The Solar System’s planetary roll call just got longer. From today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day:
One of the strangest objects in the outer Solar System was classified as a dwarf planet last week and given the name Haumea. This designation makes Haumea the fifth designated dwarf planet after Pluto, Ceres, Eris, and Makemake. Haumea’s smooth [...]
Posted by Chris in News, Science, Space on September 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
[from my GeekDad post]
Robert Woodhead, self-described Mad Overlord and all-around geek, has posted an amazing amount of detail from his recent experiment in seeing how the Diet Coke & Mentos reaction works in microgravity. It’s a modification of the now-standard geyser-producing demonstration, but with a twist: performing the trick on a Zero G flight and [...]
Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Science, Space on September 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
And showing off the friendship star quilt that Karen made for Luke, too!
Posted by Deana in Art, Crafts, Fun, Government, Making Stuff, Personality, Shameless Promotion, Space, Technology, That which is awesome on August 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[I'm going to start posting some of my GeekDad articles over here, so you'll know when new ones are available. Let me know if this is unnecessary duplication.]
I had the pleasure of meeting Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides at a SEDS UCSD talk the other day. It quickly became obvious that she’s one of Our People, and [...]
Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Space on May 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
The new endeavor, named Virgle, has been written up on the Google blog by Sir Richard Branson.
Radcliffs, get your rockets ready!
Posted by Deana in April Foolishness, Blog, Business, Fun, Humor, News, Oddly Enough, Science, Space, Travel, You have got to be kidding on April 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s the fiftieth anniversary, give or take, of Sputnik and Explorer I. While the Russians might have beaten the U.S. into space, the U.S. apparently came in first place for science. Or at least according to this op-ed from the L.A. Times:
Fifty years ago tomorrow, the United States launched its first satellite, Explorer [...]
Posted by Deb in History, Science, Space, Technology on February 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t looked at details yet, but Virgin Galactic showed off models of their new spacecraft today according to a New York Times article:
Mr. Rutan, the creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on January 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is anyone interested in a road trip to Arizona for some moonshine? No, not that kind of moonshine. I’m talking about moonlight reflected off a five-story mirror array in the desert near Tuscon.
A Tucson-based inventor and businessman Richard Chapin and his wife Monica are behind the giant device, which gathers up and focuses the light [...]
Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough, Space, Travel on December 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
Just a note to brag that the November 2007 issue of the British Interplanetary Society’s magazine Spaceflight: The Magazine of Astronautics and Outer Space features an article called “Grumman’s ambitious spider” about how Grumman tried to modify the Lunar Module to give it more flexibility and utility. The authors of this interesting article (which features [...]
Posted by Deana in Journalism, Science, Shameless Promotion, Space, Technology on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! The X-Prize Foundation just launched a new competition, offering $20 million to the first team to send a rover to the moon and send back high-definition photos. From the Beeb:
To claim the cash, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology on September 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
