Here’s a rather interesting way to launch your own personal satellite into orbit using Interorbital System’s TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit. For a price of $8,000, you get a basketball-sized tube and launch to 192 miles above earth into “low orbit”. Y ...
Here’s a cool pic of a real rocket launch, close-up by a photographer who setup a sound-activated camera. His camera lens was destroyed but the picture was salvaged. And yes, picture is worth a thousand words for sure.
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I just got pinged from @SpaceAstro on my Twitter feed, NASA’s Expedition 21 is like launching launched as I write this blog post, take a look on NASA TV if you care for big launches!
I took some quick screenshots of the Expedition 21 taking off for those of you who missed i ...
The first plant on the Moon could be this one, it is the work of two organisations, Odyssey Moon and the Paragon Space Development Corporation, their combined goal is to go after the Google Lunar X Prize worth $30 million!
The plan is to get this self contained capsule to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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Make sure to tune into NASA TV today (3PM PST) for live view of the Phoenix landing on Mars!
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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 a ...
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 t ...
