Two news items caught my attention today. Though they don’t actually have anything to do with each other, reading them one after the other evokes a certain comic-book planet: An international team of astronomers from Switzerland, France and Portugal have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date. The planet has a [...]
Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough, Science, Science fiction, Space on April 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Buzz Aldrin announced something awesome today: a lottery to send some lucky winner into space. Details of the competition are still sketchy, Aldrin said at a space investment conference on Wall Street Tuesday, with the legal status of selling lottery tickets still to be resolved. He said the idea was to offer the top prize [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun, News, Space on April 18th, 2007 | Comments Off
Forty-six years ago today, a human being first went into space. And it was this guy: Вы хлынулись, Comrade Gagarin!
Posted by Deana in Events, History, Holiday! Celebrate!, Space on April 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cool (from Space.com): A Mars-orbiting satellite recently spotted seven dark spots near the planet’s equator that scientists think could be entrances to underground caves. Cooler: The researchers hope the discovery will lead to more focused spelunking on Mars. A project here on Earth aims to refine the visual and infrared techniques THEMIS used to find [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on April 3rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m sure this will come in handy someday soon. MIT researchers have created SpaceNet, a software tool for modeling interplanetary supply chains. “Increasingly, there is a realization that crewed space missions such as the International Space Station or the buildup of a lunar outpost should not be treated as isolated missions, but rather as an [...]
Posted by Chris in Science, Space, Technology on March 28th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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