Artist Trevor Paglen is designing a work of art that will go into orbit. The Orbital Reflector will launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the spring of 2018. In collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2017
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Here is the Planetary Society‘s latest Planetary Post video with Robert Picardo: From the caption: William Shatner sends a message to Voyager 1, Cassini crashes into Saturn, asteroid-seeking OSIRIS-REx gets a gravity assist, and The Planetary Society’s citizen-funded solar sailing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elon Musk gave a talk today at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017) in Adelaide, Australia in which he described the design of a new SpaceX rocket system, informally called the BFR (e.g. “Big Freaking Rocket”). The company will soon start building the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA is sponsoring a space art contest for kids ages 4-12 on the theme of astronauts flying on commercial crew vehicles to the ISS: Commercial Crew 2018 Calendar Artwork Contest | NASA NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is partnering with private companies […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: A recent conversation between ISS crew members and students gathered at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.: ====
Boeing is sponsoring the GoFly Prize We’re calling on all inventors and doers to make human flight a reality by building the world’s first personal flying device for anyone, anywhere. Over the next two years, teams will compete to win $2,000,000 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from the CosmoQuest public participation in space exploration initiative: Public Invited to Test New Tool to Study Earth using Photos Taken by International Space Station Astronauts CosmoQuest’s Image Detective, a NASA-funded citizen science project, invites the public to identify Earth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula The spectacular planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles, lit up in glorious pinks and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Indian musician Ram Sampath has composed a song dedicated to the Team Indus lunar lander project. The song is performed by Sona Mohapatra and the band Sanam. Read the background story to the TeamIndus anthem. Team Indus is a finalist in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv live program episode is now available on line: Stories from a Skylab Astronaut – Orbit 10.35 – TMRO NASA Astronaut and Skylab 4 commander Jerry Carr joins us this week to talk about his experiences in the Stories […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) funds studies into all sorts of cool and often “crazy” ideas that just might work. This week (Mon-Wed) at the NIAC Symposium in Denver, Colorado, leaders of funded project will give updates on their studies. The presentations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: Open Lines for Monday | Monday 25 – Sep 20170 7:00 pm PT (10:00 pm ET) Dr. David Livingston hosts an Open Lines show with “The topics you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Early Sunday morning, United Launch Alliance sent the US spysat NROL-42 into orbit with an Atlas V rocket blasting off from Vandenberg AFB in California. Here is a nice photo taken during the launch by Anthony Galván III: Here is a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Styx in June released The Mission, their 15th studio album since the progressive rock band started out in the early 1970s. The concept album depicts the first human mission to Mars. [Tommy Shaw]’s cosmos-themed language reflects the story line that he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mission Juno spacecraft recently completed its 8th low pass over the clouds of Jupiter. Images from Perijove 08 can be found on the JunoCam site, including images that have been enhanced by amateur astro-imaging whizzes. This video of enhanced imagery from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Space to Ground weekly report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: Here is a longer video showing the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle departing from the ISS last Sunday: US astronaut Mark Vande […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hubble telescope spots an unusual pair of asteroids that orbit each other and also emit water vapor like the coma and tail of a comet: Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar System With the help of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from the ESO (European Southern Observatory) Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Evolving Planet hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
JP Aerospace flew a bouquet of flowers and a bonsai tree to the edge of space in 2014: This art installation saw flowers being launched into the stratosphere above Nevada – Lonely Planet – A video about the EXOBIOTANICA project: === A […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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