I’ve been catching up on space things in preparation for the Mars Society Convention next week. Today I ran across an exciting summary of the progress that SpaceX has made toward launching their next Falcon 1 rocket as well as their much larger Falcon 9 rocket. According to the “monster progress update“, the next launch [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on August 25th, 2007 | Comments Off
I’m just about running out of awe lately. It’s like awesome things are showering down from the sky, perhaps in an attempt to counteract all the craptacular things that we are usually made aware of. So you can imagine that I started reading this article about the wonders of aerogel with a depleted awe supply. [...]
Posted by Chris in Science, Space, Technology on August 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Looks like Bigelow Aerospace has some new competition. A company called Galactic Suite has plans to build an orbiting hotel by 2012. Details are a bit sparse, but they already have $3 billion in funding to make it happen: Galactic Suite began as a hobby for former aerospace engineer Claramunt, until a space enthusiast decided [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology on August 10th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Golden-age sci-fi fans, rejoice! The future is finally here. Your skintight spacesuit has arrived: Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT… is working on a sleek, advanced suit designed to allow superior mobility when humans eventually reach Mars or return to the moon. Her spandex and nylon BioSuit is [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology on July 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Wired News posted commentary by Regina Lynn called The Uncomfortable Reality of Sex in Space, which asks intriguing questions about the social realities of long space voyages: I don’t care if you have a same-sex crew of great-grandparents who have never had a flicker of sexual desire in their entire lives. Lock a group of [...]
Posted by Chris in Anthropology, Culture, Sexuality, Space on May 19th, 2007 | Comments Off
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