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26 Jan 2011
- 03:53 UTC Spaceports Roscosmos: Show us the money for Soyuz Virginia-based Space Adventures, which had announced the conclusion of an agreement with Russian Federal Space Agency and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the ...
- 03:41 UTC Cosmic Log Science shifting in 'Sputnik moment' President Barack Obama wasn't even born when the last "Sputnik moment" took place — and despite tonight's State of the Union declaration that another such turning point in science, technology ...
- 03:39 UTC Spaceports Stardust-Next: Closes on Temple-1 Comet
- 03:22 UTC NASA Administrator ... Thoughts on the President's State of the Union Address Tonight, President Obama delivered a powerful State of the Union message to the nation. His focus on innovation, education and building are the foundations for our future success as a ...
- 03:20 UTC Universe Today Rings on the Horizon The Cassini spacecraft has taken a some recent images of two of Saturn’s most notorious moons, where in both images the planet’s rings serve as a backdrop. Above, Enceladus stands ...
- 03:01 UTC NASA Hack Space Avatar: Your Virtual Self NSF Science Nation wth Miles O'Brien: Your avatar may be just a virtual identity, but it can also affect how you are in the real world. "In this world of ...
- 03:01 UTC NASA Hack Space Avatar: Your Virtual Self NSF Science Nation wth Miles O'Brien: Your avatar may be just a virtual identity, but it can also affect how you are in the real world. "In this world of ...
- 02:47 UTC Universe Today First Light for New Spectrograph From the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, saw “first light” ...
- 02:27 UTC astropixie australia day 2011 there are so many events happening today around sydney in honor of australia day that i just cant keep up. i managed to walk to the harbour to watch the ...
- 02:08 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com NASA Ames looking for solutions to internal mistrust and ... NASA Ames Research Center held an All Hands meeting last Wednesday, revealing a surprisingly honest assessment of its own weaknesses – both internally and within the the NASA family. The ...
- 01:48 UTC The Daily Galaxy The "Rare Earth" Theory: Human Logic and Math Says It's W... There is no hope of finding alien life in space because conditions on all other planets are too hostile, according to Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard/ Smith made ...
- 01:28 UTC The Daily Galaxy Massive Rogue Star Racing Through the Milky Way 'A massive star named Zeta Ophiuchi flung away from its former companion is racing through space dust, creating a brilliant bow shock, seen above as a yellow arc in this ...
- 01:23 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... NM spaceport construction continues The main terminal building at Spaceport America is starting to get its big windows: I'm hanging glass today! - Spaceport_NM/yfrog.com.
- 01:21 UTC One Astronomer's No... Runaway Star! And no, not the spoiled-teenage-actor type… Instead, it’s this: WISE, or the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, captured a quickly moving star creating a bow-shock as it plows through interstellar gas ...
- 00:56 UTC The Daily Galaxy Hitchhiking the Milky Way: Will We Upload the Human Mind ... Athena Andreadis wrote an article on why the human mind can't be uploaded, explaining how any ghosts in the machine would just be copies. But we ask the more important ...
- 00:55 UTC SpaceUp What SpaceUp is All About CraftLass summed up the importance of SpaceUp (and other BarCamps) quite well today: Modern society is very disjointed. We like to divvy everyone up into little groups and then slice ...
- 00:42 UTC The Daily Galaxy Texting Ford Prefect: "Exploding Black Holes Generating M... Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the universe since its beginning - extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in ...
- 00:37 UTC NASA Watch NASA Mentioned in State of the Union - the NASA of 50 Yea... Obama to Declare 'The Rules Have Changed' (text of President's Speech), National Journal "Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite ...
- 00:04 UTC Cosmic Diary Virtual Telescope Live Observing Session - First Light Right now I am really excited, Gianluca Masi with his Virtual Telescope is sharing first light with his new set up for the Virtual Telescope, and there are some amazing ...
25 Jan 2011
- 23:34 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Delta IV Heavy vs Ram 3500 Heavy A reader points me to this cool macho showdown: Delta IV Heavy Rocket vs. 2011 Ram 3500 Heavy Duty Diesel - PickupTrucks.com News.
- 23:30 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... NASA budget prospects look chilly It appears that NASA's best case scenario is a budget frozen at $19B level for at least 5 years: Could NASA warm up to a budget freeze? - Space Politics.
- 23:22 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Masten engine test; Armadillo engine test Ian Kluft has posted photos of a Masten Space engine test today: Masten Space Systems static engine test firing - ian.kluft.com - Jan.25.11. === Ben Brockert posts a photo: Successfully ...
- 23:06 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Arctic Oscillation Chills United States, Warms Arctic This color-coded map shows temperature anomalies for the United States, Canada, eastern Siberia, and Greenland for January 9 to 16, 2011.
- 22:58 UTC Lunar Networks Terraced Craters in Aitken Crater Small crater within Aitken has a terraced and hummocky floor with boulders strewn about and no bright rays (though when seen in context, below, is situated within a larger debris ...
- 22:56 UTC SPACE.com Remembering Challenger: NASA's 1st Shuttle Tragedy See a photo chronicle of NASA's space shuttle Challenger accident on Jan. 28, 1986.
- 22:40 UTC The Daily Galaxy Will We Control Our Future Evolution? (Today's Most Popul... In the past decade, we’ve examined our Solar System’s orbit through the Milky Way to ask whether there may be clues to periodic mass extinctions on our planet. We've launched ...
