The Space Show posts audio and video recordings of a space panel discussion event held on Friday, March 22nd at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana: Rocky Mtn. College Astronaut Panel 2, Friday Afternoon, 3-22-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog The panel included […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS. ANS 090 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – March 30, 2013: * Schedule of AMSAT Activities at Dayton […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spacevidcast posts the latest live episode, which included guest Andrew Nelson from XCOR Aerospace who talked about the tests of their piston rocket engine, the Lynx suborbital spaceplane and other topics: XCOR’s new Piston Rocket Engine – 6.09 – Spacevidcast ************************** Shop […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The PBS Nova science program has this episode about the February 15th meteor event over Chelyabinsk, Russia: Video: Meteor Strike | Watch NOVA Online | PBS Video – Mar.27.13 Watch Meteor Strike on PBS. See more from NOVA.
Perhaps we will find out next week if any of the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams actually have the funding to buy a rocket ride to the Moon; time is getting short to get there in time : GLXP Update: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman spoke on the John Batchelor Show on the Thursday program about the following topics: 1. Three astronauts on the way to ISS. 2. Musk confirms that SpaceX will do tests of a powered return of its first stage […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That big odd looking rock on the front porch might be valuable meteorite: Asteroid used as ham press by Spanish farmer worth $5.3 million – NY Daily News
Jeff Foust discusses the effects of sequestration on NASA’s budget, and the commercial crew program in particular : Sequestration’s effects on commercial crew, and planning for FY14 – Space Politics === Bill Nye, aka the Science Guy and and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of NASA’s ScienceCasts program reports on ozone in the atmosphere and about the SAGE III instrument that will be placed on the ISS to “monitor Earth’s protective ozone shell with greater depth and precision than ever before”.
Andrew Bodrov has created a super high-res panorama of Mars using a series of images from the Curiosity rover: 4-Billion-Pixel Panorama From Curiosity Rover Brings Mars to Your Computer Screen – Wired Science/Wired.com Mars Gigapixel Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Estonian Student Satellite ESTCube-1 will test a new type of conducting space tether to test the electric solar wind sail concept (e-Sail) developed by Pekka Janhunen of Finland: The European Space Agency Has Made A Snap-Proof Super-Thin Space Tether […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of the Planetary Society‘s Weekly Hangout discussed reports from the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference:
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pdf) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Skylab II, Making a Deep Space Habitat from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a video of actor Seth Green describing his weightless adventures on a Zero G parabolic flight (via Parabolic Arc)
Two items about the NASA budget situation Science and sequestration in context – Behind The Black What’s Going On with NASA Education and Public Outreach? – The Planetary Society === A couple of recent items by Jeff Foust dealing with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Copenhagen Suborbitals gives a briefing on the development of the turbopump for their liquid fueled engine: How to Build a Rocket Turbo Pump – Wired Science/Wired.com
The National Space Society is sponsoring a student art contest: NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Student Art Contest « National Space Society Blog NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Art Contest NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Student Art Contest O’Neill Cylinder […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman on the Space Show on Tuesday discussed a range of recent space news, rocket company updates, and more: Robert (Bob) Zimmerman, Tuesday, 3-26-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog. And on the John Batchelor radio program on Tuesday, he talked about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The space memorabilia auction at Bonhams yesterday (see earlier posts here, here and here) seems to have done fairly well: Apollo 13 Souvenir Rakes In $84,100 in Space History Auction – Space.com === An separate memorabilia auction in Paris on Tuesday […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A message about a new game for iPad, Android and Kindle.: 200 CLICKS UP… 17,000 MILES PER HOUR LEO – LowEarthOrbit is a prerequisite for wannabe space pilots, a place where the rules work differently than here on Earth. Don’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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