Thirty-five years ago today, Americans got their first good look at a spaceship that would become a national icon. via www.foxnews.com Continue reading

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Marisa Krystian | Aug 08, 2011 | 1min:20sec Mars Rover 'Opportunity' Nears Endeavor Crater 'Spirit Point'. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover ‘Opportunity’ will revisit the rim of Endeavour crater on Mars, where its rover twin ‘Spirit’ finished its 6-year-long mission in May Driving commands sent up to Opportunity directed the six-wheel rover to make the final push toward Endeavour crater, a 14-mile-wide depression near the Martian equator that likely could be its final destination. via tv.ibtimes.com Continue reading

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First we get the Back to the Future sneakers and now Tatooine? It's a big week for sci-fi movie buffs, as NASA on Thursday revealed that its Kepler mission had uncovered evidence of a circumbinary planet, or a planet that orbits two stars. via www.pcmag.com Continue reading

NASA unveiled plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle Wednesday: an $18 billion design aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets. via www.usatoday.com Continue reading

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Alleviating concerns the International Space Station could be temporarily abandoned late this year, the Russian space agency has set Nov. 12 for the next crewed flight of the Soyuz rocket after an unmanned launch of the normally-reliable booster failed last month. via www.spaceflightnow.com Continue reading

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A planet about 880 light-years from Earth may be about to meet Alderaan‘s fate: It’s being blasted apart by a “death star.” via newswatch.nationalgeographic.com Continue reading

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Here's a nice overview article: NASA this week released new images of the lunar landing sites, which the space agency said are the sharpest photos ever taken from space. via www.pcmag.com Equipment and experiments left behind by Apollo 17 Check out this fascinating NASA webpage with side-by-side photos of the various Apollo landing sites and a most interesting video. NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites09.06.11 Media briefing materials associated with this story can be found here. via www.nasa.gov Good stuff for the moon buff. But it does beg the question, can't we go anywhere without leaving... Continue reading

I have an idea... We have been polluting space since Sputnik first orbited the Earth in 1957. For many years we have ignored it. It has now reached a stage where we can no longer do that. via news.discovery.com Continue reading

The two spacecraft will be launched in the same housing, which will separate. They will enter synchronized orbits in January, principal investigator Maria Zuber said. The slow trip saves energy. Once in orbit, their speeds will increase when they pass over formations on the moon's surface, allowing scientists to measure those formations based on the distance between the two spacecraft. via articles.cnn.com Continue reading

Astronomy buffs, hold onto your telescopes. Scientists have discovered a new supernova, or exploding star, in the Pinwheel Galaxy. And, in a few weeks, you might be able to see it for yourself with nothing but a good pair of binoculars. via latimesblogs.latimes.com Continue reading

If you're looking for hidden treasures, the dusty disk of our Milky Way galaxy might not be the first place you'd look. But that's exactly where the European Southern Observatory found almost a hundred glittering prizes. via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com Continue reading

The "big bang" may have created the universe, but a new theory suggests the "big splat" could have shaped the dark side of the moon. via www.vancouversun.com Mmmm... Extra crust. Continue reading

Martin Connors Centre for Science, Athabasca University, Athabasca AB CANADA via www.astro.uwo.ca Yes, but is it ribbed for Earth's pleasure? Continue reading

Check out this intersting article by James Oberg. I especially like the contrast he draws between Greg Jarvis and Jake Garn. HOUSTON — Now that the last shuttle has landed, the roster of space shuttle astronauts is complete — and it’s a good list of 355 people. via www.msnbc.msn.com Continue reading

It's that time of year again, when I dust off my interview with Buzz Aldrin for a little trip down memory lane. It is fast becoming a personal time-honored tradition, like listening to the Bingster at Christmas. Be sure to hit the link below for the good stuff. Apollo XI touched down on the lunar surface forty-one years ago today. I was just a lad of four but Man's first excursion upon the face of another heavenly body touched me profoundly. As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be an astronaut-- but my mathematical abilities, or lack... Continue reading

When Atlantis lands Thursday, the famous room will seem even more ghostly. After 30 years and 135 missions, shuttles will no longer need controlling. NASA plans to turn the space into a training venue, mostly for astronauts going to the International Space Station and flight controllers working with the station. Over the next couple of months, 800 or 900 people in the mission operations division will be laid off, said Paul Hill, head of that division and a former flight director himself. "As proud as we are of our success ... I have to keep that in perspective with the... Continue reading

A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that kept astronauts flying to and from orbit longer than any other U.S. rocketship. via www.theglobeandmail.com Continue reading

Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible. via www.technologyreview.com Continue reading

One week into its last flight, the sole surviving U.S. space shuttle Atlantis is docked now with the International Space Station about 250 miles above who-knows-where-at-this-moment. via latimesblogs.latimes.com Continue reading

With its iron core and possible lava flows, scientists believe Vesta is more similar to Earth or the moon than most of its other asteroid neighbours. via www.telegraph.co.uk Continue reading