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"How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?"
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2012/03/08 05:53 CST | 1 comments
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -- Antoine St. Exupery. Currently, NASA's Mars science exploration budget is being decimated, we are not going back to the Moon, and plans for astronauts to visit Mars are delayed until the 2030s -- on funding not yet allocated, overseen by a congress and president to be named later.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/03/06 02:08 CST
A recap of the "carnival of nerdly delights" that is LeetUp.
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2012/01/13 10:35 CST
We explore space for the noblest goals of science and exploration, and we often persevere in spite of challenges. But space exploration is fraught with bad things happening, or, to use the technical term, ouchies. The Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE biomodule will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days with the rest of the Phobos-Grunt mission.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/13 10:29 CST
Emily wakes up her 5-year-old daughter to experience her first lunar eclipse.
365 Days of Astronomy Celebrates Sagan's Birthday
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2011/11/10 02:09 CST
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast celebrated Carl Sagan's birthday yesterday by reposting my conversation with Ann Druyan, Sagan's Co-creator and life-partner. Links inside.
The fish that sent us to the moon
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/10/20 06:16 CDT
The tale of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft, which ferried parts of America's space program to their launch pads.
Posted by Ted Stryk on 2011/09/26 01:19 CDT
Ted Stryk reminisces on how he was turned on to astronomy.
Guest Post: Pablo Gutierrez-Marques: Vesta, a revelation
Posted by Pablo Gutierrez-Marques on 2011/08/09 12:19 CDT
Guest Post: Pablo Gutierrez-Marques: Vesta, a revelation
Posted by Meg Schwamb on 2011/06/08 02:43 CDT
On May 5 and 6, I had a run on the WIYN (Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO) telescope, a 3.5 m telescope, the second largest telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona.
Shuttle LIFE is go for launch with Endeavour!
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2011/04/29 04:02 CDT
The Planetary Society's Shuttle LIFE experiment is now go for launch on Endeavour's STS-134 mission. I came down to Florida for the loading of our tiny sample tubes into the CREST-1 (Commercial Reusable Experiments for Science & Technology) payload block.
Posted by Bill Nye on 2011/04/22 02:30 CDT | 1 comments
The Earth is important, and sometimes we need a reminder as to just how fragile it is.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/04/04 04:54 CDT
I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity today for a face-to-face visit with one of the biggest celebrities in my world: Curiosity, the next Mars rover. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory gave members of the media a chance to suit up in the white coveralls known as "bunny suits" and enter the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, the clean room in which Curiosity is being assembled and prepared for launch.
Nick Schneider: Notes on an earthquake
Posted by Nick Schneider on 2011/03/16 10:39 CDT
I was heading south to Tokyo with Seiko and Ishi, two students from the conference. We were planning a dinner together, maybe catching the nighttime skyline from the top of Tokyo Tower. I dozed off as the train flew silently through the countryside. Next thing I knew, Seiko was shaking me awake saying "Earthquake! Earthquake."
My day with Hawking and Aldrin
Posted by Louis D. Friedman on 2011/02/02 12:12 CST
I was very fortunate to be able to meet with Stephen Hawking and Buzz Aldrin over lunch at Hawking's temporary home in Pasadena this week. We got together to discuss views on the future of human space exploration.
"A genuinely weird experience": A video of Steve Squyres explaining a photo of Steve Squyres
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/01/12 10:09 CST
In a lovely talk, in his uncommonly engaging way, Steve Squyres presents the portrait of him that now hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Discovery Launch Scrubbed, Again
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2010/11/05 02:54 CDT
The launch has been scrubbed once again due to a critical hydrogen leak detected once fueling had been underway for a while.
Space Shuttle: Not Designed by Hollywood
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2010/11/02 01:42 CDT
A brief musing on the public opinion of the shuttle when it was first unveiled, and now, as it's about to be retired.
There is something about the space shuttle...
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2010/11/01 06:48 CDT
Mat Kaplan relays his experiences and thoughts as he makes his way to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of the shuttle Discovery.
Posted by Rosaly Lopes on 2010/10/07 05:22 CDT
Rosaly Lopes relates her time at a workshop in Piton.
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