Keith Cooper writes about artists like Chris Foss who create cover art and illustrations for sci-fi and non-fiction space books that have a far bigger and more lasting impact than the books themselves: Painting the Future – Interstellarindex.
He notes that noted artists Adrian Mann, Jon Lomberg, and David A. Hardy work with the Interstellarindex project.
Here’s the latest in a series of posts at Kentucky Space on progress with the KySat-2 nanosat project: “K2 Tuesdays” – Meeting Mission Requirements.
In this Planetary Society hangout on January 17th, “Dr. Joel Hurowitz from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory joins Emily Lakdawalla […] to talk about Curiosity’s drilling and sampling system.”
http://youtu.be/uVNOKsPrzJY
ESA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which runs several space missions including the Messenger probe now orbiting Mercury) are proposing a joint experiment to test impact deflection of an asteroid. A JHU-APL spacecraft would ram into an asteroid while an ESA spacecraft would monitor the impact and its effects on the object.
The lifetime of Kepler, the great exoplanet finding machine, may be cut prematurely short if efforts to save a balky reaction wheel fall short:
