• ATK Completes Software TIM for Liberty

    Updated: 2012-06-30 15:04:05
    Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Russia to Create Own DARPASKI” ATK Completes Software TIM for Liberty Posted by Doug Messier on June 30, 2012, at 7:04 am in News Tags : ATK commercial crew Liberty Comments : no responses 0 Comments ARLINGTON , Va . June 28, 2012 ATK PR ATK completed its Liberty software technical interface meeting TIM which was held to support further development of the Liberty space transportation system under  the company’s Space Act Agreement SAA with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development . Program The software TIM was conducted to evaluate Liberty’s software development plan with the NASA Liberty team . The plan governs the software process used by Liberty and its subcontractors

  • Russia to Create Own “DARPASKI”

    Updated: 2012-06-30 14:50:28
    Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Space Propulsion Group Tests Advanced Hybrid Motor ATK Completes Software TIM for Liberty Russia to Create Own DARPASKI” Posted by Doug Messier on June 30, 2012, at 6:50 am in News Tags : Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Rogozin Skolkovo Vladimir Putin Comments : no responses 0 Comments Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin . Credit : A . Savin By Douglas Messier Parabolic Arc Managing Editor As I first reported back in February , Russia is moving forward with the development of its own DARPA . Ruler-for-Life Vladimir Putin has sent a bill to the Duma to establish the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry , which Wired has dubbed . DARPASKI The

  • The Great Disruption: the End/the Beginning of Everything

    Updated: 2012-06-30 14:47:16
    : 01 news 02 sub orbit 03 orbit 04 moon 05 planetary 06 environment 07 video search daily spaceflight news today's moon waxing gibbous Saturday 30 June 2012 Book your flight Space travel is right around the . corner Let Moonandback get you on . board Sign up . now Commentary The Great Disruption : the End the Beginning of Everything by michael belfiore I had the pleasure of being one of two featured speakers along with Paul Gilding at the 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit in Singapore a couple of weeks . ago Paul’s book , The Great Disruption , and his talk on the subject pretty much blew me away . I’ve been thinking about them ever since . In fact , I dare say Paul’s ideas have changed the way I think about the future and the role of innovation in our . society In a nutshell , goes

  • Space Propulsion Group Tests Advanced Hybrid Motor

    Updated: 2012-06-30 14:21:16
    Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Awesome Photos of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in Flight Russia to Create Own DARPASKI” Space Propulsion Group Tests Advanced Hybrid Motor Posted by Doug Messier on June 30, 2012, at 6:21 am in News Tags : hybrids propulsion Space Propulsion Group Comments : no responses 0 Comments BUTTE , Mont . Space Propulsion Group , Inc . SPG today successfully completed a major technology development test of its 22-inch-diameter , Liquid Oxygen paraffin-based advanced hybrid rocket motor . This cutting-edge hybrid propulsion technology has practical applications for numerous space-related industries , including transportation , defense , suborbital research and . tourism SPG’s

  • Moonandback Interview with Feng Hsu, part 1 – Space Based Solar Power

    Updated: 2012-06-30 14:00:46
    moonandback: Feng Hsu, Sr. V.P. of Systems Engineering & Risk Management of the Space Energy Group, talks with MM about working on risk management for NASA’s Space Shuttle and space based solar power. **For optimal viewing experience choose full screen option.

  • Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Sunday

    Updated: 2012-06-30 12:48:57
    SPACE.com: The three Expedition 31 crewmembers are expected to land in Kazakhstan on Sunday.

  • Alternative Fuel Rocket Engine Roars to Life in Test

    Updated: 2012-06-30 12:44:37
    SPACE.com: The hybrid motor could lead to more efficient rockets down the road, its builders say.

  • Leap Second Science: NASA Explains Earth's Longer Day Today

    Updated: 2012-06-30 12:42:20
    SPACE.com: The moon's pull is slowing down Earth's rotation.

