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27 February 2009
A Glimpse at NASA's future…
…Or at least at the future budget. The fiscal year 2010 budget summary was released by the White House yesterday, and there was a little bit of info about NASA. First and foremost, NASA is getting some more money! A total of $2.4 billion, counting the stimulus also. That in and of itself is refreshing. But also very interesting is how NASA’s budget is divvied up, and what that means …
22 February 2009
First Look at NASA Video Game
Remember when I posted a while ago about NASA’s plans to develop its own Massively Multiplayer Online video game (MMO)? Well, the first glimpses of the game have been made public, and it sounds promising. Some quotes from the article over at Big Download: the goal is to allow gamers to create their own content, including missions and spacecraft, and then share that with others online. “We have access to …
7 February 2009
OpEd: Beyond the Moon
My adviser and Planetary Society President Jim Bell, and founder of the Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group Doug Stetson have an OpEd in the February 3 issue of Space News discussing the Planetary Society’s Roadmap for Space Exploration. The OpEd is a nice summary, though I encourage you to look at the full Roadmap PDF too.
5 February 2009
Would You Go?
Imagine you were given the chance of a lifetime: you would launch on the largest rocket ever created, on a daring mission never before attempted. Like the arrow from a marksman’s bow, your rocket would fly unfaltering through space for six months. For six months you would communicate with Earth, monitor your progress, and fight the atrophy of microgravity. And then your travels would culminate in seven minutes of scorching …
20 January 2009
15 Awesome Space Projects
Here’s a great post from one of my favorite blogs, Web Urbanist: 15 Cool Space Projects for Today and Tomorrow. The post has a bunch of awesome images, and gives a good overview of the current plans of space agencies across the globe. Check it out!
14 January 2009
What the Ares V Rocket Could Do for Astronomy
The Ares V rocket is being designed to launch the next crewed mission to the moon. The idea is that the Ares V would do the heavy lifting, bringing the lunar orbiter and lander up to Earth orbit, where they would meet up with the astronauts who would launch on the smaller Ares I. Then the whole package would head to the moon. It’s a cool plan for getting back …
6 January 2009
Obama's Solution to NASA's Moon Woes?
Apologies for the slow posting lately. I’m paying for my sloth over the holidays by rushing to get an abstract written for this year’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by Thursday, which means I need to have something resembling results… I thought it would be worth taking a moment and pointing you at this article, though. If I’m reading it correctly, it suggests that Obama may make the moon effort …
13 November 2008
Beyond the Moon
Today the Planetary Society released a “roadmap” for space exploration, detailing what the Society thinks NASA’s priorities and programs should look like in the near future. It is the product of input from the public as well as closed-door meetings of space exploration experts. I encourage you to take a look at the pdf. The plan outlined in the “Beyond the Moon” document is well thought out and feasible, and …
2 November 2008
Obama on Space
Ian O’Neill over at AstroEngine has a really excellent post about the upcoming election and what effect it might have on NASA’s future. I encourage you to go check it out. The post ends with this video. I know that this is pandering to florida voters, but I really really hope that it isn’t just vote pandering: (Note: I had issues embedding the video, so click the picture and it …
30 October 2008
Kids These Days…
You may have heard a while back that Buzz Aldrin thinks that science fiction is the reason that kids aren’t interested in real space travel: “I blame the fantastic and unbelievable shows about space flight and rocket ships that are on today. All the shows where they beam people around and things like that have made young people think that that is what the space program should be doing. It’s …
