Tag: "NASA"
NASA’s Idea of Winning the Future is Less than Inspiring
Remember when the people who ran NASA aspired to great things, like putting men on the moon and exploring the vasty blackness of our final frontier? These days, it takes much less to get then excited. Witness the headline of today’s big press release: NASA Announces Plan To Win The Future With Fiscal Year 2012 [...]
Don’t Swagger, NASA. You Haven’t Earned It Yet.
I like to think I’m more plugged in to science news than the average person, but I don’t think I’m plugged in so much that I believe that NASA had this glorious a year. NASA in 2010 set a new course for human spaceflight, helped rewrite science textbooks, redefined our understanding of Earth’s nearest celestial [...]
Big NASA Announcement Tomorrow; Alien Invasion Fleet Takes Parking Orbit
Hmmm… WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The news conference will be held at [...]
“What Did You Do In School Today?” “Not Much. Crashed a Satellite”
I never got to do anything this cool in my college days. When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth’s atmosphere after a seven-year mission, a bunch of college students were at the controls. But these students didn’t hack into NASA to take the satellite for a destructive joyride — [...]
There’s A Moon Out Tonight (Well, Okay. Four).
This is very cool. The Hubble Space Telescope caught the uncommon sight of four of Saturn’s moons transiting the planet’s face. As the article explains, it’s only possible for us to see such a thing ever 15 years or so because it has to happen while Saturn’s rings are edge-on to us, otherwise the rings [...]
The Bailout is Now A Trillion Dollars More Expensive than World War II. The Madness Must Stop
How big is the bailout? Bigger than World War II. A lot bigger. If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American [...]
Drama and Grease, In Space!
As much as I love Space.com’s coverage of the current shuttle mission, they can go just a bit over the fanboy edge of enthusiasm. Take these three stories that hit my RSS reader last night and this morning. MISSION UPDATE: Space Station Urine Recycler Test Under Way MISSION UPDATE: Space Station Urine Recycler Runs Full [...]
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