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Update on the Square Kilometer Array + Cosmic rays as lightning triggers

A member of the Susquehanna Astronomical Society points me to a couple of recent  news items of interest starting with an update on The Square Kilometre Array:

And the latest on cosmic rays setting off lightning bolts: Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays – Susquehanna Astronomical Society.

The Adventures of an Armchair Astronaut and the future of journalism

A Columbia University journalism class offers a set of stories as part of their  Project Wordsworth – What’s a good story worth to you?

Project Wordsworth is a collective of 17 Columbia Journalism School graduate students who are running an experiment—and you’re already a part of it. Each of us has written a good story that transports you somewhere else, somewhere you’ve never been. That’s worth something. But how much? You decide. Your input will teach us something new about journalism’s future. All proceeds go to the authors.

In one of the stories the author tells of becoming fascinated about space and spaceflight and setting out to learn all about it: Cosmic Postcards: The Adventures of an Armchair Astronaut by Kamakshi Ayyar.

Dr. Stan Rosen & Dave Dressler discuss ISDC 2013 on The Space Show

The upcoming National Space Development Conference (ISDC 2013), May 23 – 27, 2013, San Diego, California was the subject of the Space Show on Tuesday along with “space education, commerce, human exploration, science, & more”: Dr. Stan Rosen, Dave Dressler on ISDC 2013, Tuesday, 5-14-13 | Thespaceshow’s Blog.

See the General Conference Tracks Information for the areas of presentations and discussions at the event.

Project Morpheus tests – May.16.13

The Project Morpheus team at NASA JSC was out testing their new lander on a tether Thursday. See the postings at Morpheus Lander (MorpheusLander) on Twitter as in these two examples:

  1. Thanks for watching! Not tomorrow, but NEXT WEEK for sure! Soon we should have a live video feed to the world as well!

  2. At 3ft in the air, I just had another successful test fire! I’m feeling good… now I get to do some RCS tests before we wrap for the day!