Getting Down to the Marrow
Patrick L. Barry and Dr. Tony Phillips, writing for N.A.S.A., on An Odd List of Body Parts – Researchers are making a list: Which parts of an astronaut are most sensitive to solar flares?...
Tagged: Astronomy and Space
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space. – Douglas Adams
Shout-out to the SpaceX Club
Did a little vanity Googling today and came across this interesting proposal (pdf) for: DSE: ALPHA (Deep Space Explorer: Alpha), A self-sufficient U.S. Space Colony in orbit around the Jovian moon, Europa in the...
Sharing The Knowledge
Karen Cramer Shea has an interesting idea: The first thing NASA’s new code T Office of Exploration Systems should do to speed the Moon to Mars Initiative is the put all Apollo documents on...
Make Room For Growth
June 28, 2004 Make Room For Growth American Military University EN 102, Effectiveness in Writing by James Landrith With the recent successes of NASA’s Odyssey and Mars Rover missions, the American space agency is...
Gazing At The Stars
First Created March 24, 2004 Gazing At The Stars American Military UniversitySC104, Introduction to Astronomy Dictionary.com defines astronomy as: The scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition,...
Make Room For Growth
With the successes in recent years of N.A.S.A.’s Odyssey and Mars Rover missions, the American space agency is flying pretty high. The disappointment of Beagle 2 notwithstanding, the European Space Agency has made great...
Rhea: Mother of the Gods
Saturn’s second largest moon is Rhea, named for the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology. The satellite has albedo features, no atmosphere, and visible ice deposits. This moon has a diameter of 1530 kilometers...
Seeding the Solar System?
An interesting scientific theory regarding the origins of life on Earth involves asteroid and asteroid fragment impacts. The theory is that meteorites containing polyhydroxylated sugar compounds impacted Earth acting as “energy sources for all...