The end of January seems like a problematic time for NASA. The three big disasters involving US Astronauts have all occurred around this time.
Apollo I
It wasn’t called Apollo one until later, but during the (theoretically) routine ground test of the Apollo capsule on January 27, 1967 Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger [...]
Remembering the Fallen
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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Space News Roundup
January 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There’s been quite a bit of space related news lately, and I thought I’d try to do a quick roundup of some of it. So here goes:
SpaceShipTwo
For a mere $200,000 you can book a trip on Virgin Galactic’s newest craft, the SpaceShipTwo. It’s reported to be a bit roomier than SpaceShipOne, with a cabin roughly [...]
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It’s August, so it must be Mars Hoax time
August 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Looks like this is one of those internet classics. Rather than going through the whole thing again, here’s my post from last year.
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NASA’s CoLab
April 11th, 2007 · No Comments
via Slashdot:
Wired has an article on a new effort at NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) called CosmosCode, which is part of the CoLab initiative. From the CoLab website:
As NASA’s lead center for information technology in support of the Vision for Space Exploration, ARC is exploring new opportunities to work openly and collaboratively with [...]
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Site Updates
August 30th, 2006 · No Comments
I’ve added two new papers to the site, one on Military use of the spectrum and the other on nuclear power sources in space.
I also just realized that some of the links on that page were dead. I’ll be working on getting those papers added to this site for a more permanent home.
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