Global Spin

On March 11th, 2012 in Austin, TX at the SXSW Interactive conference, I had the privilege of being on a panel of space enthusiasts called “How to Win Friends and Influence Space Exploration“. You can listen to audio of the panel at the SXSW site. The panel was fun, and I put together a slide [...]

Posted by Chris in Space on April 13th, 2012 | Comments Off

If you’re in Southern California on January 5th, you might get a chance to see two space stations in the sky at the same time. (Pretty cool, right?) If it’s clear enough, and if I’ve read the magnitudes and times and directions correctly on Heavens Above, here’s what I’ll be doing that night: At 5:00pm [...]

Posted by Chris in Space on January 4th, 2012 | Comments Off

I had to post this in response to the flurry of rumors around NASA’s announcement that this Thursday they will “discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The rule is simple: When you tell a child anything, they will ignore most of it and leave only the words [...]

Posted by Chris in Family, Space on November 30th, 2010 | Comments Off

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in tech. Ada was a mathematician and the world’s first programmer; in the mid-19th Century she wrote technical documentation and programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. This year, Suw Charman-Anderson made a pledge: “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman [...]

Posted by Chris in Feminism, Space, Technology on March 24th, 2009 | Comments Off

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the National Space Society has donated telescopes to students in over 20 countries as part of the Permission to Dream project. The project page posted photos of a recent star party in Nepal, featuring one of the donated telescopes: Click through to the Permission to Dream project page [...]

Posted by Chris in Space, To Help, World on October 27th, 2008 | Comments Off