If I was even a remotely sentimental person, I’d probably have a tear welling up in my eye while writing this. Today, NASA conducted what is effectively the final test burn of the reusable solid rocket boosters used to thrust the Space Shuttle into orbit. The test, carried out by ATK Launch Systems in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘space’
A Farewell to NASA’s Space Shuttle
February 25th, 2010
Posted in Science, Space, Technology 
Tags: Final Space Shuttle flight, NASA, space, space exploration, Space Shuttle 
No Comments »Inconceivable! The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D…
December 11th, 2009
The universe is big. It’s bigger than any human can possibly imagine. There isn’t really a frame of reference we can use to truly grasp its enormity. Every speck of light we see when looking at the night sky is a star contained within our own Milky Way galaxy. Beyond that exist billions of galaxies [...]
Posted in Science, Space, Technology Tags: Hubble Space Telescope, space, Ultra Deep Field 3D No Comments »Japan to beam power from space…
November 8th, 2009
Recently, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that it has partnered with several private Japanese companies to develop and deploy a network of solar panels in space. While this hopefully won’t turn out to be another space mirror, given the rise in humanity’s energy consumption it’s worth a try.
Japan, having few domestic energy resources, estimates [...]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Storage and Transmission, Science, Space, Technology Tags: JAXA, solar panels, space, space solar power system 1 Comment »Do us all a favor…Don’t mess with the weather!
October 15th, 2009
In honor of Blog Action Day, in which bloggers are encouraged to write articles pertaining to a particular topic, we’ve decided to explore this years “Climate Change” theme by recalling some of humanity’s worst attempts at using technology to deliberately alter the Earth’s climate. This is sort of a Darwin Awards for big ideas with [...]
First Suborbital Space Scientist Training Course
August 11th, 2009
I don’t know why it’s taken forty years after mankind’s first giant leaps on the moon for a story like this to emerge, but in an encouraging sign to all you scientists out there yearning for your very own trek to the stars, the NASTAR Center (a wholly owned subsidiary of Environmental Tectonics Corp.) has created the [...]
