Mark your calendar… the Geminid meteor shower, the best meteor shower of 2007 peaks on Friday, December 14th. For more information see the Science@NASA article Asteroid Shower. ceo
NASA’s new redesigned website breaks off the traditional, old fashion (government looking) look and feel, with support for new AJAX’ish flashy behavior, a new MySpace tab, and cool graphics. Check it out. ceo
Wow, so gorgeous, check it out… Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has released two high definition videos of Earth-rise and Earth-set, as witnessed by its lunar explorer SELENE, which is now orbiting our largest natural satellite. See the videos (note, downloading is slow): “Earth-rise”…
I’m not sure that many folks know about the New Horizons probe, which is in route to the Pluto-Kuiper Belt, in the outer solar system (this is beyond the orbit of planet Neptune). The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in January of 2006,…
Google is funding the Lunar X Prize with $30 million, to encourage private teams to go to the moon, with $20 million to the first private enterprise to put a robot on the moon. Very nice Google! I love the space program, and…
The moon was redish this morning… I saw it! Did you? Space.com has an article on this morning’s full lunar eclipse – it has been a while since I see one, and it was the first one for my daughter… See NASA’s page…
I missed the launch of STS-118 yesterday due to business travel… But it is great to see the successful and historical launch of the STS-118 Space Shuttle Endeavour. We have liftoff! of the Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-118… The Vehicle Orbiter: OV-105 Endeavour at…
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 inviting members of the public to help them make major new discoveries by taking part in a…
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 to the International Space Station… this one is taking 7 astronauts to the station. It has been…
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 test accident. A day like today, 21 years ago on January 28, 1986, astronauts Francis “Dick” Scobee, Michael…
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