Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Space Station’s IT guys
It’s the most expensive single thing ever built (£92bn and counting), the quickest manned vehicle in existence (17,300mph) and the staging point for future Moon and Mars missions.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
“Space Internet” to Link Worlds by 2011?
For all its might, the World Wide Web is still limited to, well, our world. But that’s quickly changing with the advent of an “interplanetary internet” that planners say will revolutionize space communication. The Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) system, which entered another phase of testing this week, will allow astronauts to Google from the moon or tweet their observations from space.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
What Is the Future of Humans in Space?
A 10-person committee charged with reviewing the future of U.S. human spaceflight will hold its first public meeting today, beginning a process that must cover a lot of territory in very little time.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
NASA/Ames Ready to Explode One of the Coolest Space Missions Ever
In an unprecedented scientific endeavor–and what may be one of the coolest space missions ever–NASA is preparing to fly a rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm the presence of water.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Self-Help Software to Soothe Stressed Astronauts
When astronauts in orbit stress out, they call Earth to chat with a NASA psychiatrist. But transmitting messages to Mars and beyond would take 20 minutes or so, requiring new approaches to mental health in space. So researchers are developing self-help software that allows space travelers to carry their counselors with them on a DVD.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Howard Hughes’s Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs
Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when Internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes.
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Friday, August 1, 2008
Twitter Tells Me NASA Has Found Water on Mars!
In yet another powerful showcase of Twitter’s potential power as a disseminator of information, today several people received the first information via the service that NASA has confirmed that its Phoenix Mars Lander has in fact found water on Mars.
Monday, June 2, 2008
NASA to Put Buzz Lightyear on International Space Station
Talk about cross-promotion. One of the closest things to Disney World’s Orlando, Fla., home, is NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, and this is relevant because on Friday, it was announced that among the objects expected to be blasted into the sky with the planned Saturday launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery is a figurine of Toy Story space ranger Buzz Lightyear.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing
People got very excited in 2004 when NASA’s rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. … What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Why Not the “Clarke Event”?
While most of us slept on the morning of March 19, hours before the death of famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was announced, a shot rang out in the Universe the likes of which are unknown in human history. By a preliminary analysis, this object was visible to the unaided human eye in the constellation Bootes, and at an estimated 7.5 billion light years, it was the farthest object ever observable by the human eye in all of recorded history. In addition, it was 2.5 million times more luminous than the most luminous supernova ever recorded, making this event, according to a NASA news release, “the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe.”
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