BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM
A mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis announced this week that he will use Twitter from space during the shuttle's next mission in May.
If you're wondering whether NASA has some kind of built-in tweet software on ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Sep 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM
The Hubble Space Telescope has always been an amazing machine, but it was recently made even more amazing with some repairs and optical upgrades in daring spacewalks. The first pics are out now, and they're stunning.
The HST was ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jun 22, 2004 at 11:34 AM
Kudos to the team behind SpaceShipOne, the first private-enterprise manned rocket to make it to the boundary of Earth's atmosphere and outer space. Whether the three-seat rocket and its backers, who include Paul Allen, will qualify ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Today, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis spacewalked to the Hubble Telescope and kitted it with a new camera. Should everything go right--and so far, the mission has been a success--the Hubble should be good until ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM
NASA's plan to replace the Space Shuttle and return astronauts to the Moon and possibly Mars has been controversial right from the start. And now there's a strong hint that the Obama administration will directly intervene and ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Feb 12, 2009 at 6:39 AM
Tuesday saw a strangely historic event occur--the first accidental collision in space of two orbiting satellites: a 1,200-pound communications satellite in full-working order, and a 1-ton aging Russian satellite that's been presumed ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Mar 2, 2009 at 6:56 AM
That China has plans for a space station is not much of a surprise--the nation's space tech has been steadily advancing since its first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 launched in 1970. But the fact that it's planning to launch the first ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 10:54 AM
Continuing my interest in the space race today, I am intrigued by today's New York Times article about the new entrepreneurial approaches to space exploration.
While projects such as Jeff Bezos' space research company Blue Origins ...READ»
BYCharles Fishman Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Aug 27, 2003 at 11:20 AM
The report from the commission investigating the space shuttle Columbia accident is a classic autopsy of workplace delusion. It's not just that NASA played self-defeating budget and bureaucratic games, management at the space program ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jul 1, 2009 at 8:21 AM
NASA's ambitious design to return humans to the lunar surface has been controversial right from the get-go. It calls for ditching the Space Shuttle entirely and abandoning nearly all of its technology except for the solid rocket ...READ»
BYBill Breen Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Intelsat has helped make global communications work -- while struggling to succeed as an international agency that answers to many different governments. Now it's up to Ramu Potarazu, Intelsat's privatization czar, to make the agency a real company.READ»
BY Gina Imperato Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Planet 1, a new personal satellite communications lets users make calls, receive faxes, and check email anywhere in the world, without requiring access to the local phone system.READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Dec 24, 2008 at 7:55 AM
The International Space Station is nearing completion, and with the looming demise of the Space Shuttle program and significant gap before the next-gen Constellation-class rocket is available, a replacement set of launchers is needed. ...READ»
BYCharles Fishman Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Aug 3, 2007 at 7:08 PM
Next Wednesday, if everything goes according to plan, NASA will launch a teacher into space. Not just any teacher: the woman who was the backup for Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher headed for space, who was killed in the ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 98 Tue Sep 28, 2004 at 11:00 AM
Earlier this year, SpaceShipOne, a commercial space flight venture backed by Paul Allen, tried for the skies, aiming to qualify for the Ansari X prize. The team is trying again early tomorrow -- and now they're joined by a leader who ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 96 Thu Oct 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Update: NASA's 'Moon Bombing' A Smashing Success
NASA's always trying to push the envelope, and tomorrow the space agency's got a really big push: It's going to bomb the Moon. Seriously, and it's all in the name of science, the ...READ»
In the past month-and-a-half, since NASA's Spirit rover touched down on the red plant, the space program's rover Web site has logged 6.5 billion hits. As CNET News.com recently noted, that's more visits than there are people on ...READ»
BYClay Dillow Relevancy Score: 69 Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Delay followed delay followed delay yesterday, but this morning the NASA's new Ares I-X finally lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a bang. With massive smoke plume trailing, the rocket soared into the atmosphere at ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 66 Thu Dec 18, 2008 at 6:31 AM
The end of an era is rapidly approaching: Soon the skies will shake no more to Space Shuttle stacks rocketing into orbit, and the world's first real space ship will go gently into retirement. It's so soon, in fact, that NASA's beginning to plan ...READ»
It's forty years since Neil Armstrong sundered humankind's history in two: The era before the Moon landings, and after. Here are a couple ways for you to get involved in Lunar fever online today.
Walter Cronkite's Famous TV ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 66 Fri Feb 27, 2009 at 5:48 AM
Just the other day, an influential group of ex-astronauts--including Buzz Aldrin--publicly called for a new direction in the U.S. space effort, demanding more human space flight and even a Department of Space. And it's just possible ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 65 Wed Nov 4, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Remember how the Ansari X-Prize resulted in the nascent commercial space trip business, with Virgin Galactic in the lead? Now there's a similar push to innovate space technology, but of a different sort: Space elevators, making the ...READ»
Dutch AR developer Layar announced a 3D API today--but this AR headset dwarfs their Android app. The Wearable Augmented Reality (or WEAR) headset was developed for astronauts to view schematics and specifications while ...READ»
