From the site of Lights Over Lapland | by Chad & Linnea Blakley comes this beautiful video:
Auroras in Abisko National Park February 1st, 2014 from Lights Over Lapland on Vimeo.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Auction of camera purported to be used on Moon during Apollo 15
Robert Pearlmann writes about the auctioning of what is claimed to be a Hasselblad camera used by astronaut James Irwin on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission : NASA moon landing camera claimed to be used by Apollo astronaut up for auction – collectSPACE.
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The Space Show this week
The guests and topics for The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome back JIM CRISAFULLI. Jim is the Director of the Hawaii Office of Aerospace Development. We will be discussing the very exciting Hawaii space programs underway in the state.
2. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014:, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): We welcome back CHRIS CARBERRY of Explore Mars to the program.
3. Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, 9:30-11 AM PST (12:30-2 PM EST; 11:30 AM-1 PM CST): We welcome back DR. TOM MATULA to discuss new space finance and other ideas. Dr. Matula is a long time space advocate and is a business, marketing and finance professor.
4. Sunday, February 29 2014, 12-1:30 PM PST (3-4:30 PM EST, 2-3:30 PM CST). RICK TUMLINSON, co-founder of The Space Frontier Foundation, is our guest. Rick is a somewhat regular Space Show guests and writes excellent space op-eds for NewSpace & Commercial Space.
See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
Space policy roundup – Feb.3.14 [Updated]
A selection of space policy/politics related links:
- Space Policy Events for February 2-7, 2014 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Upcoming: Canadian space policy rollout, House hearing on NASA property – Space Politics
- What the media got right and wrong—and missed—about Virgin Galactic’s China problem – NewSpace Journal
- ISS Partnership for the Nobel Peace Prize: So Far, So Good – Space Safety Magazine
- Space debris: The legal issues – Insight Blog/Royal Aeronautical Society
- Productiveness of dialogue on space with U.S. exceeds expectations – Foreign Ministry official – Interfax
- Library: A Round-up of Reading – Res Communis
Update:
- Medvedev signs decree on formation of Unified Rocket and Space Corporation – Russia Beyond The Headlines
- NASA Administrator Bolden, Senator Mikulski View Progress on James Webb Space Telescope – NASA
Update 2:
ISS-Above lights up when a huge space station flies over your location
Via Universe Today comes a pointer to the Kickstarter for ISS-Above by Liam Kennedy. The ISS-Above is a
device that lights up whenever the International Space Station is nearby (that happens more often than you might expect)
[…]
The International Space Station passes overhead most of the populated areas of the world more frequently than you would imagine. If only you knew it was there.
That’s what the ISS-Above does.
It lights up when the ISS is nearby, but that’s not all. It can also TWEET a message to the Space Station and it has its own built-in web server to give you a ton of information about current and future passes.
It’s both an awareness thing, so more people get to know the Space Station is in their sky, and it’s also to let those who are “up there” know that we know and appreciate what they are doing!
[ Update: A reader points to a Kickstarter project in 2011 for a similar ISS flyover device : ISS-Notify by Nathan Bergey — Kickstarter.]
The goal of the Kickstarter is to make the device available to more people. The campaign has already exceeded its goal with over 24 days left.
From Universe Today :
A complete ISS-Above device preloaded with your location is available for kicking in to the Kickstarter for $115. If you just want the memory card with your location and custom Twitter login for sending a Tweet to the ISS, then the price is just $42. There are several other options as well.