that the Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope, PS1, is fully operational. Pan-STARRS will search for killer asteroids,...

  • A Moment of Zen: "The Conquest of Paradise"

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:10:00

  • The Daily "140" Insight: "The Future"

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:06:00
    “The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.” William Gibson, "noir prophet" and cyberpunk author of Neuromancer and Spook Country. </div

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

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:05:00
    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...

  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (6/29)

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:04:00
    The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains A 2007 scholarly review of hypertext experiments concluded that jumping between digital documents impedes understanding. And if links are bad for concentration and comprehension, it shouldn’t be surprising that more recent research suggests that...

  • This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien

    Updated: 2010-06-28 18:08:01
    An exclusive interview with SpaceX's safety officer delves into the post-flight review of the Falcon 9 test launch. Also this week, the final shuttle missions slip out and John Glenn enters debate about the space program's future. Subscribe on iTunes to This Week in Space. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No [...]

  • The Gulf Oil Spill: Back Into the Wild!

    Updated: 2010-06-28 07:14:00
    Pelicans are released into the wild Sunday June 20, 2010, at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in to the Saint Charles Bay. Nearly 40 pelicans were brought from to the refuge from the Louisiana shores where they had been covered...

  • The Daily "140" Insight

    Updated: 2010-06-28 07:08:00
    2010: "The Year We Make Contact." Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 -A Space Odyssey Image: Mars' enigmatic moon, Phobos

  • National Space Society Co-Sponsors NewSpace 2010 Conference July 23-25

    Updated: 2010-06-27 02:18:38
    The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to be a continuing co-Sponsor of the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) NewSpace Conference. This year the conference will take place July 23-25, 2010, at the Domain Hotel in Silicon Valley, CA. “The SFF NewSpace Conference seeks to expand the market place of ideas essential to growing the ecosystem of [...]

  • Astronomy Without A Telescope – Stellar Archaeology

    Updated: 2010-06-27 00:55:43
    Although, as we look further and deeper into the sky, we are always looking into the past – there are other ways of gaining information about the universe’s ancient history. Low mass, low metal stars may be remnants of the early universe and carry valuable information about the environment of that early universe.(...)Read the rest [...]

  • Cassini Image: Closest View of Helene

    Updated: 2010-06-26 22:30:40
    The Cassini spacecraft snapped this image during the spacecraft's closest flyby of Saturn's moon Helene, on March 3, 2010. read more

  • Spent Nuclear Fuel Composition and Brave New Climate's Renewables and Nuclear Power

    Updated: 2010-06-26 18:10:01
    skip to main skip to sidebar June 26, 2010 Spent Nuclear Fuel Composition and Brave New Climate's Renewables and Nuclear Power Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Energyfromthorium's Kirk Sorensen looks at what is in spent nuclear fuel after 20 . years 2. Brave new climate looks at climate change and nuclear power Brave New climate also looks at renewable energy and nuclear power with 18 answer to the following . questions Q1. How urgent is it to address climate change Q2. Why do we need nuclear power Won’t renewables provide our needs Q3. We need to act fast , aren’t renewables the fastest response Q4. Aren’t renewables the most affordable option Q5. What about storing excess energy for later use Q6. Isn’t it more important for us to scale down our

  • 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 [...]

  • Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth

    Updated: 2010-06-25 22:24:28
    The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June 27, 2010, getting a gravity assist to help propel the spacecraft towards a meetup with comet Hartley 2 this fall. The spacecraft bus that brought the Deep Impact "impactor" to comet Tempel 1 in July of 2005 has been put [...]

  • ISS Will Be in Constant Sunlight the Next Few Days

    Updated: 2010-06-25 20:15:38
    I just took a look at Heaven's Above to check on when I could see the International Space Station this weekend, and got the surprise of my life! On Saturday (June 26) I have 5 — count 'em — 5 opportunities to see it! That is completely unusual, so what's up? For the next few [...]

  • See the Sunrise Daily at Kennedy Space Center

    Updated: 2010-06-25 18:04:35
    Sunrises are beautiful almost any place in the world, but for some reason first light every morning over Central Florida is almost always breathtaking. Then, if you add into the mix a sunrise over Kennedy Space Center — America's Spaceport — any space geek will likely melt with delight. Thanks to Jen Scheer, a shuttle [...]

