Kottke: Apollo 11 broadcast, 41 years later
Jason Kottke created this page last year for the 40th anniversary – presenting it online as it appeared (same exact time coverage started) in 1969. Tres Cool!
One small step for man…
Two score and one year ago, man landed on the moon for the first time and planted his foot on the soil. That man was Neil Armstrong, and he said these famous words: “One small step for man, one giant leap for… mankind.” Wired is commemorating the achievement today in their “This Day in Tech” [...]
Wired: Virgin Galactic continues testing SpaceShipTwo
Boy howdy, I’m excited about this: Virgin Galactic has been doing tests on their new SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. Let’s hope this puppy launches before the end of the year…
Star streaming through space
Interesting link I missed the other day: it appears that a star was blown out of nebula somehow and is streaking across space — it can do the distance from the earth to the moon in an hour — and has 90 times more mass than our own sun. Now that is crazy.
Using the bathroom in space
Who knew that going to the bathroom in space could be so complicated…
Jupiter loses large belt in southern hemisphere
Here’s an interesting tidbit from National Geographic: in the last couple of weeks, Jupiter lost its big southern equatorial belt. You know, the one that contains the giant spot? Yeah. There’s so much we don’t know about planet science. Maybe one day someone will figure this one out.
Shuttle launch delayed for clouds?
Look, it’s not that I don’t appreciate that NASA is being careful about when they launch the shuttle into space since there have been two disasters with the spacecraft itself. That I don’t mind, especially when there are thunderstorms in the area or rain or freezing temperatures. But what strikes me as silly is that [...]
Space station construction timeline
I saw this on Kottke last night and meant to post it: an animated timeline of the construction of the International Space Station. Pretty neat! Speaking of the space station, the Discovery launch has been delayed until later today because of a problem with a sensor. It is delivering the Leonardo logistics module along with [...]
China in the space game
China, China, China… What in the world are you doing investing your time and hard earned American consumer dollars (and a chunk of our national debt too) into building rocket ships? Shouldn’t you, you know, be investing in military power and domestic tranquility so that when the day comes when you want to be the [...]
Satellites are all the rage…
Oh how we tiny humans sometimes forget that our technology is what’s keeping this world of ours afloat, and we also tend to forget how that technology has the ability to impact our lives on a personal level. Take, for instance, the news that the provider of satellite imaging for Google launched a new satellite [...]
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