Showing posts with label Space Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Travel. Show all posts

Friday, July 20, 2018

Aldrin and flag of the United States on moon—Apollo 11, 49 years ago:


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Monday, March 12, 2018

Elon Musk says his Mars rocket will fly "short flights" next year







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Saturday, January 6, 2018

R.I.P. Astronaut John Young









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Friday, June 30, 2017

America will THINK BIG once again. We will inspire millions of children to carry on the proud tradition of American space leadership!

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Trump To Send NASA Back To The Moon In 2019

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

RIP: Former Astronaut and Senator #JohnGlenn has passed away at age 95







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Friday, November 25, 2016

Trump Wants NASA Focused On Mars, Not Climate Change

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

NASA testing whether Potatoes can Grow on Mars

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

NASA: Dancing aurora lights seen from @Space_Station as it passes over the Pacific Northwest

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Researchers have found evidence of “streaks … formed by salty water” on Mars















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Thursday, July 16, 2015

That's all, folks! We're out of "encounter mode" & back in "cruise mode." But, we'll keep picturing a receding Pluto & Charon.







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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin lays out plan for Mars colonization in talk at CU-Boulder



'Humans need to explore, push beyond current limits just like we did 45 years ago'

Aldrin, 85, spoke before a packed house Tuesday at Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado's Boulder campus.

"America must be the world leader in human space flight," he said. "There is no other area that clearly demonstrates American innovation and enterprise than human space flight."

Aldrin made history with Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969, when the two men became the first humans to step foot on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. In total, they spent 21 hours on the lunar surface gathering 46 pounds of moon rocks. Some 600 million people watched the historic scene on television.
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Monday, December 29, 2014

Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future

Illustration by Michael Marsicano

◼ (I)n the year 2014 Elon Musk doesn’t need much of an introduction. - Ross Andersen/Aeon Magazine

Not since Steve Jobs has an American technologist captured the cultural imagination like Musk. There are tumblrs and subreddits devoted to him. He is the inspiration for Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man. His life story has already become a legend. There is the alienated childhood in South Africa, the video game he invented at 12, his migration to the US in the mid-1990s. Then the quick rise, beginning when Musk sold his software company Zip2 for $300 million at the age of 28, and continuing three years later, when he dealt PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion. And finally, the double down, when Musk decided idle hedonism wasn’t for him, and instead sank his fortune into a pair of unusually ambitious startups. With Tesla he would replace the world’s cars with electric vehicles, and with SpaceX he would colonise Mars. Automobile manufacturing and aerospace are mature industries, dominated by corporate behemoths with plush lobbying budgets and factories in all the right congressional districts. No matter. Musk would transform both, simultaneously, and he would do it within the space of a single generation.

Whatever else might be said about him, Musk has staked his fortune on businesses that address fundamental human concerns. And so I wondered, why space?

Musk did not give me the usual reasons. He did not claim that we need space to inspire people. He did not sell space as an R & D lab, a font for spin-off technologies like astronaut food and wilderness blankets. He did not say that space is the ultimate testing ground for the human intellect. Instead, he said that going to Mars is as urgent and crucial as lifting billions out of poverty, or eradicating deadly disease.

‘I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary,’ he told me, ‘in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen, in which case being poor or having a disease would be irrelevant, because humanity would be extinct. It would be like, “Good news, the problems of poverty and disease have been solved, but the bad news is there aren’t any humans left.”’

Musk has been pushing this line – Mars colonisation as extinction insurance – for more than a decade now, but not without pushback. ‘It’s funny,’ he told me. ‘Not everyone loves humanity. Either explicitly or implicitly, some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth’s surface. They say things like, “Nature is so wonderful; things are always better in the countryside where there are no people around.” They imply that humanity and civilisation are less good than their absence. But I’m not in that school,’ he said. ‘I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future.’ KEEP READING
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Italy's first female astronaut off to International Space Station

Crew members: US astronaut Terry Virts (left) Russian cosmonaut
Anton Shkaplerov (centre) and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

◼ We have lift off! Russian rocket launches to deliver three new crew members to International Space Station - 260 miles above Earth - Daily Mail UK

A Russian rocket blasted off today to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station - including Italy's first female astronaut.

Soyuz TMA-15M, holding incoming station commander Terry Virts, with the US space agency Nasa, left the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan.

Also on board for the lift-off at 3am local time (Sunday 9pm GMT) was Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov, with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Anti-feminist comet has anti-feminist organic molecules on it

◼ The probe that landed on the surface of a comet has discovered organic molecules, the most rudimentary building blocks of life, according to the German agency involved in the mission. - HOTAIR

An instrument aboard the Philae lander detected the molecules after “sniffing” the comet’s atmosphere. An organic compound is one whose molecules contain the carbon atom, the basis of life on earth.
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Women are more than welcome in science and technology, but I doubt that most scientists—male or female—welcome the arrival of these chronically-offended, humourless gender warriors."





