Many people are being inspired by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield who is creating great music and amazing photographs during his stay on the International Space Station and tweeting about his activities to the public. Australian artist Gaving Aung Than of the Zen Pencils site took some of Hadfield’s remarks given during a recent Reddit Ask Me Anything session and turned them into motivational cartoons:
Carnival of Space # 291 – NextBigFuture.com
NextBigFuture hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
House hearing on “Threats from Space”
There will be a hearing tomorrow (Mar 6, 2013 2:00pm) in the US House of Representatives on the threat from asteroid impacts:
- House Science Committee to hear about “threats from space” « Space Politics
- Full Committee Hearing – Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1 | Committee on Science – U.S. House of Representatives – includes webcast
Copenhagen Suborbitals: It is for real + Space nation Denmark video
After several years of building and flying things at Copenhagen Suborbitals, Kristian von Bengtson addresses the question of why some people still accuse the project of being a hoax: Copenhagen Suborbitals – How Do You Know this is Not a Hoax? – Wired Science/Wired.com.
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In this video von Bengtson and Peter Madsen talk about the CS project: Space nation Denmark – Videos about Denmark/The official website of Denmark –
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Space Engine – free 3D space simulation software
Via Ralph Ewig’s blog comes a pointer to the Space Engine, which is a
free space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by human astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets!
Here is a video created by the Space Engine: