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SpaceX did it! Falcon 1 achieves orbit right on target
This is a pretty great day for any space enthusiast. Another private company has gotten off of this planet. I'm still of the opinion that while NASA's research and their achievements shouldn't be ...
SpaceX Falcon 4 static fire goes well, nothing exploded
In a refreshing change of pace, the Falcon 4 static fire went well with no large booms or expanding mushroom clouds. They did decide to replace a component on the maxim of better safe than sorry. ...
Ever wanted to track satellites in real time from your computer for free?
Well you're in luck! NASA has a neat little tool called J-Track, which you can access at the link below. Note that you'll need Java to run it (which you probably have installed) and that when you ...
Book Review: You Call This the Future? by Nick Sagan
The new book by Nick Sagan (son of Carl Sagan), You Call This the Future?: The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised, is characterized by explanations of some of the fascinating tec...
The Invasion Has Begun: Death Star Spotted Above San Francisco
Initial reports are beginning to leak out of San Francisco that a mysterious object has been seen in the sky, blotting out the stars and staring down ominously at the peaceful inhabitants of The Golde...
Designing the Singularity: Intel receives the Overreaching Statement Award.
"We're making steady progress toward Ray Kurtzweil's singularity," says Justin Rattner, CTO of Intel. THE Singularity, that's what he's talking about. You know, the point where machine intelligence...
The planet Mars enters the ’90s with it’s new web cam
That's right, the ESA has gotten into the web cam business with a simple little camera pointed at none other than Mars! While I feel the whole "look at my webcam" thing has blown over some time ago,...
Apollo 14 astronaut says “aliens are real”, pats Mulder on the back comfortingly
Edgar Mitchell is not only an astronaut, but someone who's interested in paranormal phenomena. While on Apollo 14, in addition to doing cool back flips and science stuff, he conducted private ESP ex...
Help SETI save Arecibo
Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope and the source for the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that will END its ability to continue the s...
Can we call it a constellation prize?
For those who have felt bad for our little Pluto who was stripped of its title a couple of years ago of being considered a ‘planet’, perk up, all other little psuedo planets shall from hen...
NASA’s going back to the Moon. Sign up by June 27th and you can go to!
Well, at least your name can. Head on over to this page and drop your name into the extremely high flying, very expensive hat. Technorati Tags: nasa, moon, name, yours, send, vroom, space, c...
Mars Global Surveyor snaps picture of another spacecraft orbiting Mars, protecting us from Klingons around Uranus.
Okay, it’s really a cloud, but given our tendency to take abstract patterns and glom them into something relatively familiar - we get the Starship Enterprise. It’s nice to know that whi...