  • Craters Reveal Mars Water Ran Deep

    Updated: 2012-06-30 11:23:38
    Astrobiology Magazine: By studying rocks blasted out of impact craters, ESA s Mars Express has found evidence that underground water persisted at depth for prolonged periods during the first billion years of the Red Planet

  • The Science Behind “Chasing UFOs” – Episode 1

    Updated: 2012-06-30 10:01:47
    Astrowright Chronicles of someone trying to get off the . rock Home About Time Space Planetary Adventures . C.V What is an astrowright The Science Behind Chasing UFOs” Episode 1 30 06 2012 A Saturn V rocket at NASA’s Johnson Space Center . Credit : Ben McGee For those who might like to delve more deeply into or simply know more about the science behind the National Geographic Channel series Chasing UFOs , 8221 including moon rockets , interviews with a former NASA Human Factors Director , and an artifact find at the Old Grist Mill , look no further Link through to my article on the NatGeo TV blog : here http : tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com 2012 06 30 the-science-of-chasing-ufos-texas-is-for-sightings Cheers , and here goes nothing Ben Rate : this Like : this Like Be the first to like .

  • NRO Satellite Launches On Board Delta-IV Heavy

    Updated: 2012-06-30 09:53:02
    Space Fellowship: CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. -- The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 today carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket. An Atlas V carrying another NRO payload was just launched from Complex 41 at the Cape June 20. The 45th Space Wing co [...]

  • Downloading a malicious virus from outer space and supercontinent assembly

    Updated: 2012-06-30 01:00:08
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Alien Life We reside during a remarkable time , an age when humanity is about to cross a threshold . We are about to leave the nest and meet alien life . This blog is dedicated to the science of astrobiology : understanding space , the field of our search exploring the one example we have of life and its abode , our Earth reaching for the stars imagining what extraterrestrial life may be like and encouraging science education . Please join me for daily updates on the ultimate human . adventure Saturday , June 30, 2012 Downloading a malicious virus from outer space and supercontinent assembly Welcome Alien Life tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation Here's today's : news g Abodes A new study shows that

  • Excalibur Almaz offering a wide array of in-space services

    Updated: 2012-06-29 23:26:00
    Rob Coppinger describes Excalibur Almaz's lunar expedition trips, which have gotten lots of public attention, but he also discusses their plans for a variety of other potential markets: Space Tourist Trips to the Moon May Fly on Recycled Spaceships - Space.com.

  • More about SPG paraffin fueled hybrid rocket motors

    Updated: 2012-06-29 23:11:45
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here More about SPG paraffin fueled hybrid

  • Briefs: Private asteroid telescope; David Valentine, pt. 4

    Updated: 2012-06-29 22:36:26
    Paul Gilster comments on the recently announced privately-funded projects to survey nea rearth asteroids: Private Funding for Asteroid Telescope - Centauri Dreams === In the fourth segment of the Moonandback interview with anthropologist David Valentine, he "argues that while the NewSpace Community uses historical analogies, people within the community want to do away with analogies, to experience things that have no analogue. Can that be successful? David explains why not." Interview with David Valentine, part 4 - Analogies - Moonandback.

  • Delta IV Heavy launch success

    Updated: 2012-06-29 21:51:06
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here Delta IV Heavy launch success A Delta

  • Briefs; VG MacKay pilots SS2; DARPA & air launch; Lunar tourism

    Updated: 2012-06-29 21:44:39
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here Briefs VG MacKay pilots SS2 DARPA air

  • GEO sat launch costs

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:56:49
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here GEO sat launch costs I recently linked

  • Bas Lansdorp wants to establish a Mars outpost by 2023

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:48:26
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 29, 2012 Bas Lansdorp wants to establish a Mars outpost by 2023 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet One of the main difficulties with any manned Mars mission that aims to land humans on the surface of Mars and return them to Earth is getting humans off of the surface of Mars . Mars has 40 Earth gravity , and overcoming such a gravity well would be problematic . But a European entrepreneur named Bas Lansdorp wants to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars , and to pay for it as a media event . If Mr . Lansdorp meets his goals , the first four settlers will arrive on Mars in 2023, and four more settlers will join them every two years . In an interview for Next Big Future with Sander Olson , Lansdorp discusses the Mars One

