April 3rd, 2024
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NASA has been working with a robotics and artificial intelligence group to hammer out construction methods for a Moon outpost. Part of that partnership is characterizing the lunar topside to understand the Moon’s exact regolith makeup – creating a library of lunar dust and associated bits and pieces. In November 2022, NASA selected ICON […]
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The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television by Chris Carberry; McFarland Books (2024); 307 pages; Softcover: $39.95. Music to my ears…that somebody has written an account of the music of space-aged movies and television, as well as about off-Earth performances! This well-researched and thoughtful book underscores the role of music in […]
Wait a minute! Is there a possible connection between that ISS battery pallet reentry last month and an object crashing through a person’s ceiling and floor in Florida? A high-speed cylindrical object reportedly fell through the roof of Alejandro Otero’s home in Naples, Florida last month. According to WINK News – a CBS station in […]
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System by Dante S. Lauretta; Grand Central Publishing & Hachette Book Group (2024); 336 pages; Hardcover: $30.00 It is not often that a 21st century author is a milestone-making participant that digs billions of years into the past to further the future. Dante […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 4143 duties. Lauren Edgar, a planetary geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, reports that the rover is approaching an intriguing pile of rocks called “Hinman Col” – a poorly sorted collection of clasts located along the margin of Gediz Vallis […]
There’s a new mission to the Moon – one that intends to deliver a time capsule via NASA’s multi-pronged Artemis program for “rebooting” the human exploration of Earth’s celestial companion. Announced in Paris on March 21, the effort is called “Sanctuary On The Moon” and has been launched by French engineer Benoit Faiveley and a […]
Let’s face it. Looking at all those “free-floaters” inside the multi-billion dollar International Space Station it must be a cool experience. Unchained from the tug of Earth gravity, astronaut antics in microgravity are a way to take the edge off all those on-the-clock duties. But now new research shows that space travelers, free from the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 4142 tasks. Reports Conor Hayes, a graduate student at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the rover is producing stunning photos as it drives up along the side of the upper Gediz Vallis Ridge “and the pile of phenomenal images we have of this […]
(Left) Image credit: Roscosmos/Inside Outer Space screengrab Space technicians are readying the first test flight of Russia’s Angara A5 launch vehicle from the Vostochny. This flight development test from the Amur space rocket complex signals the projected start of future operations of the heavy-lift rocket system from this cosmodrome. According to Roscosmos, liftoff of […]
From the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has reawakened from another dose of lunar night that extends for some 14 days. “Last night, we received a response from SLIM, confirming that the spacecraft made it through the lunar night for the second time! Since the sun was still high […]
