Archive for the 'Space' Category

Galaxy Zoo - take part in a census of one million galaxies

What a cool project... Galaxy Zoo leverages the human collective intelligence to help classify thousands of images taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: "Astronomers are ...

Successful launch of Atlantis STS-117 Mission to the Space Station

A great, successful launch of STS-117. Awesome. I'm glad. The first Shuttle launch of 2007. Mission STS-117, on board Atlantis, is the 21st Space Shuttle mission ...

January 2007 - remembering the crew of Apollo 1 and STS 51-L

A day like yesterday, 40 years ago on January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died during the Apollo 1 ground ...

NASA manned space exploration plans for the next 20 years

It is very exciting to see NASA (trying) to go back to its roots of space and human planetary exploration. See below NASA’s plans for ...

BLUE ORIGIN REVEALED

Cosmic Log has published a story titled Blue Origin Revealed, where you can read and learn about Blue Origin, which is Jeff Bezos aerospace company ...

STS-116, so far so good

I have been so busy, that I totally missed the fact that the Shuttle STS-116 crew had launched last Saturday onboard Orbiter Discovery (OV-103); the ...

12 Astronauts in Space, Station is now Half Built

12 Astronauts in space at the same time... I think that is a new record, isn't? 6 astronauts in the Shuttle STS-115, 3 in the ...

Anousheh Ansari - First Female Private Space Explorer

Anousheh Ansari is a serial entrepreneur and is Chairwoman to Prodea Systems of Plano Texas. She also is the first female private space explorer (tourist), ...

On the Space Station, STS-115, a rant and some memories

Today I watched NASA-TV's video stream - you should check it out, it is pretty awesome to see in real-time (or not) the men ...

Pluto not a planet, but a dwarf planet

By now you probably know that the International Astronomical Union came out with some guidelines for what is considered a planet. This effort to ...

37 Years Ago Today….

The date was July 20, 1969. The mission was Apollo 11. A day like today, 37 years ago, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon... Forgotten ...

STS-121 Discovery Blast Off!

STS-121 has cleared the launch-pad, and the mission has begun. A perfect blast-off, on a perfect Fourth of July - this is the first Space ...

STS-121 Discovery web page and other info

Today's launch attempt was scrubbed (for the second time) due to weather - 3rd attempt will occur on July 4 - great day to have ...

Launch Photography

I found a very neat web site called Total Eclipse (http://www.launchphotography.com) by photographer Ben Cooper, with photos of current and past Space Shuttle and other ...

Exploring New Horizons…

AP Photo by John Raoux NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission has begun... Neat. The New Horizons probe was launched on top of an Atlas V rocket from ...