  • Boeing: validation of CST-100 thruster system

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:32:09
    : Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here Boeing : validation of CST-100

  • "Mars' Moon Phobos May Yield Alien Life" --NASA Experts

    Updated: 2012-06-29 15:45:00
    A mission to Mars'moon Phobos could return with alien life, experts at Purdue University have suggested.“A sample from Phobos, which is much easier to reach than the Red Planet itself, would almost surely contain Martian material blasted off from large...

  • Saturn's Titan Harbors an Ocean of Water --Increases Odds for Life

    Updated: 2012-06-29 13:30:00
    Saturn's Titan has been considered a “unique world in the solar system” since 1908 when, the Spanish astronomer, José Comas y Solá, discovered that it had an atmosphere, something non-existent on other moons. It seems perfectly appropriate that one of...

  • "Galaxy" Fans: Geeks & Techies --We Need 5 Minutes of Your Time!

    Updated: 2012-06-29 10:00:00
    Please help us by filling out a cool consumer tech survey that will help us bring in ad $ so we can bring you the "Galaxy" daily. You'll also have a shot at winning an iPad. Just click here --it...

  • New sea and air delivery systems to enable direct support to disaster zones from offshore container ships

    Updated: 2012-06-29 07:57:11
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 28, 2012 New sea and air delivery systems to enable direct support to disaster zones from offshore container ships Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet DARPA’s Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform TEMP program has completed the design of innovative technologies to transform commercial container ships into self-contained floating supply bases during disaster relief operations , without needing port infrastructure . The program envisions a container ship anchoring offshore of a disaster area , and the ship’s crew delivering supplies ashore using DARPA-developed , modular on-board cranes and air- and sea-delivery . vehicles DARPA recently completed the first phase of the program , which developed four key modular systems

  • SPG demos their paraffin fueled hybrid rocket motor

    Updated: 2012-06-29 06:46:16
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here SPG demos their paraffin fueled hybrid

  • Briefs: ISS on Science Friday; Space media panel; NASA's pennies

    Updated: 2012-06-29 06:35:02
    A reader tells me the ISS crew will be interviewed today on Science Friday program, which airs between 2-4 pm ET. === Here are some notes on a medial panel discussion held this week with Leonard David (space.com), William Harwood (CBS News), Irene Kotz (Reuters) and Jim Lewis (Communications Concepts) with David Livingston, host of the Space Show, as moderator: Space Media Panel Held at Florida Institute of Technology - AmericaSpace. === Some thoughts on the NASA budget penny campaign: A Penny for Your Thoughts - CitizensInSpace.org

  • Briefs: XCOR tech job; Summer launching in Denmark; More SS2

    Updated: 2012-06-29 06:25:09
    : Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Mars Society Convention Pasadena , . CA August 3 5, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here Briefs : XCOR tech job Summer

  • Photo: Space Station Solar Arrays Catch a Sunrise

    Updated: 2012-06-29 03:47:00
    The sun "peeking" through a solar array panel on the International Space Station caught the attention of one of the Expedition 31 crew members aboard the International Space Station. The thin blue line of Earth's atmosphere is visible in the background. ISS031-E-112645 (6 June 2012) --- high reslow res (85 K)

  • Photo: Zero Robotics (SPHERES ZR) Flying Inside the Space Station

    Updated: 2012-06-29 03:30:40
    Two bowling-ball-sized free-flying satellites called Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites Zero Robotics (SPHERES ZR) are pictured during a test session in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. ISS031-E-140672 (22 June 2012) --- high res (1.6 M) low res (91 K)

  • Photo: FIres in Wyoming Range As Seen From Space

    Updated: 2012-06-29 03:26:28
    An Expedition 31 crew member aboard the International Space Station, flying approximately 240 miles above Earth, recorded a series of images of the current wild fires in the southwestern United States. These particular fires, of unknown cause, are burning at the south end of the Wyoming Range in southwestern Wyoming, and have affected 17,000 acres. read more

