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Blog: How Much is an Astronaut’s Life Worth?
Reason Magazine came out with an entire space issue last month and if you haven’t check it out but are interested in space, which you know you are if you’re reading this, then you really should check...
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Courtesy of one of the NASA Twitter feeds, I found a video with NASA earth scientist Melissa Dawson, who apparently came up with the process of making all those cool time lapse videos making their way...
View ArticleBlog: The Backside of the Moon
Chalk this one up as a NASA project that gives me a big case of the “ehhhh’s”. NASA launched a pair of probes to fly around the moon to map its gravity changes from things like mountains and whatever’s...
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Blog: The Little Rovers That Could
Yesterday, I wrote about a NASA mission that was probably one of the most boring I’ve ever heard of. Today, I wanted to write about one of the best: The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Did you...
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Blog: The Future of the Spacesuit
Here’s something that doesn’t get as much discussion as it probably should. With almost everyone agreed that Mars is the next stop for human exploration, what will the space suit of the future look...
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Blog: Old Space Station Plans
So… Wired is again becoming one of my favorite sites. They’ve really been on the ball with a lot of facinating articles about NASA and science. Yesterday was no different. In an article titled “Space...
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Blog: Space Junk – Or The Story of the Disposable Space Station
There was a story over the weekend on NPR about the astronauts aboard the International Space Station having to head for the escape pods in case a piece of floating Russian space junk were to hit it....
View ArticleBlog: Why NASA’s Victory Lap Should Be A Tour of Shame
It’s been in the news all week about the Space Shuttles being delivered by NASA to various museums around the country. Next week, New York will be getting the Enterprise, which was just yanked out of...
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Blog: New Bill To Reform NASA Funding
I know, I know, how lame it is to report on a new bill aimed at reforming NASA. But this one might actually be a good thing. To set it up, I’d like to tell you about this Tom Sachs show my girlfriend,...
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Blog: Langrange Point Outpost?
Okay… now this is cool, considering what I wrote about two days ago. According to the Orlando Sentinel, NASA is proposing building a staging outpost at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 2. From the...
View ArticleBlog: More On Russia’s Buran Space Shuttle
One of my favorite topics was the subject of an article today on Ars Technica: the Buran, the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s space shuttle. It details the politics of how the Buran came into being,...
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Blog: A Rescue Plan for Columbia
title=”Ars – Columbia Rescue Plan”>Ars Technica today published a story about the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, creatively called CAI and, as the article says, rhyming with “Gabe”....
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Blog: NASA’s Proposed Z-2 Spacesuit
Tragically, I only just found out about this through Wired today but it’s still pretty interesting. Apparently, NASA has been redesigning the spacesuit, looking at making one that will function on...
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Blog: A Russian Redesigns NASA’s Logo
Wired has an article explaining with some amount of irony that a Russian has offered up a redesign of NASA’s classic logos. Apparently, Max Lapteff has decided that the two logos NASA has switched...
View ArticleBlog: People Will Die For Space Tourism… And That’s Okay
I wanted to write about this last week (the week before?) when it originally happened because, between the Antares rocked explosion and the Virgin Galactic debacle, it was a rough week for private...
View ArticleThe Martian
As I was at the airport on my way out for my Christmas holiday, I stopped in the book store looking for the usual crap I like I read when on vacation. Well… crap may be too harsh. But it’s not exactly...
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