Will Geothermal Energy Power Our Solar System?, written 1 day ago, Regardless whether one intends to dwell upon a dusty world, or an icy one, living on another planet, moon, or dwarf planet is going to require energy. Without a dependable power source, off world settlements will become nothing but f...

Visions of NASA's Orion, written 2 days ago, A mock-up of the Orion space capsule heads to its temporary home in a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. In late 2008, the full-size structural model will be jettisoned off a simulated launch pad at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missil...

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MythBusters Tackle Moon Conspiracies: Behind the Scenes, written 1 week ago, On the eve of one of their biggest busts yet, PM contributing editors Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage explain how they made their own fake photos, built a moon set in an hour-and even went weightless themselves.

Teacher Tools for the High Frontier: Big Moon edition, written 4 days ago, Howdy all! Your friendly Lunar Librarian is back, this time to share some of the many educational support materials that are to be found in the Lunar Library. Teachers have a tough job, made more difficult by the fact that ma...

New icy world resembles a comet, written 1 week ago, Space probes have told us much about the inner worlds of the solar system but we are only just getting to know our more distant neighbours. In particular, the realm of icy worlds around and beyond Neptune has never been examined by any craft – a...

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Point of Know Return, written 3 days ago, Wayne Hale, perhaps the best manager in the shuttle program's turbulent history, draws a line in the sand for the shuttle. He correctly points out that the shuttle supply chain is being dismantled, and an indefinite extension is not in the cards. His tone is...

Hurricanes Lessons., written 2 days ago, There are a lot of information you can find now online about a current tropical cyclone Gustav that has intensified rapidly into a strong Category 1 Hurricane. It's powerful natural phenomenon and not one to be trifled with. Many people who have lived in the ...

Ancient civilization on mars, written 2 days ago, Yes I'm one of those. LOL Anyway I've heard many debunkers before but it has deterred me. I've heard the always familar "it's shadows" and may personal favorite "reflections of light" but its all in fun and curiousity so in the en...

Galactic Suite: 38 Reservations for Orbital Hotel, written 1 day ago, GALACTIC SUITE PRESS RELEASE (Barcelona. August 2008) — The Space Tourism Company Galactic Suite already has 38 reservations made by tourists who in 2012 will travel to the hotel to spend four days at 450 kilometres from the Ear...

COSMOS applauds Australia's new laureate scheme, written 1 day ago, Luna Media, publisher of Australia's #1 science magazine Cosmos, today applauded the Federal Government announcement of a new Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme.

New Tracking System (finally), written 1 hour ago, All right guys, this is it. I rewrote the tracking system. The other one was quite old and it needed a rewrite from scratch. Its all build upon predict by John Magliacane. A lot of others copied the idea (including Amsat) but believe me this site wa...

hubble servicing mission 4, written 1 day ago, the atlantis space shuttle is preparing to launch on the STS-125 mission to perform the final repairs on the hubble space telescope. it's difficult to describe the impact hubble has had on scientific discovery of the properties of our universe although ...

Astro-philatelics, part 29, written 1 day ago, Pyramids and rockets, oh my!

Just a little updating made, written 3 weeks ago, There is an increase reported in the last few months concerning the visitors numbers. The SSHPN/HPNMC is, that is not unimportant, in the near vicinity of a worldwide reknowned winter sports and summer recreational centre at Rogla [location link]. Th...

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Ares Program's Shocking Development, written 1 week ago, Apparently the engineering team working on the ARES CEV are considering adding weights and shock absorbers between the first (SRB) and second stage in order to dampen hefty vibrations that might otherwise blur the vision of the crew or cause p...

NASA to study extending the shuttle era to 2015, written 6 days ago, Editor's Note: This is an updated version of our earlier post. We also would like to note that another space news website, nasaspaceflight.com, had a similar story posted today about an hour before us that was compiled from a compl...

September 11, 1935 - Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov is born, written 1 week ago, Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov (born September 11, 1935 in the village of Verkhnie Zhilino) died on September 20, 2000. Titov was the second human to orbit the earth, preceded only by Yuri Gagarin. Wikipedia says: &qu...