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NASA’s new Spacesuits look more like a Body-Builder!

by max on June 13th, 2008
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Check out the new spacesuits (on the right) that NASA has been working on. It definitely looks more like a body builder now when you wear one. NASA just awarded its future spacesuit contract to Oceaneering International. The US firm must now design, test, and produce two suits — the default suit (pictured after the break) worn on-board for launch and landing and a second, more v ...

Google’s Co-Founder Sergey Brin invests in Future Space Fli ...

by max on June 12th, 2008
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Yey, let’s see if Sergey can take himself to space soon with his $5 Million investment. A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures’ 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight. Space Adventures plans to announce the flight and Mr. Brin� ...

Phoenix Mars Mission - Images from Mars!

by max on May 26th, 2008
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Wow, check out these images from Mars. It looks like a barren desert to me. We even spotted this alien thingee here: What the heck is that??? via arizona.edu .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } .gallery img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } .gallery-caption { margi ...

Mars Phoenix Landing LIVE today on NASA TV!

by max on May 25th, 2008
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Make sure to tune into NASA TV today (3PM PST) for live view of the Phoenix landing on Mars! via make ...

Virgin Galatic, 3 Hour Space Travel, ready for reservations, can ...

by max on March 18th, 2008
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I first saw an article about Virgin’s Richard Branson on Wired magazine couple months ago. Virgin announced that it was launching a public service where people can experience zero-gravity. Basically, Virgin is taking space travel into reality for normal people like you and me. Anyways, I was SiteHoppin’ along for some random Entrecard tech blogs and found a blog post that ...

NASA creates flying telescope

by David Allen on December 12th, 2007
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This is an attempt to get some great images from space, but without the costs involved by maintaining the Hubble telescope in space, which is great but hugely expensive. This forms part of the NASA Origins program and by working with the DLR who are the German Aerospace Centre they have developed a flying telescope inside a Boeing 747SP. This will fly at 47,000 feet and should some real ...

Millennium Falcon Joystick

by David Allen on December 8th, 2007
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This is no ordinary joy stick as is comes with a four great games stored on the memory. The games are a light sabre duel, assault on Hoth, flying an x-wing and finally the battle of Endor, plenty of action for any Star Wars fan. Priced at $25 Source [Urban Outfitters] ...

DIY balloon sent up 30km

by max on October 28th, 2007
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a href=”http://vimeo.com/359554/l:embed_359554″>Launch and Retrieval from natrium42 on Vimeo.Check out this DIY Balloon that made it 30km! High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low. It is an excellent hobby for people fascinated by space flight and telerobotics and has many learning aspects — from ...

Maker Faire Live Blogging - ALAVs by Jed Berk!

by max on May 20th, 2007
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out these Cool ALAVs (Autonomous Light Vessels) by Jed Berk! Tight! It uses Sun Microsystems SunSpot microcontroller, which can be programmed in Java. I like this idea since there’s a lot of Java embedded processors out there but this ones from the creators. Jed tells me that all the ...

It’s a chair but not as we know it

by David Allen on May 15th, 2007
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At first glance this contraption looks slightly rude, in what way I am not completely sure, but having read about the Solar System Chair it appears to be the cutting edge design for furniture, even though it does look somewhat uncomfortable. The solar system part of this chair has nothing to do with technology of gadgetry but in fact if you study it closer, the red balls represent the p ...