NASA Releases Report About Australia Balloon Mishap “A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful April 28 launch of a scientific balloon from Alice Springs, Australia, has released its report. The board was led by Michael L. Weiss of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The board’s report listed 25 proximate, intermediate and root causes related to insufficient risk analysis, contingency planning, personnel training, technical knowledge, government oversight and […]

Buzz Aldrin calls for NZ to help in Mars exploration, Stuff.co.nz “Moonwalk pioneer Buzz Aldrin says Australia and New Zealand should be part of an international coalition to explore and colonise Mars. International co-operation in space was very difficult and in many ways inefficient, the second man to walk on the moon said. “But I think if we can take the English-speaking people … we can have American science, technology […]