Mars One update

Mars One posts the December issue of their newsletter : Lights, camera…action! The Mars One round 2 candidate interviews are just around the corner –

Lights, camera…action! These are very exciting times for the candidates due to the fact that the Mars One round 2 candidate interviews are just around the corner. From the original 202,586 applicants, only 663 remaining candidates will be interviewed. This interview is the next step in narrowing down the list of possible candidates flying to Mars!

Update: A recent episode of The Space Show discussed a student simulation of the Mars One plan: MIT Students Analysis of the Mars One Mission Plan, Tuesday, 11-25-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog –

Listen to the audio (mp3).

Video: “Wanderers”

A marvelous acclamation of the pull of wanderlust :

Each of the places depicted in Wanderers is an actual place in our solar system. When real photos or map data was available, Wernquist used them to guide his digital recreations. You can read about each of the places and their scientific basis in an accompanying gallery of stills:leaving our home planet, surfing the rings of Saturn, basking above Jupiter’s epic storms,mining asteroids, and so much more.

Video: Space to Ground ISS update – Nov.28.14

The latest update on activities aboard the Int. Space Station

Video: Visioning the Cosmos – An Artist’s Perspective

From last summer’s SETICon 2 event organized by the SETI Institute, here is a video of a panel discussion titled: Visioning the Cosmos – An Artist’s Perspective.

From the video caption the panelists:

  • Charles Lindsay — He photographs at the interface between nature and culture. It is his fascination with our relationship to the earth which connects all of his work…
  • Lynette Cook — most widely known as an out-of-this-world space artist, Cook has enthralled …
  • Rosaly Lopes — Dr. Rosaly M. C. Lopes is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory….
  • Moderator: Gabriel Alvarado-Marín — a visual designer and illustrator at the SETI Institute, …

Everyone can participate in space