  • Private Space Telescope will scan for dangerous asteroids

    Updated: 2012-06-28 21:18:55
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 28, 2012 Private Space Telescope will scan for dangerous asteroids Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The B612 Foundation has unveiled its plans to build , launch , and operate the first privately funded deep space mission SENTINEL a space telescope to be placed in orbit around the Sun , ranging up to 170 million miles from Earth , for a mission of discovery and mapping . The Foundation leadership and technical team include some of the most experienced professionals in the world to lead this . effort A new infrared space telescope will be put into solar orbit , up to 170 million miles from earth . It will protect humanity , map the inner solar system and enable . exploration Popular Science has coverage B612’s

  • Privately and publicly looking for Earth-threatening asteroids

    Updated: 2012-06-28 19:53:24
    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 Stellar tantrum blasts away part of its planet’s atmosphere Huge lenticular cloud near Mt . Fuji Privately and publicly looking for Earth-threatening asteroids Note : In the interest of full disclosure , I am friends with many of the folks on both teams described below . I have tried to be scrupulously fair to both missions , and to be honest as I say below the best thing to happen would be for both missions to be locked , loaded , and looking for potentially hazardous rocks . The B612 Foundation is a group of scientists , astronauts , astronomers , and engineers who have come

  • B612 Foundation Announces First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission

    Updated: 2012-06-28 15:25:18
    Saturday , June 30, 2012 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts B612 Foundation Announces First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission Submitted by keithcowing on Thu , 06 28 2012 07:25. Planetary Science In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning , the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build , launch , and operate the first privately funded deep space mission SENTINEL a space telescope to be placed in orbit around the Sun , ranging up to 170 million miles from Earth , for a mission of discovery and mapping . The Foundation leadership and technical team include some of the most experienced professionals in the world to lead this . effort The orbits of the inner solar system where Earth lies are

  • Space-time crystals of trapped ions

    Updated: 2012-06-28 08:45:13
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 28, 2012 Space-time crystals of trapped ions Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Arxiv Space-time crystals of trapped ions 6 pages One of the basic properties of spatial crystals is that they form when a system drops to its lowest possible energy state . They are not the result of adding energy to a system , but of taking it away . All of . it Another basic property is that when these objects reach their lowest energy configuration , their symmetry breaks down . Instead of being the same in all directions , like the laws of physics , these objects become the same in only a few directions . It is this symmetry-breaking and the periodic structure it produces that defines . crystals Wilczek and Shapere persuasively argued

  • China and the USA partner for molten salt thorium reactor project and India plans a Thorium Reactor

    Updated: 2012-06-28 01:12:19
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 China and the USA partner for molten salt thorium reactor project and India plans a Thorium Reactor Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet 1. The U.S . Department of Energy is quietly collaborating with China on an alternative nuclear power design known as a molten salt reactor that could run on thorium . fuel China plans to have a 5 megawatt molten salt reactor in 2015. DOE’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy Peter Lyons is co-chairing the partnership’s executive committee , along with Jiang Mianheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS according to a March presentation by CAS on thorium molten salt reactors . Beijing-based CAS is a state group overseeing about 100 research institutes . It and the DOE

  • High Speed Robotic Vision Enables a Robotic Hand to Always beat Humans at Rock, Paper Scissors

    Updated: 2012-06-27 21:45:45
    , skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 High Speed Robotic Vision Enables a Robotic Hand to Always beat Humans at Rock , Paper Scissors Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet IEEE Spectrum A robot from the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Toyko is unbeatable at rock , paper . scissors It's one of those high speed hands that works with a high speed vision system . And when we say high speed , we mean fast enough that you can't really tell that the robot is . cheating It only takes a single millisecond for the robot to recognize what shape your hand is in , and just a few more for it to make the shape that beats . you Ishikawa Oku Lab website If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by

