The theme of the latest TMRO/Spacevidcast show was “Do you ever try to be a ‘Space Evangelist’ to your friends and family?” : Promoting the cosmos to family and friends – TMRO The topic was inspired by the discussion at reddit.com/r/spacex/
Archive for June, 2014
Mars One releases info on their unmanned Mars Lander mission plans: Mars One announces Request for Proposals for 2018 Mars Lander payloads
The Space Show this week
The guests and topics for The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, June 30, 2014: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): DR. DOUG PLATA returns with more on his Lunar Cots & cislunar work, including ISDC presentations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Selmesfilms has posted a new video: ORBIT is ready for launch. Here our latest video compiled from more than 10GB of International Space Station footage. I recommend you watch this on the biggest screen possible in HD with the lights off […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Doug Clyde sent me a message about his new space music album: I’m a New Age Music Artist who records under the name ALBEDO. I just launched a campaign for my next album “Space Probes” to be released in August. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
PhotosToSpace.com hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
The second volume William H. Patterson’s official biography of Robert A. Heinlein is now Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 2: The Man Who Learned Better, 1948-1988. Here are two reviews: ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the latest update on activities aboard the International Space Station: The US loss to Germany in the World Cup led to some loss of hair on the ISS:
Don’t blame David Bowie for the removal from Youtube of the video of Chris Hadfield performing the song Space Oddity on the International Space Station : David Bowie Erroneously Blamed for Astronaut’s ‘Space Oddity’ Video Takedown – ultimateclassicrock.com
Here’s an interesting display of the nearly 1800 confirmed exoplanets on a plot of the distance from the Sun versus how much light energy the planet gets from its star (a value of 1.0 would equal the sun’s flux reaching earth): 4D-Exoplanets: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest episode of The Virtual SpaceTV 3D show with Amanda Bush. The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com. In this show, Amanda Bush talks about the following topics: 01:27 – 04:32 A better Dragon on Stage 04:33 – 06:09 Virgin […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted recently about the rocket week at NASA Wallops involving over 60 college students and faculty who were learning to build and prepare science payloads for rocket flights. Today their experiments flew successfully on a sounding rocket. There will be another […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On June 30th it will be 10 years since the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, built by a US/Europe collaboration, went into orbit around Saturn. Huygens successfully landed on the moon Titan in 2005 and Cassini has continued to provide tremendous information and imagery of Saturn, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement about the Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M): Student seek to make history with Time Capsule to Mars Project WASHINGTON–At a press conference Monday, Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M), a project of Explore Mars, officially launched the largest crowdfunding campaign in history to realize […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is making progress towards resurrecting the International Cometary Explorer from its decades long hiatus in orbit around the sun. (See previous posts on the ISEE-3 reboot such as here and here.) Here is the news from yesterday: ISEE-3 Status 24 June 2014: We […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from Planetary Resource and Zooniverse: PLANETARY RESOURCES AND ZOONIVERSE LAUNCH ASTEROID ZOO, A CITIZEN SCIENCE ASTEROID CHALLENGE Asteroid Zoo Engages Public in Search for Near Earth Asteroids that are Potentially Hazardous, Resource Rich or Possible Human Destinations Redmond, Washington – June […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Karen Cumming is a journalist and a candidate for selection by the Mars One program that hopes to put a settlement on the Red Planet. Here she gives an entertaining talk at the ideascity event held in Toronto recently: Update: Here is the latest newsletter […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A great looking model of the Hubble telescope is on display at LEGO Ideas – The Hubble Space Telescope. The site will consider turning a scratch built model like this into a production product if there is enough interest shown.
The NextBigFuture blog hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
A brief review of what the Curiosity rover has accomplished during its first full Martian year (687 earth days or 1.88 earth years) on the Red Planet: NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year with Mission Successes – Mars Science Laboratory Here’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…