Posted by Ray Katz in NASA, current, moon
The BBC has an excellent video of NASA’s next-generation lunar rover. This includes a short clip of the vehicle taking to the street during President Obama’s inaugural parade.
Esther Dyson, a wealthy technology entrepreneur, book a flight on a Soyuz sometime back. We wrote about it here. She trained for six months, but never flew. (Yet.) She’s still hoping to fly—seats are getting scarce for paid space travelers aboard Soyuz—and it’s pricey even for successful businesspeople like Ms. Dyson. That said, she had [...]
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) [...]
The USSR was notably silent about its plans for space missions. They typically announced their missions afterwords—and boasted about their accomplishments, often achieving “firsts.” They had the first satellite, first man in space, first space walk, first space station, etc. The U.S. announced plans and then carried them out—at great risk—in sight of the whole [...]
