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18 Jun 2013
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace Retro Space Images: Ride, Sally Ride Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Flight Suit Attitude — Thirty years ago today, astronaut Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space. Ride was launched aboard Space ...
- 08:43 UTC Astromick IC1318 - The Gamma Cygni Nebula, Crescent Nebula - Starle... IC1318 - The Gamma Cygni Nebula, Crescent Nebula - Starless, a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.
- 08:30 UTC Astroblog The Sky This Week - Thursday June 20 to Thursday June 27 Earth is at solstice on Friday June 21. The Full Moon is Sunday June 23. At this time it will be closer to Earth than any other time this year ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2013-06-17 SA: Brent SO: Siphelo Others: Michael, Keith for a bit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A long productive night with somewhat worse seeing than last night. Data taken for the following programs: ...
- 06:07 UTC astropixie frequency and vibration visualized nikola tesla said "if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." the video below shows the "chladni plate experiment" which ...
- 04:53 UTC Phil's Astronomy Bl... Been Busy I've given the astrophotography and astronomy a little bit of a break for a while. Work and family commitments have kept me away from the dark skies for quite some ...
- 04:42 UTC wanderingspace Planetfall Having followed the activities of a small army of freelance space imagers that lurk in various places on the internet for about 10 years now — it is truly unusual ...
- 04:38 UTC Universe Today NASA Names First Astronaut Class for Deep Space Explorati... On Monday, NASA introduced eight new astronaut candidates – four women and four men – who will “help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations ...
- 04:27 UTC Space Safety Magazi... Sally Ride and Valentina Tereshkova: Changing the Course ... Source: NASA This week marks the anniversary of two significant events in the history of space exploration–the flight of Valentina Tereshkova 50 years ago on June 16 and of Sally ...
- 04:06 UTC Space Safety Magazi... Mystery of Yuri Gagarin’s Death Solved Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space on April 12, 1961 when he road Vostok 1 into history. Gagarin became an instant celebrity, and is still hailed ...
- 04:00 UTC The Original Rocket... Big dose of retro I have been preoccupied with my Flickr archive but have accumulated a few interesting retro photos. Most came from the H.A.M.B. and I don't remember the rest.First, a couple of ...
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... George Levin, Former ASEB Director and Former NASA Offici... George M. Levin, who spent 35 years at NASA before joining the National Research Council (NRC) as Director of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB), died yesterday after a ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Water Storage Maps Show Improvement At the surface, moisture is more abundant than in 2012. But time will tell if it seeps down to restore aquifers parched by drought.
- 03:58 UTC The Planetary Socie... Favorite space images: "Many Worlds" For this evening's Planetary Radio Live event, Mat Kaplan asked me to do a presentation of some favorite space images. I told him that picking favorite space images is like ...
- 03:49 UTC Astroblog The "Super Moon" of June 23, 2013 The Full Moon is Sunday June 23 in Australia. At this time the Moon will be at perigee, when it is closest to the Earth. This is the closest perigee ...
- 03:41 UTC Lunar Update Who Owns The Future? I have been off the air of recent with typing still a problem for the right hand/arm but saw this title mentioned in a PBS Newshour TV interview with Jaron ...
- 03:37 UTC To the Moon, Mars a... Who Owns The Future I have been off the air of recent with typing still a problem for the right hand/arm but saw this title mentioned in a PBS Newshour TV interview with Jaron ...
- 03:15 UTC Parabolic Arc Planetary Resources Launches Arkyd T-shirt Design Contest... SYDNEY, June 17th 2013 (Freelancer.com PR) – High value contests on Freelancer.com continue to achieve out of this world results for businesses. Planetary Resources, a company dedicated to space exploration ...
- 03:12 UTC Lights in the Dark What Happens Around a Hungry Black Hole? While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics (and it’s said that at the very heart ...
- 03:01 UTC Dear Astronomer The Cosmic Ray Show: Episode 10 – With Phil Plait, Geoff ... Our first season of The Cosmic Ray Show ends with a bang! The hour-long season finale features guests Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy Blog) and Geoff Notkin (Meteorite Men), and music ...
- 02:57 UTC Universe Today Final Construction Starts for Europe’s 2016 Methane Sniff... Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific inquiries of our time. Europe and Russia have teamed up ...
- 02:53 UTC Parabolic Arc Aerojet President: NK-33 Engines Can Be Put Back into Pro... Space News is quoting Aerojet Rocketdyne President Warren Boley as saying the engine that powers Orbital Sciences Corporation’s new Antares rocket can be put back into production at a reasonable ...
- 02:41 UTC Universe Today What Happens Around a Hungry Black Hole? While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics (and it’s said that at the very heart ...
- 02:38 UTC Tychogirl She progressed to rockets A page of the 1893 book “Women wealth-winners, or, How women can earn money,” by Edna C. Jackson redacted into a poem. I chose to redact using lipstick (Studio Gear’s ...
- 02:32 UTC ABC Herschel deep-space telescope shuts down END OF AN ERA: The deep-space telescope Herschel has taken its final bow, climaxing a successful four-year mission to observe the birth of stars and galaxies.
