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Obama: Commitment to NASA “Unwavering”

Even after the U.S. Budget slashed the part that committed sending men back to the moon for 2011, President Obama maintained that his commitment to NASA was unwavering Wednesday.
“My commitment to NASA is unwavering,” Obama said on a video-conference with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Speaking from the White House, Obama called the [...]

Satellite Imaging Helps in Haiti Relief Efforts

The world of technology isn’t just for entertainment purposes. We can use it in any way possible. It helps with so many rescue efforts these days that it is probably not all that newsworthy when something like satellites is linked to helping relief efforts after disasters such as Haiti. Of course it is still interesting [...]

Huge Black Hole Thought to Have Ripped Star to Shreds

Astronomers have observed that a star is no more. What they observed is that it didn’t die an ordinary death. New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes (their stellar security cameras)suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the [...]

Want To Pretend You Are On Mars For 520 Days?

This reminds me of an old Twilight Zone where a guy spent 30 days in a tiny capsule to see if he would go insane. The purpose of the experiment was to see if he would be able to fly to the outer limits (that’s a show too) of the universe without cracking up.
Starting in [...]

Crashing Cash Into the Moon

When I first started reading this story, all I could think of was “Man, what a friggin’ waste of money this is.”
After reading further, I still feel the same.
At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Cabeus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where ice is [...]

New Discovery In Earth’s Atmosphere: Solar Wind Energy Transfer

This is going to be a bit technical, and kind of difficult to grasp I would guess, but it is something that is considered quite an important discovery so I want to at least put it out there for people to try and understand. At least describe the finding and what had originally been considered [...]

Comet Dust Contains Building Blocks of Life

For hundreds of year the theory that the building blocks of life on Earth came from somewhere else has been discussed. Particularly from falling matter onto the planet from space.
A building block of proteins found in samples from an icy comet’s halo suggests that the ingredients of life could have hitched a ride to [...]

Space Orbiter Ulysses to End 18-year Mission

On June 30, 2009 the space orbiter will end an 18 year run of exploration. The Ulysses was the first spacecraft to survey the environment in space above and below the poles of the Sun in the four dimensions of space and time.
“Ulysses has taught us far more than we ever expected about [...]

Twitter Helps You Spot the Space Station

While I find Twitter to be one of the most useless and boring things out there , I guess it does have some uses .
The International Space Station (ISS) is easy to spot with the naked eye if you know when and where to look. A new notification service on Twitter will tell [...]

Greenhouse on the Moon?

Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the “Lunar Oasis” project.
“Imagine a bright flower on a plant in a crystal clear growth chamber on the surface [...]