#Shirtgate:





◼ Rosetta mission scientist criticized for wearing 'sexist' shirt - Mashable

◼ 5 Reasons “feminists” can’t complain about comet scientist’s “sexist” shirt - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
Yesterday, mankind achieved something seriously amazing: we landed a space probe on a comet millions of miles away from Earth. Unfortunately for the scientists involved in this momentous accomplishment, modern day “feminists” exist.

One of the scientists was wearing a shirt covered in sketches of of scantily clad women. Not actual photos of women, but sketched images of pin ups in skivvies. So this chick from The Atlantic does what “feminists” do when encountering the inane: she lost her damn mind. Naturally, this scientist’s wardrobe selection means women are not welcome to participate in scientific oriented fields…
◼ Gosh! How wickedly funny it was of a group of internet pranksters to whip up confected outrage over Dr Matt Taylor's harmless, if rather loud, shirt.
That's the Matt Taylor who just landed a spacecraft on a comet, by the way, in perhaps one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the decade.

...Christina Hoff Sommers, a feminist academic at the American Enterprise Institute, expresses the problem succinctly: "Feminist bloggers claimed that his shirt would make women feel unwelcome in [science, technology, engineering and maths]. What nonsense. No woman with a serious interest in astronomy would be deterred because she saw a tattooed guy in a risqué shirt."

"Feminism used to be about freedom and happiness. Lately it has entered an Orwellian Junior Anti-Sex League phase. Even the most mild sexual joke, song, or sexy lady T-shirt arouses the Twitter outrage warriors. Women are more than welcome in science and technology, but I doubt that most scientists—male or female—welcome the arrival of these chronically-offended, humourless gender warriors."

Feminism has a serious, perhaps even terminal, public relations problem at the moment. Most women don't want anything to do with it, because they know that the third-wave, intersectional brand of feminism currently in vogue is inextricable from angry, lesbianic man-hating.

These days, the one thing guaranteed to send a man running, and ensure you stay alone forever, getting porky and hoarding stray cats while learning to knit jumpers for grandchildren you'll never have, is announcing that you're a "feminist". At least, that's the popular perception and it's why so few women anywhere in public life want to be associated with that toxic label.






Order the shirt ◼ HERE.

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Friday, November 7, 2014

"Interstellar" wants to make you FEEL and THINK, and believe that mankind is more than just a biological anomaly or, yes, a blight on Gaia.


◼ 'INTERSTELLAR' REVIEW: EPIC RUMINATION ON FAITH, SCIENCE, HUMANITY - John Nolte/Breitbart

There is no question director Christopher Nolan is a gifted storyteller and that this fact has a lot to do with his deserved success. What really sets the director apart, though, is his love for humanity. Unlike so many of his counterparts, Nolan doesn't see mankind as a disease or doomed by an inevitable apocalypse brought on by man's greed and ignorance. Nolan thinks we're pretty special, and in his achingly ambitious "Interstellar" this belief once again manifests itself in more than just theme.

Nolan believes so much in us he doesn't patronize or pander with only the "feel-good." Although he creates hugely expensive tentpole blockbusters, his canon isn't watered down for mass appeal. As we saw in the last two chapters of his "Dark Knight" trilogy and 2010's "Inception," Nolan gambles big on this faith with hugely complicated (in a good way) stories that that have Big Things to say about the human condition, our place in the universe, and our unlimited potential for decency and to make better or save humanity.
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Monday, December 16, 2013

SORRY, BUT WE SPENT THE COST OF A MAJOR PLANETARY MISSION ON A WEBSITE THAT STILL DOESN’T WORK



◼ Bill Nye To Obama: Don’t Slash Space Science Funding. - Slate, ◼ via Instapundit

“In the end, the lion’s share of cuts to planetary exploration have come from the White House.”

◼ Bill Nye's Open Letter to President Barack Obama
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

30 years ago today, Sally Ride boarded the space shuttle Challenger at Cape Canaveral, Florida – becoming the first American woman to travel to space


CELEBRATING AMERICA’S FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE: 30 years ago today, Sally Ride boarded the space shuttle Challenger at Cape Canaveral, Florida – becoming the first American woman to travel to space. Ride persevered and excelled in her mission as a NASA astronaut, paving the way for women entering the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

This Southern Californian who pushed the physical and societal limits of how far women can go.

◼ H/T: Darrel Issa
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