Tagged: Astronomy and Space
Beginnings of Private Space Exploration
David Windle of New Scientist on Private human spaceflight project revealed: An exotic-looking spacecraft and mother ship has been revealed by a celebrated US aerospace pioneer, who says it is the first privately funded...
Pioneer 10 Continues the Journey
CNN reporting on Pioneer 10 falls silent after nearly 31 years: What was apparently the spacecraft's last signal was received January 22 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Network. At the time, Pioneer...
Tidying Up
New Scientist on 'Space sheepdogs' could round up space junk: An aerospace company is proposing to deploy what it calls a "space sheepdog" to usher space junk safely out of orbit. It could even...
Gravity = Speed of Light
CBC News reports on Speed of light, gravity match: astronomers: Score another point for Einstein. Astronomers have found the speed of gravity equals the speed of light, just as the famed physicist predicted. It...
2003, A Space Odyssey
Alan Boyle of MSNBC reports on The coming year on the final frontier: EARTHLY QUESTIONS dogged most of the developments having to do with space during the past year: Would cosmic ambitions have to...
Commercial moon mission due in 2003
MSNBC reports that there is a Commercial moon mission due in 2003, which is a "U.S.-Russian-Ukrainian venture to send messages and remains to the moon." Anyone care to wager how long before the Marxists...
Big Bang Era Star
More cool science stuff to bore my readers. CBC News reports that Scientists find star from 'dawn of time': Astronomers have discovered what they think is one of the oldest stars at the centre...
Upward and Onward
Space Daily reports on "Speaking Out In Support Of Space Commercialization" How do we get from space stations to hotels, or space shuttles and soyuzes to space liners? What barriers exist to achieving commercialization...