Explorer beat Sputnik?
Posted by Deb in History, Science, Space, Technology on February 1st, 2008 | Comments Off
SpaceShipTwo is unveiled
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 [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on January 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
mirrors and moonbeams
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 [...]
Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough, Space, Travel on December 10th, 2007 | Comments Off
How the lunar module evolved
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 | Comments Off
Google backs a $30 million Lunar X-Prize
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 [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology on September 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
