Meteorite collecting appears to have a long, long tradition: Confirmed: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Was Made From Meteorites – Popular Science
Barraging ancient beads with tests tells archaeologists that jewelry came from space-rocks–and that iron-working was an older job than we thought.
In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:
Download these within the next week or so. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.
See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.
Here is the August episode in our series of Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows with Amanda Bush . The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com.
In this show, Amanda talks about the following :
00:56 — 02:41 Curiosity celebrates a year on Mars
02:42 — 03:33 Japanese cargo ship reaches the ISS
03:34 — 04:38 Commercial Crew Program Update
04:39 — 07:13 Vertical is in (V-TOLs)
Kristian von Bengtson at Copenhagen Suborbitals is posting updates on the work with Cameron Smith and John Haslett, who are visiting from the US, on space suit development and the design of the interior of the CS capsule:
Finally working real spacesuits at Copenhagen Suborbitals.
From left: John Haslett, Peter Madsen, Kristian von Bengtson
and Cameron Smith. Image: Jesper Jev Olsen
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A selection of space policy related items
In this video essay from Spacevidcast, Cariann Higginbotham responds to the question, “What happens when unregulated companies start going into space?”