  • India Nuclear Reactor Project News Roundup

    Updated: 2012-06-27 18:41:39
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 India Nuclear Reactor Project News Roundup Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet 1. Business Standard Work on additional two 500 MW prototype fast breeder reactor units at BHAVINI at Kalpakkam , India would commence by 2015 Kumar said around Rs 2500 crore has been spent so far on the project , which began in 2009. He replied in the affirmative when asked whether they have to raise funds for the additional 2x500 MW . projects Approximately , I will say , we will be raising funds of Rs 1000 crore he said and added that they planned to begin construction for the two plants by 2015. 2. The first 500 MWe prototype fast breeder reactor PFBR at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu is slated to start operations in 2013. The sites for

  • 1200 Megawatt fast reactor approved for Beloyarsk

    Updated: 2012-06-27 18:17:03
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 1200 Megawatt fast reactor approved for Beloyarsk Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet World Nuclear News The government of the Sverdlovsk region of Russia has approved the construction of the country's first BN-1200 fast reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant . The unit will be built to replace the existing smaller BN-600 reactor at the plant , which is scheduled to be shut down by 2020. The government said that the planned 1200 MWe unit will produce around 9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and help avoid the emission of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide . In addition , it would completely remove the region's need to import fossil fuels . With a 60-year operating life , the reactor is

  • Image: Mauritania As Seen From the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-06-27 17:34:56
    Mauritania as photograph by International Space Station astronaut Andre Kuipers on 10 May 2012 using a Nikon D2Xs. Larger image

  • Teachers: help your kids detect cosmic rays

    Updated: 2012-06-27 17:30:59
    : 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 The galaxy that shouldn’t be there Virtual Star Party featured at big Google+ meeting Teachers : help your kids detect cosmic rays One thing I like to see is kids getting their hands on doing science . There’s something about being involved with something , actually doing it for yourself , that gives you a sense of ownership over the knowledge , makes you part of something . bigger Here’s another chance to do that for students across the world : the ERGO telescope project ERGO stands for Energetic Ray Global Observatory and the idea is to build simple cosmic-ray detectors

  • Image: View Inside Zarya Module of the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-06-27 17:19:28
    </p Functional Cargo Block, FGB, Zarya. The oldest part of the Station. In space since 1998. This photo was taken on May 16, 2012 by International Space Station astronaut Andre Kuipers using a Nikon D2Xs. Credit: ESA/NASA Larger image

  • Image: Lightning Flash in Africa As Seen From the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-06-27 17:15:34
    During each nighttime pass we can see many lightning flashes. This one over West Africa. This photo was taken on June 4, 2012 by International Space Station astronaut Andre Kuipers using a Nikon D3S. Credit: ESA/NASA Larger image

  • NASA Tweaks Flight Path of Mars Science Lab --On Track for August 5th Touchdown at Gale Crater

    Updated: 2012-06-27 15:45:00
    On Tuesday, NASA adjusted the flight path of Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft on for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target at Gale Crater.The car-size, one-ton rover is bound for arrival the evening of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (early...

  • Google Glasses can only be bought at I/O Developers conference

    Updated: 2012-06-27 08:27:04
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 Google Glasses can only be bought at I O Developers conference Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet CNN Money Google's science-fiction-like virtual reality glasses will start shipping next year with a price tag of 1,500 but most buyers won't be able to get their hands on a pair just . yet The under-development glasses , a stealth project hatched in the company's mysterious Google X lab , are still buggy , Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Wednesday at Google's I O developer conference . Google also faces regulatory hurdles that prevent the glasses from being shipped anywhere but the United . States So for now , only U.S . based attendees of this week's I O developers conference will be eligible to buy the Google

  • Baroness Worthington at the US Space and Rocket Center

    Updated: 2012-06-27 03:09:44
    Several weeks ago Baroness Bryony Worthington of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom came to visit Flibe Energy in Huntsville, and as we in Huntsville are wont to do, we took her to the US Space and Rocket Center, where I gave her a guided tour of America’s race to the Moon. I [...]

