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Troy
Troy posted a blog entry
Toshiba New “Space Chair Project” Is Out Of This World
Honestly, I don’t have a clue how this “Space Chair Project” goes with Toshiba’s new line of...
2 days ago Universe Bot | Topics: Cameras, chairs, HD, hd cameras
 
Zath
Zath posted a blog entry
Virgin Galactic’s ‘Spaceship Two’ Offers Space Tourism By 2012
For years people have dreamed about space travel for the masses. But now Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has...
 
Boris L
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Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011
We've been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now we're doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir Richard Branson officially took the wraps off of a spacecraft that we initially peeked back in June of 2008: the SpaceShipTwo....
 
Alvin Ashcraft
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Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011
We've been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now we're doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir Richard Branson officially took the wraps off of a spacecraft that we initially peeked back in June of 2008: the SpaceShipTwo....
 
thejaychan
thejaychan posted a blog entry
Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011
We've been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now we're doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir...
 
yogijogibogi
yogijogibogi posted a blog entry
Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011
We've been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now we're doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir...
 
Jyhrus
Jyhrus posted a blog entry
The Milky Way supersized, talk about a galactic perspective
A composite image of the Milky Way galaxy which is comprised of 800,000 individual photos taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space...
 
Spudman
Spudman posted a tweet
RT @huffingtonpost NASA WISE Launch To Cap Decade Of Space Exploration: 9 Incredible Missions This Decade, 2000-2009... http://bit.ly/63bIxw
 
Preoccupations
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Charlie's Diary: The myth of the starship
"So, to summarize: yes, I think human interstellar exploration (and yes, maybe even colonization) might be possible, after a fashion. But to get there, we're going to have to master at least two entire technological fields that don't yet...
 
<em>u1f123</em>
u1f123 posted a blog entry
After School Programs
Government funding cutbacks have left some school boards strapped for cash. Unfortunately, when budgets are gone, so are vital...
 
Pauli
Pauli posted a tweet
Great Insight with Bob Grippen, STS-1, Coalition of Space Exploration on Efforts of other Nations @milesobrien http://bit.ly/7uEuWE
 
eufisica
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Portrait of a Black Hole (preview)
You have probably seen the TV commercial in which a cell phone technician travels to remote places and asks on his phone, “Can you hear me now?” Imagine this technician traveling to the center of our Milky Way galaxy, wherein lurks a massive black...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
never send a robot to do a human’s job
Over at Discovery Space, yours truly is arguing that while robotic space exploration is great and really is much more efficient...
 
White Label Space
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Visitors Arrive at the International Space Station
NASA astronauts Jeffrey Williams and Nicole Stott, both Expedition 21 flight engineers, use still cameras at windows in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space as Space Shuttle Atlantis approaches the station. high res (1.2 M) low res...
 
simoncpu
simoncpu posted a tweet
US-China cooperation for space exploration is good, but I'd rather see the US keep its Space Leadership...
 
The Trivia Geek
The Trivia Geek posted a blog entry
Truly Trivial: How many planets are known to have liquid surface water?
Image via WikipediaLast Friday, NASA announced that its LCROSS mission -- also known as "let's slam a probe into the lunar...
 
jimmiebjr6
jimmiebjr6 posted a blog entry
There’s Water on That Thar Rock!
I didn’t get much time last week to talk about water on the moon, but I think the story is a big deal, for a couple...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
wait, doesn’t an invention have to be new?
Pardon me for being a buzz kill here, but generally, when looking at a list of inventions, I expect the inventions to be...
 
White Label Space
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NASA Tweetup Underway (photos)
NASA held a Tweetup at NASA KSC this morning. You can see photos taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls here. You can track all the Twittering here at #nasatweetup as bloggers and Twitterati cover the launch of STS-129 on Monday.
 
White Label Space
White Label Space posted a tweet
Christos Merkouris: It is widely believed that space exploration is set to experience a revolution due to nanot.. http://bit.ly/3YUGBc
 
Alex Vermeule http://alexve.com
50 Years of Space Exploration - http://bit.ly/3MS625 - no idea there have been more missions to Venus (43) than to Mars (40) :-)
 
kambiz47
kambiz47 posted a blog entry
LightSail: A Near-Term Space Sail @ Centauri Dreams
As the previous posts of today have looked variously at the recent and distant past, here’s a link to an article at...
 
Ossurynot
Ossurynot posted a tweet
Only an engineer can make space exploration boring.
 
The Trivia Geek
The Trivia Geek posted a blog entry
Nerd Word of the Week: Spam in a can
Image via WikipediaSpam in a can (adj.) - Space program slang term for a passive occupant in a spacecraft, specifically a...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
who wants to build a warp drive anyway?
Usually, when I post about a scientific paper, the focus is on its methodology and interpreting its conclusions into real world...