Editor’s note: There is a press conference underway right now from NASA JSC regarding Expedition 16. A few minutes ago I heard several instances of NASAese – i.e. NASA people […]
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Arthur C Clarke: 90 Orbits And Counting
Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s 90th Birthday Message“Hello! This is Arthur Clarke, speaking to you from my home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are […]
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Video: What if Von Braun REALLY had his way – in the 1950s?
Editor’s note: Imagine if Werner Von Braun’s intial concepts for the exploration of the Moon and Mars actually happened – just as Chesley Bonestell depicted them in Collier’s Magazine half […]
Posted inCommercialization
Another High Power Lunar X Prize Team is Forming
Dr. William ‘Red’ Whittaker and Raytheon Company Collaborate to Pursue Google Lunar X Prize, Astrobotic Technology“Astrobotic is planning for Raytheon to begin work on a contract basis with the scope […]
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Boeing wins NASA Ares I Instrument Unit Avionics Competition
Boeing Selected to Build Instrument Unit Avionics for NASA’s Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle, Boeing“The Boeing Company has been awarded an initial NASA contract valued at approximately $265 million to […]
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Investing In Space Biz
Money In Space, Aviation Week“The third installment this year of the Space Investment Summit was held Dec. 5-6 in San Jose, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. It mixed […]
Posted inEarth Science
North American Impact Event Evidence in Ancient Bones
Great beasts peppered from space, BBC“Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. […]
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Today's Video: Hey, Is Cape Town a TAL Site?
Editor’s note: Some clever South Africans have depicted a shuttle landing – in the middle of Cape Town. Video below.
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Email Volleys and ECO Sensors
Internal NASA Emails Reveal Atlantis Safety Debate, Aviation Week“Internal NASA emails from the director of Shuttle Safety at the Johnson Space Center and the Shuttle Program Manager show how they […]
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Monster Mutant Spider at KSC
Editor’s note: A monstrous arachnid managed to get past NASA KSC’s crack security and crawl all over the shuttle before someone finally shooed it away. It took several minutes before […]