“We’re NASA And We Know It” [Video]

I absolutely love this video (I still have a big smile on my face from watching it) and I think that it is fantastic that after being ignored for such a long time it is suddenly cool to be working at NASA again. Read More

Getting Eaten By Black Holes Makes Stars ‘Scream’

Yes, I know, there’s no such thing as ‘sound’ in space but come on you’d be screaming to if you were getting eaten by a black hole and you wouldn’t care if anyone heard you or not.

On the serious side however astronomers at the University of Michigan have managed to measure the noise made by a star as it was swallowed by a black hole in a galaxy some 3.9 billion light years away; which, in scientific terms is referred to as “quasiperiodic oscillations”. Read More

The Space Documentary That Needs To Get Made [Video]

My wife and I disagree on the whole man in space thing. She is a firm believer that man has no business going to places like the moon and other planets as long as our world is the way it is. I on the other hand firmly believe that mankind is doomed to extinction if we don’t get off of this planet and better sooner than later. Read More

NASA’s Upcoming “Seven Minutes Of Terror” [Video]

In 44 days NASA’s SUV-sized Curiosity Mars rover will be attempting to complete one of the most amazing landings ever planned by the space agency.

To help us understand just how awesome this landing will be, and one even some of the engineer’s have called crazy, NASA has put together a really cool video where the engineers involved in the project explain just how this landing is so different from anything they have tried before. Read More

NASA Fan Creates Fantastic Video About Space And Our “Absence Of Ambition” [Video]

People in general are under a badly informed opinion that our space program is nothing more than a waste of money and a dream of the past. Read More

Microsoft’s Kinect Technology Could Be An Integral Part Of Next-Gen Micro-Satellites

Very shortly after Microsoft released the Kinect as an add-on for its Xbox console, and they came to their senses after hackers went wild over its possibilities, I stated quiet a number of times that with the … Read More

NASA Gets Hit With A 1959 Budget

House pares NASA’s 2013 spending back to 1959 levels, may force Europa mission – Ars Technica

The House budget, which drops NASA $226M to $19.57B, contrasts with the Senate budget, which also cuts money from the $830M Commercial Crew budget request but decreases … Read More

9 Years Into An Original 3-Month Mission Mars Opportunity Continues On

Mars Rover starts its 9th year – Phys.Org

All six of Opportunity’s wheels are still useful for driving, but the rover will stay on an outcrop called “Greeley Haven” until mid-2012 to take advantage of the outcrop’s favorable slope and … Read More