Aug 13 2007
NASA deciding whether Endeavour crew needs to repair gouge:
…a nine-centimetre-long gouge the shuttle suffered during its launch last week penetrates all the way through thermal tiles on its belly.
Engineers are trying to determine whether the area can withstand the searing heat of atmospheric re-entry at the end of the flight.
Scary. I can imagine the [...]
Aug 01 2007
Maybe. Probably. We may find out soon: NASA Probe to Explore Martian Arctic:
A three-legged NASA spacecraft with a long arm for digging trenches is going to the Martian north pole to study if the environment is favorable for primitive life.
The machine can’t detect life; it’s checking to see if the ground has organics [...]
Jun 10 2007
I’ve posted about this before and will probably do so in the future: NASA TV.
They have cameras all over the space shuttle, interior and exterior. You can watch the astronauts work, you can see views of the earth — all kinds of cool stuff. The live view from the space shuttle as it was taking [...]
Jul 19 2006
Space wallpaper (www.spacewallpapers.net) offers lots of free images that you can use for your computer’s desktop background (i.e. wallpaper), all of them with a space theme, of course. I love that stuff.
The space wallpapers are created from NASA, ESA and NOAO/AURA images as well as from contributions from astro-photographers and space artists around the [...]
Jul 13 2005
This is very cool. I’m watching NASA TV on my laptop as I write this. The cameras are inside the space shuttle. I can see the astronauts. Not much going on right now, but things should get interesting once the shuttle takes off in a couple hours.
With a 12-day mission that includes three spacewalks, NASA [...]
Jul 04 2005
Russian astrologist sues NASA over comet crash:
A Russian astrologist who says NASA has altered her horoscope by crashing a spacecraft into a comet is suing the U.S. space agency for damages of $300 million…
“It is obvious that elements of the comet’s orbit, and correspondingly the ephemeris, will change after the explosion, which interferes with my [...]
Mar 22 2005
The Old Negro Space Program is a 10-minute mockumentary about black astronauts in the 50s and 60s. I laughed all the way through it.
(I found it through the J-Walk Blog this morning just before it went down.)
Dec 13 2004
Your guide to a “gem” of a meteor show:
What could be the best meteor display of the year is scheduled to reach its peak on Monday night.
Skywatchers with dark skies away from city lights could see one or two meteors every minute during the Geminid meteor shower. The greatest activity is expected to be visible [...]
