Dawn to Slingshot Around Mars

India sent an impressive probe to the moon last year. And putting people into orbit may be coming. For some years, India has been talking about running its own manned space program. Now, with a big funding increase, they are looking increasingly serious about it. In fact, they hope to start manned space flight by [...]

John Carmack’s brilliant little company Armadillo Aerospace has now won both level 1 and level 2 of the “Lunar Lander Challenge” a contest by the X Prize Foundation to encourage companies to develop new technology for moon landings. Carmack, who originally made his fortune developing the computer game Doom, and continues to spend most of [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is named for a famous (well, for someone in his field) astronomer. But, what’s (even) less  known about Edwin Hubble is his basketball career at the University of Chicago. In fact, he was a star forward for two consecutive championship teams at the University of Chicago, in the early 1900s. [...]