  • Climate Change Contributes to Space Junk Problem

    Updated: 2010-06-25 15:03:41
    The effects of climate change can be seen across the majority of the planet, but a new study reveals it is also affecting the space environment. New Scientist reports that increased carbon dioxide levels are cooling the upper atmosphere, which decreases the atmospheric density. This in turn affects how long defunct satellites, spent rocket boosters [...]

  • Was Venus Once a Waterworld?

    Updated: 2010-06-24 23:09:46
    Ever read Isaac Asimov's 1950's novel "Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus"? Maybe Asimov wasn't so wrong about Venus after all. Analyzing data from ESA’s Venus Express, planetary scientists are looking at the possibility that the planet may have once harbored oceans, and potentially could have been habitable when during its early history. (...)Read [...]

  • Evidence for Past Water on Mars Keeps Flowing, This Time from Glaciers

    Updated: 2010-06-24 22:11:47
    No sooner do we post one article about water on Mars when it's time for another. Planetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars — frozen and liquid — in the earliest period of the Red Planet’s history. They found evidence of running water that sprang from glaciers throughout the Martian middle latitudes [...]

  • Partial Lunar Eclipse Visible June 26, 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-24 21:08:29
    Wake up, SkyWatchers! A partial lunar eclipse is coming your way on June 26, 2010. While the real visible action will be best in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, observers to the east will be able to catch the beginning of the lunar eclipse and observers to the west will catch the end of [...]

  • Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?

    Updated: 2010-06-24 14:54:06
    Twenty-one teams are hard at work trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon. The GLXP folks released a video this week as an update on how the teams are progressing. The challenge is not only to land a [...]

  • Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

    Updated: 2010-06-23 19:15:07
    Likely, future interstellar flights will not include the exoplanet HD209458b as a featured get-away destination. Not only is this extrasolar planet a scorchingly hot world where the poisonous carbon monoxide atmosphere is being evaporated, but new observations show this gas giant also has superstorms with winds of 5,000 to 10,000 km per hour. "It's definitely [...]

  • Super Swooper: Cassini wraps up its lowest pass through Titan atmosphere

    Updated: 2010-06-21 23:53:38
    Cassini has successfully completed its lowest pass through Titan's atmosphere.

  • June is Space Elevator month

    Updated: 2010-06-20 02:55:55
    I’ve written about the NASA MICI (NASA Minority Innovation Challenges Institute) before (here), telling you all about a video which had been posted on this website.  This video showed portions of the competition in several of the recent NASA Centennial Challenges. That’s all well and cool, but Ben Shelef, CEO of the Spaceward Foundation (organizers of [...]

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

    Updated: 2010-06-18 18:01:32
    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...

  • Open Letter To President Obama

    Updated: 2010-06-18 06:13:10
    Blog Tools Edit your Blog Build a Blog RSS Feed View Profile June 2010 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 You are not logged . in Log in Entries by Topic All topics Adopt JPLSpaceFoundation Leeward Space Foundation Tripod Home Tripod Build Tripod Member Spotlight Register Your Domain Space Elevators Lycos Home Lycos Search Lycos News Leeward Space Foundation Friday , 18 June 2010 Open Letter To President Obama Dear Mr . , President Firstly , I would like to applaud your efforts to have BP set aside 20 billion to help pay the economic cost of the oil spill in the Gulf . nbsp Notice the quotes around the term oil spill I use quotes because I think the term trivializes the magnitude of the disaster . nbsp A spill occurs when you

  • Cassini to Swing Low Into Titan’s Atmosphere

    Updated: 2010-06-18 00:59:17
    César Bertucci This weekend, Cassini will embark on an exciting mission: trying to establish if Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, possesses a magnetic field of its own. This is important for understanding the moon’s interior and geochemical evolution. For Titan scientists, this is one of the most anticipated flybys of the whole mission. We want to get as [...]

  • Mysterious Flash On Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud

    Updated: 2010-06-17 21:03:25
    Detailed observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. It came from a giant meteor burning up high above Jupiter's cloud tops. The space visitor did not plunge deep enough into the atmosphere to explode and leave behind any telltale cloud of debris, as seen in previous Jupiter collisions. A closer look at Jupiter reveals a faint imprint where the giant meteor touched its surface three days before. Image credits: NASA...

  • LaserMotive gets some new sponsors…

    Updated: 2010-06-17 07:05:58
    Just a case of the rich getting richer…  Team LaserMotive, winners of a cool $900K in last year’s Climber / Power-Beaming portion of the Space Elevator Games, has acquired some new sponsors in its attempts to collect the remaining $1.1M in the NASA-provided prize pool. This is detailed on their latest blog posting on their website.  [...]

