The Space Buff

For $26 billion, NASA gave us a couple of great moonlandings—and a slew of photos, all in the public domain. NASA has culled through its huge collection and posted an interesting subset...

Asteroids are all the rage. We worry about being hit by one. We talk about sending people to one. We return sample material (or hope we did) from one. All this asteroid talk makes me think...

This is very odd. Next week, a non-profit called Copenhagen Suborbitals will be testing a vehicle to launch a person into space. This flight will have a humanoid dummy aboard, not a person....

NASA photo stream of excellent...

Posted by Ray Katz on Sep 2, 2010 1

The Accidental Asteroid Touris...

Posted by Ray Katz on Aug 29, 2010 2

Danish one-man rocket testing ...

Posted by Ray Katz on Aug 24, 2010 3

Aug 25, 2010

Posted by Ray Katz

That Earth-moon photo

I know I’m supposed to be excited about the new solar system discovered by NASA’s Kepler telescope—and I am—but I can’t seem to get my mind off of that other photo. It’s the Earth and our moon, from 114 million miles away. That’s a little further than the distance from our planet is (on average) to the Sun. The photo was taken by MESSENGER, a...

Aug 7, 2010

Posted by Ray Katz

For Bill Nye: Clarifying problems with new space p...

On the blog Space News, Bill Nye (the science guy, I believe) describes his confusion as to why smart people—like Neil Armstrong and John Glenn—might not be excited about the administration’s new space plan. First of all, Bill, don’t feel bad about disagreeing with Neil and John—because so does Buzz Aldrin. This is an issue where smart people can and do...

Jul 22, 2010

Posted by Ray Katz