No glory: NASA’s Glory satellite crashes in Pacific
NASA blames nosecone for failure. Details here.
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Searching for life on Mars: Planning the next mission
(Ars Technica) “Each year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) seems to include at least one session on the search for ET. This year was no exception, with some...
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Happy 80th birthday, Spock
Photo: Kelly Walker (via Wikimedia Commons) On March 26, 1931, in Boston, Leonard Nimoy was born. I’m asked all of the time what propelled my interest in rocketry and aerospace. My earliest...
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First ever close-up pictures of the planet Mercury. Photos taken by NASA’s...
The photos include the first color close-ups of the planet. There have been “fly by” missions of the tiny planet. But this is the first long-term, planet-orbiting mission. The goal is to examine the...
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Space junk forces astronauts to take shelter in Russian spaceships
(Space.com) “A piece of space junk zoomed uncomfortably close by the International Space Station today (June 28), so close that the outpost’s six-man crew had to take shelter in Russian space capsules...
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Shuttle astronauts to try a recycling bag that makes a sports drink from urine
Even though tomorrow’s launch of the Space Shuttle marks the end of this venerable space-launch system, NASA still has a few innovations up its sleeve — including a bag designed to turn astronaut urine...
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NASA’s 30-year Space Shuttle history in 15 glorious photos
Click through the following slide show of 15 stunning Space Shuttle images: http://huff.to/o7i0zG
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Take a peek at NASA’s next Mars rover. It’s the size of a Mini Cooper!
Look out, Mars. Here comes one bad-ass dune buggy. If all goes as planned, the Mars Sciences Laboratory (MSL) — nicknamed “Curiosity” — will blast off to Mars early this winter. It’s about the size...
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NASA’s not dead: Space agency looks to send astronauts to an asteroid
The Space Shuttle program may be over, but NASA is looking to spread its wings in other high-flying missions. For instance, NASA has a presidential mandate to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 — a...
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Bummer: Scientists prove time travel impossible
Physicists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology reaffirmed Einstein’s position that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light — thus squashing hopes that time travel and other...
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Russia plans to dump International Space Station in ocean
According to published reports, in nine years Russia intends to de-orbit and dump the ISS into the Pacific Ocean in nine years. Other ISS partners, however, have different intentions. The consortium...
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SpaceX plans to launch supply rocket to International Space Station
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), a leading private aerospace firm founded by Elon Musk (co-founder of PayPal), intends to fly its Dragon capsule via the company’s Falcon launch...
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Anti-gravity at last? Ask this mouse.
One of my readers asked me to research something he spotted a couple of years ago: a mouse suspended in mid air without any perceivable support mechanisms. Yes, it did occur. It was a rather unique...
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LOOK HERE NOW: Watch the Perseids Meteor Shower — LIVE via the Web
Visit the following link http://1.usa.gov/qjThYb to watch the Perseids meteor shower from the comfort of your computer. You’ll connect to NASA’s Web cameras. Tonight (Friday, August 12th into...
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Russia and Europe to send first humans to Mars?
Many people believe that the first human to step foot on Mars will be from the U.S. Well, think again. Discovery published today an interesting article (“Russia and Europe to Send Man to Mars?”) that...
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A unique view of the Earth and moon, from six million miles away
Less than a month into its five-year journey to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this nifty picture of the Earth and moon, as part of the vehicle’s “JunoCam” checkout procedures. The Earth is the...
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AEROSPACE NEWS: NASA to spend $1.6 billion on private Space Taxis
NASA has introduced a plan to pay private aerospace companies $1.6 billion to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). A variety of new commercial aerospace companies...
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The nuclear option: NASA’s new Mars rover to run on radioactive power
As I reported in an earlier post, NASA’s Curiosity rover is about twice as long and about five times heavier than the most recent Opportunity and Spirit rovers. But what’s really unique is that it’s...
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Shirt-sleeve Earth-like planet discovered: Kepler-22b
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered an Earth-like planet with balmy 70-degree temperatures: “Kepler-22b”. The plant is 2.4 times the diameter of Earth, and orbits its sun in 290 days. But we won’t...
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Space junk forces astronauts into escape capsules on International Space...
(CNN) — A piece of a debris from a Russian Cosmos satellite passed close enough to the International Space Station on Saturday that its crew was ordered into escape capsules as a precaution, NASA said....
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