  • An (old) interview with Clayton Ruszkowski

    Updated: 2010-06-16 08:24:20
    Anyone who is familiar with the Climber / Power-Beaming team from the University of Saskatchewan, the USST team, knows or knows about Clayton Ruszkowski.  Clayton was the team captain for the first several years of their competing and, in the latest competition held in 2009, Clayton was there as an elder statesman… Many moons ago (Dec [...]

  • 2nd Annual JSETEC Competition announced

    Updated: 2010-06-15 07:05:43
    From August 6th-8th, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) will host it’s second annual JSETEC (Japan Space Elevator Technical & Engineering Competition) event.  I blogged about the inaugural event, held in 2009, here and here.  It was a great success and I’m sure this year’s event will be to. This year’s event will be held at [...]

  • Translating to Belorussian…

    Updated: 2010-06-14 01:18:20
    A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Patricia C., asking me if she could translate my post Hey Lasers - Happy 50th Birthday! into Belorussian (her mother tongue).  Of course I was happy to agree, asking as my only ‘payment’ if she would send me the Belorussian translation of “Space Elevator”. A few [...]

  • National Space Society Announces “NSS in Second Life” Machinima Contest Winner

    Updated: 2010-06-13 04:50:45
    The National Space Society announces that the winning video in the 2010 NSS in Second Life Machinima Contest is “Dreamer’s Journey” by Rocksea Renegade. Second Life is an online 3D virtual world where participants can interact as avatars. Machinima is an art form consisting of computer animation of such virtual worlds. Entries were required [...]

  • A fleet to realize the new vision

    Updated: 2010-06-11 22:33:07
    I think that President Obama’s vision for NASA holds a great deal of promise. However, I seem to be in the minority – with people from Senators with NASA-associated districts to Stephen Colbert to Jesus Diaz on Gizmodo talking about the “end” of the human space program. I often wonder why they don’t see what [...]

  • Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator, comments on NSS and NASA

    Updated: 2010-06-11 00:34:24
    NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, who served as NSS Executive Director for almost a decade, shared her insights on numerous space matters in an exclusive video interview for NSS during the International Space Development Conference in Chicago last month. She credits NSS with a major role in the formation of her views on space policy and [...]

  • The ISEC 2009 Space Elevator Poster

    Updated: 2010-06-10 06:53:23
    No, that’s not a typo - this post is about the ISEC 2009 Space Elevator Poster.  One of our goals at ISEC is for us to issue a commemorative poster each year.  For various and sundry reasons, the poster for 2009 never got created, until now.  The fact that we now have one is almost [...]

  • Space Solar Power is Unspillable

    Updated: 2010-06-09 05:02:46
    Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, has proposed an answer to the Louisiana oil spill. It’s solar energy harvested in space, known in the space community as Space Solar Power. “The timing of the oil catastrophe,” says Aldrin, “is a great opportunity for re-evaluating solar energy from space.” We’ve been harvesting solar [...]

  • The Sun Awakens

    Updated: 2010-06-07 12:25:57
    June 7, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th. Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about:"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technologic...

  • VTVLs as RTLS Boosters

    Updated: 2010-06-07 02:34:56
    guest blogger john hare The increasing tempo of VTVL development flights and the recent success of the Falcon 9 lead to possibilities for a different type of cooperative venture. Two companies have VTVLs testing  that are pretty much gas-n-go while SpaceX has vehicles that are quite difficult to get back. Using gas-n-go boosters to improve an [...]

  • A Small Serving of Crow

    Updated: 2010-06-06 12:51:26
    guest blogger john hare SpaceX nailed the Falcon 9 on the first try. There is enough crow being eaten around the country now that somebody should put out a cookbook. My serving comes from the expressed belief that the opening of space will come through the incremental development with RLVs starting from suborbital through small orbital and [...]

  • Titan !???

    Updated: 2010-06-06 01:28:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Saturday , June 5, 2010 Titan Titan is one of only two worlds known to have open surface seas , and a cycle of evaporation , rainfall , and . streams No industrial FUBAR is needed to fill Titan's seas with hydrocarbons , but its gleaming rivers and seas turn out to be short of acetyline , and its lower atmosphere deficient in hydrogen . Some curious chemistry appears to be going on there . H T to commenter Thucydides for this link , which in turn takes you to this piece in New Scientist Hear these words of : wisdom Scientific conservatism suggests that a biological explanation should be the last choice after all non-biological explanations are addressed ,

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