Mar 11
Last year, NASA introduced its partnership with Planetary Resources and upcoming Grand Asteroid Challenge, which pits humanity against the race to protect our planet from potentially devastating asteroids. On Monday, … Continue reading
Mar 08
Ran for ~1 orbit today. 12 miles on the treadmill while the station travelled more than 25,000 miles. I’ve now run around the world.
— Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) March 8, 2014
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Mar 07
Scientist have been studying rocks from Mars for a number of years that mankind didn’t pick up from the Martian surface and bring back to Earth on any of the … Continue reading
Mar 06
In 1979, two artists covered a Southern California building with futuristic murals. They painted moon motorcycles, high-tech highways, and spaceships that would look right at home in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. But as delightfully retro-futuristic as the building is on the outside, what happens inside may surprise you. It’s the Culver City DMV.
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Mar 06
Scientists believe that one of the most likely places in the solar system to harbor life, other than Earth, is one of Jupiter’s moons called Europa. Europa is covered by … Continue reading
Mar 05
According to physicists, there are three, er, two and a half different theories on how a person would die if they got sucked in by a black hole: stretched like a spaghetti noodle, burnt like a toast and maybe even scrambled. Nova PBS explains that if the argument on how people would die if swallowed by a black hole were to ever be settled, it would "revolutionize the fundamental laws of nature". Watch and learn why in the video below
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Mar 05
Astrium, a company that has been hard at work to deliver a revolutionary new vehicle which is capable of ferrying up to four passengers up to an altitude of 100km into space, do seem to be on track to do so. This particular ride is also known as the Spaceplane E93, where should it enter service, it might even have the capabilities of fulfilling a number of other scientific or operational suborbital missions. The Buzz Lightyear in me simply wants to cry out, “To infinity and beyond!”
Spaceplane E93 Hopes To Take Off Soon original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 05
Mars One, the program that is planning to create a human settlement on Mars by 2024, has received over 200,000 applications of Earthlings who are interested in leaving their home planet forever by taking a one-way ticket to Mars. This short documentary examines a few of those people’s motivation to leave everything behind.
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Mar 05
It seems like a spaceship arriving to another planet, but it just happened right here on Earth. It’s an actual image from the successful Morpheus vehicle test completed today at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility. There’s great video too.
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Mar 05
Today Elon Musk, CEO and Chief Designer with SpaceX – and head of companies like Tesla Motors – spoke with the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. There he laid … Continue reading
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