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Go outside tonight after the sun has long set. Find a place where there are no streetlights and you haven’t a flashlight or match. Choose a night when the moon is not up and its cloudy. Now, toss your...
View ArticlePlanetary Resources
My interest in astronomy and all things space goes back to at least the age of four. I read my first science fiction book when I was in third grade. In many of the early science fiction stories...
View ArticleSpace Legends
One of the more amusing urban legends relates to the space pen. According to the story, during the space race back in the 1960′s, NASA needed a pen that would write in the zero gravity of space....
View ArticleThe Telescope
The telescope is one of those items that people both rarely think about and take entirely for granted. 2008 was the 400th anniversary of its invention in 1608. When Columbus sailed the ocean blue, he...
View ArticleSurveyor Program
Between 1966 and 1968, NASA launched seven unmanned spacecraft toward the moon. Two of them crashed, but five of them successfully landed on the lunar surface. Managed and operated by the Jet...
View ArticlePositronic
The science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a series of novels and short stories about robots. Besides inventing the three laws of robotics, he also came up with the idea of the robots having brains...
View ArticleTesla Motors
My wife and I are early adopters of new technology and we are both enamored of the electric car company, Tesla. The Tesla Motors, Inc. was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, J.B....
View ArticleGoing to Mars
On June 4, 2010 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, launched their Falcon 9 rocket for the first time. The flight successfully placed its upper stage into orbit. The...
View ArticleCurrent Space
After a year orbiting the asteroid Vesta, the space probe Dawn is now on its way to the dwarf planet Ceres, slated to arrive there in 2015. In August, the car-sized Curiosity rover landed safely on...
View ArticleEnterprise
On Pearl Harbor Day, 2009—64 years after the Japanese attack—the first commercial suborbital space ship was unveiled in Mojave, California. The then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the...
View ArticleGod Loves You
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:7-8) The...
View ArticleSpaceX Update
Once again SpaceX flew their Grasshopper in Texas. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Twitter, the goal of the test was to determine if the rocket could perform “hard lateral deviation, stabilize...
View ArticleWarp Drive Update
Below is a video from the third day of this past week’s Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress. Dr. White of NASA updated the progress of his experiments (at the NASA Houston space center) to create a...
View ArticleFalcon 9-R
The first demonstration launch of the new version of the Falcon 9, referred to as either the Falcon 9 v.1.1 or the Falcon 9-R launched successfully from Vandenberg AFB on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at...
View ArticleWell Done, Grasshopper
From SpaceX: On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than...
View ArticleRockets to Scale
I had been wanting to compare the sizes of some of the various rockets that seem important to me. When I failed to find anything that satisfied me, I decided to create my own chart. I took images of...
View ArticleLearning How to Recover the First Stage of a Falcon 9
From SpaceX, regarding the September 29 launch of an upgraded Falcon 9 from Vandenberg AFB in California: Though not a primary mission objective, SpaceX was also able to initiate two engine relights on...
View ArticleSpaceShipTwo
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View ArticleIndia to Mars
On November 5, 2013, at 4:08 a.m. EST (0908 GMT) the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota launched an ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle carrying India’s Mars...
View Article15 Years: International Space Station
The first module of the International Space Station, the Russian module known as Zarya, reached orbit on November 20, 1998. Since the arrival of Expedition 1 on 2 November 2000, the station has been...
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