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The "Moon Buggy Mission," Apollo 15
This week marks the 40th anniversary for Apollo 15, the less famous of manned lunar missions including Apollo 11, Apollo 13 ("NASA's finest hour"), and Apollo 14 (the one where Alan Shepard played...
View ArticleRay Bradbury at NASA JPL, 1971, reading his poem "If Only We Had Taller Been"...
[Video Link] A beautiful video from NASA JPL honoring Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday, June 5 2012 at 91. Through the years, Ray Bradbury attended several major space mission events at JPL/Caltech. On...
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Spacecraft 3D: Nifty robotic space travel augmented-reality app from NASA JPL
I recently had a chance to visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Miles O'Brien. At the NASA center in Pasadena, engineers are readying for the long-anticipated landing of the Mars Curiosity rover...
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"The Eagle has landed." Remembering Apollo 11: July 20, 1969
Left to right: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, the crew of Apollo 11. Photo: NASA. On this day in 1969, humans walked on the moon for the first time. The Apollo 11 spaceflight...
View Article"We are on the fucking moon" (video)
[Video Link] Yesterday was the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon in 1969, the first time humans ever set foot on another world. Today, we discover this long-lost footage and audio from...
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How the Eagle Landed: Grumman Construction Log, and a message to space...
On the anniversary of Apollo 11, Steve Jurvetson posted an amazing, never-before-seen series of space artifacts. He writes: On July 20, 1969, Eagle landed on the moon. These are the handwritten notes...
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Character from Valve's Portal 2 game is "going to actual space"
"Wheatley," an orb-shaped robot pal in Valve Software's popular 2011 game Portal 2, is on his way to space. The unauthorized stowaway is on a Japanese spacecraft now in Earth orbit, heading to the the...
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Sally Ride, first American woman in space, has died
Dr. Sally Ride, an American physicist and former NASA astronaut, has died of pancreatic cancer. She joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman to travel into space. From a...
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Sally Ride's sister, on the quiet acknowledgement of her orientation: "I hope...
Astronaut, physicist, and American science hero Sally Ride died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, at 61. Dr. Ride was the first American female in space, and left a vast legacy of scientific...
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Miles O'Brien: Ride, Sally Ride
At the PBS Newshour website, a post by Miles O'Brien about one of his encounters with the late Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. He writes about the night of January 28, 2003, when...
View ArticleMars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity headed for Mars landing. Are you ready?
NASA JPL's nuclear-powered Curiosity rover will try to land at the foot of a 3-mile-high mountain on Mars this Sunday night (technically, early Monday morning) to learn more about the possible building...
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Interview with a Mars rover driver: Scott Maxwell of JPL
Photo (NASA JPL): The first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface from the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover, which are located on the rover's "head" or mast. The rim of Gale...
View ArticleAtlantis returns to Kennedy: a review of the space shuttle's new permanent...
“Is it still flying?” I have been asked that question many times. Back in 2011, I was proud to answer “yes.” But the answer is now “no,” which angers many in the space community, and also leads some...
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Over 8,400 NASA Apollo moon mission photos just landed online, in...
Space fans, rejoice: today, just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions is now on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account. There are some 8,400 photographs in all at a...
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Why does long-term zero-g hurt astronauts' eyes? Mystery solved
Turns out that long stints in outer space affect levels of cerebrospinal fluid. That explains why many astronauts who had 20/20 vision before space missions needed glasses upon return, according to a...
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Japanese astronaut who's grown 3-1/2 inches in space hopes he'll fit in...
It's typical for astronauts in space to grow in height up to two inches. But 3-1/2 inches? Not so common, according to NASA. However, Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, who is currently at the...
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VFX artist demonstrates just how big SpaceX rockets are
Because most people see SpaceX rocket launches on a small screen or from a great distance, here's a better sense of how enormous these vehicles are by adding them to real-world places. (more…)
View ArticleHalf of Brits polled would refuse a safe return-trip the the Moon -- simply...
When Brits were asked by YouGov if they'd be willing to take a trip to the Moon (with safe return assured) half said no. Top reasons cited: not interested (23%), not enough to do or see (11%), would...
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Chernobyl fungus could block cosmic radiation in Martian colonies
YouTuber Anton Petrov summarizes the latest research that suggests a fungus found thriving in Chernobyl could be used to block radiation in spacesuits, extraterrestrial structures, and more, based on...
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