Sunday’s New York Times Magazine included a discussion of the idea of advertising on the lunar surface. This is, apparently, possible but very expensive.
Coca Cola was reportedly considered using lasers to illuminate a portion of the moon with an advertisement for its flagship soft drink. But the number of lasers needed—to be visible from the earth, and enormous portion of the moon would need to be covered—made the plan impractical.
Neat idea, though!
Iran launched a spacecraft today that put a rat, two turtles and some worms into space. Piecing together coverage from several sources, it seems that the craft went into sub-orbital space and then returned to earth. The animalnauts, we are told, are fine. Of course, coverage of any Iranian space mission is understandably overshadowed by [...]
SpaceX, a company I unabashedly love, has hired former astronaut Ken Bowersox…and put him in charge of astronaut safety. Wait. Astronaut safety? What astronauts are flying on SpaceX? Approved for unmmanned flight…thinking of manned flight Well. although SpaceX has won a contract for unmanned re-supply missions to the International Space Station, they seem pretty confident [...]
The Franklin Institute is one of the nation’s premier science museums. I’ve always been charmed by its old wing—with charming and educational exhibits retained from many years ago. A unique lunar module And, I’m a huge fan of what I call “the urban LM”, a full-size lunar module built by Grumman and donated to the [...]