  • SETICON 2 & Beyond --"Mankind Will Make Contact with Intelligent Alien Life within Two Decades"

    Updated: 2012-06-26 13:48:30
    SETICon 2 conference ran this past weekend in Santa Clara, California to share ideas on what has been discovered of late regarding the possibility of life on other planets and what might lie ahead.Much of the discussion was focused on...

  • Mining the Solar System --Will Spur Our Future Colonization of the Milky Way? (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2012-06-26 12:00:00

  • Video: The History of the Moon

    Updated: 2012-06-25 23:59:29
    From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video! This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10930

  • Saturn's Jet Streams --Powered by Heat from Inside the Giant Planet

    Updated: 2012-06-25 16:53:21
    Saturn's turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across the giant gas planet. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy structures in Saturn's atmosphere...

  • Titanium-44 --The Key to Predicting Massive Supernova Explosions

    Updated: 2012-06-24 17:00:00
    Why is it that some massive old star far out in the Milky Way fail to explode in a supernova phemonena? "We don't fully understand how supernovas of massive stars work yet," says Fiona Harrison, an astrophysicist at the California...

  • News Update: Manned Chinese Spacecraft Completes Docking with Orbiting Module Tiangong 1

    Updated: 2012-06-24 14:57:24
    The image above is from the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 lab module, partly seen on left, are conjoined again Sunday, June 24, 2012. Three Chinese astronauts...

  • More Videos from the International Space Development Conference

    Updated: 2012-06-23 16:58:33
    The following presentations from the 2012 NSS International Space Development Conference in Washington, DC, are now available on the NSS website. Michael Lopez-Alegria, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander. Saturday Luncheon Keynote Address. 73 minute video. Doug McCuistion, Director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. 58 minute video. International Space [...]

  • Image of the Day --Moon Ice!

    Updated: 2012-06-22 15:30:00
    NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The team of NASA and university scientists...

  • Planet's Metals "Trigger Creation and Evolution of Primitive Cells"

    Updated: 2012-06-21 15:30:00
    A little less than 2 billion years ago, metals including copper, molybdenum and zinc became available to primitive cells, at the same time that the cells began to become much more complex. Scientists indicate that they have identified the event...

  • Image of the Day: A New View of Saturn and Its Enigmatic Moon Titan

    Updated: 2012-06-20 17:30:00
    Saturn's largest moon, Titan appears to be strung like a bead on its rings, which cast shadows onto the southern hemisphere of the gas giant in this extraordinary image from the Cassini Spacecraft. Faint but exquisite detail in the gas...

  • Goodspaceguy, 2012 candidate for Congress from Washington State, District 7

    Updated: 2012-06-19 00:25:00
    : , , Our Spaceship Earth Monday , June 18, 2012 Goodspaceguy , 2012 candidate for Congress from Washington State , District 7 Dear Voters and fellow Crew Members of our Spaceship Earth , 2012 June : 16 This is Message 43 from me , Goodspaceguy , on my blog Our Spaceship . Earth I am now a 2012 candidate for US Representative to Congress from the 7th Congressional District of Washington State . I , Goodspaceguy , ask that you think of our Earth as a natural spaceship that travels in our solar system around our star , the Sun , and with our Sun travels within our Milky Way Galaxy , a collection of hundreds of billions of solar systems . Our knowledge of science and technology is continuing to advance . Guided by the Science of Economics , let’s solve national and world problems from the

  • Mars is calling: Be part of the conversation!

    Updated: 2012-06-18 23:06:06
    NASA is busy replanning the future Mars Exploration Program — and wants to hear from you! NASA has opened a forum for public input on its Mars Exploration Program, the purpose of which is to achieve high-priority science goals and address the challenges of sending humans to Mars, all within an environment of very constrained [...]