- 22:36 UTC Parabolic Arc Review Commission Wants Data on Chinese Space Program U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Request for Proposals January 24th, 2011 Period of Proposal Submissions Ends: 5:30 PM, February 9th, 2011 The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (hereafter ...
- 22:35 UTC Young Astronomers The Star that’s in a Hurry NASA has just released a NASA has just released a magnificent image of the runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi. Zeta Ophiuchi Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team The star is located about 460 light ...
- 22:07 UTC About Astronomy and... NASA Successfully Deploys NanoSail If you've seen the movie WALL-E you may remember the scene where the spaceship lifts off from Earth, hurtling into space with WALL-E holding on for dear life. As the ...
- 21:41 UTC Supernova Condensat... A retrospective on discoveries Interestingly, last year saw a number of exciting announcements made of scientific discoveries. Discoveries which were highly relevant to my interests. However, much to my disappointment, it later became apparent ...
- 21:38 UTC Skymania News Fast-living star creates shockwaves A space telescope has photographed the dramatic shockwave caused by a runaway star ripping through the galaxy like a bullet. The massive star, bright enough to be easily spotted by ...
- 21:29 UTC Lowell Observatory ... This Week’s Lowell Observatory Gift Shop Items - Planisph... Identify constellations, study lunar features, and search for galaxies, star clusters and nebulae with our collection of affordable and easy-to-use maps and sky guides. You can purchase these in Lowell’s ...
- 21:20 UTC NASA Watch Delta IV Heavy Vs Ram 3500 Heavy Delta IV Heavy Rocket vs. 2011 Ram 3500 Heavy Duty Diesel (with very clever graphic comparison), Pickuptrucks.com "Think your Ford, GM or Ram heavy-duty pickup truck is the strongest rig ...
- 21:15 UTC Universe Today Was the Apollo Program an Anomaly? How often have you heard (or thought) the sentiment that all NASA really needs is a President who will issue a bold challenge for the space agency, like Kennedy did ...
- 21:12 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Eruption of Colima Volcano Evidence of four types of volcanic activity at Mexico’s Colima Volcano.
- 20:59 UTC Parabolic Arc Roscosmos: No Contracts Signed Yet With Space Adventures ... An interesting notice from the Roscosmos website: Space Adventures, which had announced the conclusion of an agreement with Russian Federal Space Agency and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to ...
- 20:52 UTC NASA Watch Technoarchaeology: Tiros-1 Technoarchaeology: Where is the True "First" Picture taken by Tiros 1? "The NASA Goddard Library has a rare and unique collection of 26 bound volumes of TIROS 1 photography prepared ...
- 20:51 UTC The American Associ... And Baby Makes... Our Assistant Director, Aaron Price, has had a heck of a year! Earlier this year he was made Assistant Director of the AAVSO. Later that year we celebrated his defending ...
- 20:33 UTC HobbySpace Blog Review: "Postcards from Mars" by Jim Bell As mentioned in the previous item, this month marks another amazing milestone in the saga of Opportunity and Spirit's exploration of Mars . The program goal was for the rovers ...
- 20:32 UTC Parabolic Arc Virginia Bill Would Direct Tax Revenues to Commercial Spa... Jack Kennedy informs me that there’s a move afoot in the Virginia Legislature to direct tax dollars generated by commercial human space entities in the state to support the Virginia ...
- 20:24 UTC Cosmic Log The scientific quest to print food Do you need to decorate a child's birthday cake, even though you have the drawing skills of an infant? No problem. Just get your hands on a 3-D printer, and ...
- 20:17 UTC Hayden Planetarium ... The Sky Reporter: February 2011 On Tuesday February 1st, the Sun is within boundaries of the constellation Capricornus. At the end of February our nearest star is in Aquarius. The daily duration of time the ...
- 20:13 UTC In the Dark Hard Decisions, Easy Targets Just back from a day trip to London – at the Institute of Physics to be precise – to wrap up the proceedings of this years protracted STFC Astronomy Grants ...
- 20:10 UTC Parabolic Arc Russia to Spend $6 Billion on New Spaceport, Rocket and H... Roscosmos Head Anatoly Perminov told the media that Russia will spend $6 billion through 2015 to build its new Vostochny spaceport and to develop replacements for the Soyuz rocket and ...
- 20:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Amateur astrologer discovers new constellation [This will, I hope, be my last post about astrology for a while. Until and unless, at least, some other nontroversy pops up.] I post a link to this article ...
- 19:58 UTC New Papyrus Phobos
- 19:41 UTC NASA Watch NASA's Stealth Technology Roadmap Meetings Keith's note: This Tweet by @NASA_Technology (NASA office of Chief Technologist) just appeared: "The NRC kicks off review of NASA's space tech roadmaps. Media Advisory: Future Tech for NASA Missions ...
- 19:26 UTC A Lab Aloft At the Edge of the Valley of Death Dr. Julie A. Robinson discusses the hazards that research discoveries must face while traversing the "valley of death" in an effort to yield valuable advances for human benefits.
- 19:09 UTC Exoplanetology Exodyssey By not posting my review of it last year, I have done great injustice to this excellent book entitled Exodyssey by Steambot Studio. Exodyssey is actually the first art book ...
- 19:06 UTC Parabolic Arc Video: Yuri Gagarin Documetary This is the first trailer of the Yuri Gagarin fan film produced by Soyuz Fan Film in association with Planet Gagarin Karpov. This fan film is scheduled to release on ...