Some books to interest: ** How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight by Julian Gutherie I quite enjoyed this history of the Ansari XPRIZE, which was won by Burt Rutan‘s team in October of 2004 after completing two flights to suborbital space by the SpaceShipOne (SS1) … Continue reading Books: “How to Make a Spaceship” + “Martians Abroad” + “Opening the High Frontier”→
The most recent TMRO.tv program is now available on line: Create your own Martian Garden – TMRO We are joined by Mark Cusimano from The Martian Garden — We discuss what Martian Regolith is and how you can use simulated Martian Regolith to create your own Mars garden! News topics discusses: * Soyuz MS-02 suffers anomaly … Continue reading Videos: TMRO 9.30 – Create your own Martian Garden + TMRO Spacepod shorts→
The NASA briefing today about a “Mars Mystery” will present evidence for seasonal flows of liquid water, heavily salted with perchlorates that raise the boiling temperature, down the slopes of some hills on the Martian surface. They do not see the water directly but instead see traces of the flows in streaks down the hills. Spectroscopic examination of the … Continue reading Researchers see evidence for liquid water flows on Martian surface→
The latest TMRO program is now available on line: Martian Cities – TMRO This week we take a look at what our future Martian cities will look like once we are past the pilgrim stage and on to settlement. What will transport between cities be? What will the structures look like? How will we live off-planet … Continue reading Video: TMRO 8.05 – Martian Cities→
Curiosity zaps a rock with its laser and gets a brief flash: NASA Rover’s Images Show Laser Flash on Martian Rock Flashes appear on a baseball-size Martian rock in a series of images taken Saturday, July 12 by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the arm of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. The flashes … Continue reading Curiosity zaps Martian rocks with laser→