  • “Getting to space on a thread…”

    Updated: 2012-06-18 03:57:10
    While reviewing some of the older Space Elevator Conference programs and trying to see if some of the presenters were still active in the SE arena, I ran across this 2007 paper by Major Jason Kent. This paper, entitled “Getting to Space on a Thread - Space Elevator as an Alternative Access to Space” was a [...]

  • More Videos from the International Space Development Conference

    Updated: 2012-06-17 16:20:26
    The following presentations from the 2012 NSS International Space Development Conference in Washington, DC, are now available on the NSS website. Jeff Greason: The 20 Year Plan? Saturday Dinner Keynote Address. Greason is president of XCOR Aerospace and was a member of the President’s Human Space Flight Review Committee (Augustine Committee) in 2009. 54 minute [...]

  • Decisions and Costs to the Private Sector

    Updated: 2012-06-12 22:29:33
    very occasional contributor john hare I noticed the other day that Space Ship Two is supposed to be flying powered flights by the end of this year, and revenue flights by the end of next year. This is nine years from XPrize victory to revenue service if they make this latest time table. The development [...]

  • Videos from the International Space Development Conference Online

    Updated: 2012-06-10 04:11:15
    Videos of presentations from the 2012 NSS International Space Development Conference in Washington, DC, are now available on the NSS website. Charles F. Bolden, Administrator of NASA. Opening Keynote Address. Prior to becoming NASA Administrator, Bolden was a Shuttle astronaut who flew four missions, including the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. 60 minute video. SpaceX Update. [...]

  • Why to be Skeptical of Mars One

    Updated: 2012-06-08 14:42:37
    Dutch company Mars One offers a plan to start colonizing the Red Planet by, ostensibly, 2023 – starting with a “colony” of four and growing the base every year. There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical of this plan. Don’t get me wrong: I would love for these guys to succeed, and I think [...]

  • NSS Mourns Passing of Ray Bradbury, Author and NSS Space Pioneer Award Recipient

    Updated: 2012-06-08 14:28:43
    The National Space Society mourns the loss of legendary author and visionary, Ray D. Bradbury, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 91. The author of more than 50 books, Bradbury’s works encompassed many genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. He is most widely known for his novels, The Martian Chronicles (1950), [...]

  • NASA Gains Breathing Room On Commercial Crew Program

    Updated: 2012-06-08 05:55:57
    NASA has negotiated a continuation of its successful Space Acts Agreements (SAA) procedures for contracting and funding of the next phase of its Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The SAA has also been the process for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), which saw the flight of the SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station [...]

  • The Return of the Kansas City Space Pirates

    Updated: 2012-06-07 05:30:27
    Followers of this blog and/or the Space Elevator Games are very familiar with the Kansas City Space Pirates.  Captain Brian Turner and his fellow team members competed in several of the Space Elevator Games - Power Beaming competitions and acquitted themselves very well. They have a new challenge they want to meet and that is to [...]

  • Venus Transit Today!!

    Updated: 2012-06-06 00:31:00
    : Freeluna Lunar Colonization Blog Space colonization offers the best possible future for mankind , and the colonization of the moon is our best first . step Tuesday , June 05, 2012 Venus Transit Today You'll need a telescope and a hefty sun filter for it , but the Venus transit is happening today , starting at 3 PM on the west coast and lasting 6 hours , so well after sundown for all you west-coasters . If you're in Hawaii , the view should be better . As of this posting , the event has already . begun posted by bill at 4:31 PM 1 : Comments Anonymous said . nice posting thanks for sharing June 05, 2012 5:52 PM Post a Comment Links to this : post See links to this post posted by Create a Link About Me : Name bill : Location Hollister , California , United States My primary job is working

  • Space Elevator conference registration now open!

    Updated: 2012-06-03 04:54:58
    Registration is now open to attend the 2012 Space Elevator Conference.  Register prior to July 9th to take advantage of the “Early Bird Special” pricing! As noted earlier, the conference this year will be held from August 25th through the 27th at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, the first time in this venue and the [...]

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