- 01:26 UTC Astronaut for Hire NASA Selects 2013 Astronaut Candidates NASA announced the 2013 Class of Astronaut Candidates (ASCAN's) today. I want to extend a hearty congratulations to them all and wish them well in the intensive training that lies ...
- 01:10 UTC Aviation Week: On S... ESA's Orion Service Module On A Diet The European Space Agency (ESA) and its industrial partners need to reduce the weight of a service module they are developing to fly on NASA's Orion multipurpose crew exploration vehicle ...
- 01:03 UTC astrobites Recap of the IAU Planet Formation Symposium Highlights from the International Astronomical Union Symposium on "Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems". From June 2nd to 7th, I attended the International Astronomical Union (IAU) symposium in ...
- 00:45 UTC Spaceports NASA Names Eight New Astronaut Candidates NASA has eight new astronauts -- its first new batch in four years. Monday's announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American ...
- 00:30 UTC Starts With A Bang! Messier Monday: Messier’s First Globular Cluster, M2 “God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” -Bill Watterson Welcome back to ...
- 00:08 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Pew! Pew! Curiosity Laser-Blasts Mars Rock Continuing its campaign of Mars domination, Curiosity is blasting holes into Mars rocks with its laser -- for SCIENCE! Continue reading →
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Shining a light on cool pools of gas in the galaxy Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:6/18/2013
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy.com News NASA prepares for launch of next solar satellite Astronomy Magazine News Article - Released:6/18/2013
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Mount Shasta's Lemuria And Telos: Origins - Part 2 Today in Mount Shasta there is less sensationalism surrounding Lemuria than there has been in previous decades, but much is made of the subterranean city of 'Telos', a kind of ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Is This What Humans Will Look Like in 100,000 Years From ... Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago and underwent many significant changes like behavior and appearance, during this long and dramatic period of time...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Warm Ocean Is Melting Antarctica From The Bottom Up A year ago, we informed that very rapid climate changes take place on Antarctica and Antarctic ice shelves are breaking up fast. In another article we informed that the huge ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Huge NuSTAR X-Ray Telescope Makes High-Quality Observatio... NuSTAR studies the most energetic phenomena in the universe making high-quality observations of a gamma-ray burst in high-energy X-rays. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Supercomputer Simulation Helped To Explain Decades Of Bla... Now, a new study conducted by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.
- 00:00 UTC Secure World Founda... SWF Actively Participates in the 56th Session of the UN C... The fifty sixth session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was held from 12-21 June 2013 at the United Nation Office in Vienna. As every year ...
17 Jun 2013
- 23:59 UTC The Planetary Socie... SOLD OUT: Cosmic Concert Webcast Tonight! We've got a full house for this evening's Planetary Radio Live, but you can watch the live webcast with singer/songwriter Peter Mayer and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
- 23:58 UTC NASA Watch Women in Space (Part One) Women in Space Part One, Female Firsts in Flight for Space Exploration and Research, NASA Blog - A Lab Aloft (International Space Station Research) "In today's A Lab Aloft, guest ...
- 23:30 UTC Sydney Observatory Harry spies activity in the Sun’s polar crown The ejection of a filament near the south pole of the Sun on the morning of Sunday 16 June 2013 (Australian time). Sketch and copyright Harry Roberts ©, all rights ...
- 23:10 UTC Space Safety Magazi... ExoMars Enters Final Phase of Construction ESA’s ExoMars program has entered the final stage of construction by signing a hardware contract with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air and Space show, on June 17th. “The ...
- 23:00 UTC Spudis Lunar Resour... China in Space: A Threat or Not? Readers would be hard pressed to find a more blasé attitude towards China’s space program than the current “nothing-to-be-alarmed-about-here-folks” op-ed column by John Kelly recently published in Florida Today. In ...
- 22:56 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Selects 8 New Astronaut Candidates HOUSTON (NASA PR) – After an extensive year-and-a-half search, NASA has a new group of potential astronauts who will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to ...
- 22:42 UTC The Original Rocket... Boeing X-51A WaveRider photo Boeing X-51A WaveRider sets record with successful 4th flight, a photo by The Boeing Company on Flickr.
- 22:35 UTC The Mars Society French Mars Society Donates $6000 to MA365, Names Generat... Association Planète Mars, the French chapter of the Mars Society, has donated $6,000 to help fund the Mars Arctic 365 (MA365) mission. Accordingly, the chapter was given the right to ...
- 22:31 UTC Parabolic Arc Virgin Galactic Announces 600th Ticketholder for SpaceShi... LONDON (VIRGIN GALACTIC PR) – Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group and Virgin Galactic, announced Monday, June 17, that the company’s 600th Future Astronaut is Marsha Waters, the ...
- 22:22 UTC moonandback Swiss Space Systems and Thales Alenia Form New Partnershi... Plan for Suborbital Space Passenger System LE BOURGET, Switzerland — Swiss Space Systems (S3), the read more » Plan for Suborbital Space Passenger System LE BOURGET, Switzerland — Swiss Space ...
- 21:59 UTC The Original Rocket... Video of the Waverider scramjet's last flight "The fourth and final flight of the Boeing X-51A Waverider test program has accomplished a breakthrough in the development of flight reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean May 1. ...