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Virgin Galactic Unveils Space Travel Airliner

Future thrill-seekers will ride a sleek spacecraft berthed under a massive, twin-boom mothership to the fringe of space in a design unveiled Wednesday by Virgin Galactic.
For people who have been everywhere on Earth, it may be soon that they can go beyond it. Dreaming of space flight while sipping on the ports from their wine […]

Satellite Navigation Market Continues To Soar Worldwide

The global market for satellite navigation hardware continued its scorching pace in 2007, resulting in big profits for the major hardware manufacturers, and analysts predict sales will grow more than $20 billion by early next decade.
Finding your way to your Condo Hotels has never been easier. Satellite Navigation has become less of a luxury and […]

Unmanned aerial vehicles the size of a cigarette

Researchers at Oklahoma State University are working with DARPA to deliver a sophisticated, unmanned aircraft small enough to fit into a soldier’s pocket, reports the Daily O’Collegian.
A state-of-the-art propulsion system, one that uses plasma thrusters with no moving parts, could provide power for micro and nano unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV.)This class of airplane can measure […]

Most Amazing Space Discoveries of 2007

With the airing of my new favorite show The Universe starting this year I guess you could say that I pay a lot more attention to Space News than I ever have. In doing so I have heard a lot of the stories that have been listed as the Most Amazing Space Discoveries of 2007, […]

Black Holes, LIGO, RHIC, and Oblivion

After watching the Universe this week I got pretty interested in Black Holes. Particularly the LIGO Machine that was featured in the episode in which it was said they may be able to at some point create microscopic black holes themselves. Funny thing was the first though that came to mind was that we could […]

Scientists Learn How to Deal with Rogue Asteroid Threats

One of the many fears that the End of the World fanatics tend to worry about is the chance that an enormous asteroid will eventually collide with the Earth. Many believe that is what lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and ultimately will lead to our demise.
Scientists have thought that the Apophis Asteroid […]

Jeff Bezos Building Rockets Now?

Man…I thought the G had too much power…lol
Anyways, Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos is bankrolling Blue Origin, a rocket development company with engineering and manufacturing teams housed in a 280,000 square foot facility on 26 acres in Kent, Washington.
So i guess you really can get ANYTHING at Amazon. Get some discount home theater seating, some video […]

Public Space Travel

I wasn’t even aware that we were this close to the average civilian taking a ride in space. In fact they have Flight School for these guys. There is already over $1.5 billion invested in new air transportation ventures and an estimated $1 billion in new commercial space ventures. While we have a hard enough […]

28 New Planets Discovered

On Monday, the world’s largest and most prolific team of planet hunters announced Monday, May 28, the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, increasing to 236 the total number of known exoplanets. My ink cartridges have pretty much run out lately while printing off a bunch of space pics, or more artist […]

Massive star explodes in brightest-ever supernova

Never heard anything about this until today. Oddly enough this was the first time in a while that I actually put on my lab coat and decided to look into more science related content. This was an astronomer’s wet dream. To see a star explode and and observe it for this long is not too […]