Category Archives: Space

Space Station become a spaceship?

Posted on July 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Space Station become a spaceship?

It makes more sense to park the ISS in orbit around the moon, rather than let it burn up in the atmosphere after the space shuttles retire in 2010. Otherwise it’d just be another American space effort gone for naught, despite billions spent and years of work and tragedy. But Rand Simberg says it’s a bright idea without a future. More likely, the Russians and Europeans might buy the thing.

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The start of something big

Posted on July 29, 2008 | Comments Off on The start of something big

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The Pan Am Clippers of the 1930s were for the rich, too, and we all fly now.

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Pinwheel galaxy

Posted on July 27, 2008 | Comments Off on Pinwheel galaxy

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Almost twice the size of our Milky Way, M-101, shown here in infrared, is about twenty-five million light years away in the Big Dipper.

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The next hot thing

Posted on July 25, 2008 | Comments Off on The next hot thing

Burt Rutan is a former Misty FAC pilot of the Vietnam War who later became the first man to fly nonstop around the world without refueling. He’s finishing up a commercial vehicle for suborbital hops to space, and here shares his personal vision that commercial space is just around the corner, and what a time it will be. And more.

Via Instapundit

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Unsleepy lagoon

Posted on July 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Unsleepy lagoon

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In fact, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light years away towards the Milky Way’s center. 

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What’s Up With The Sun?

Posted on July 11, 2008 | Comments Off on What’s Up With The Sun?

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It’s been strangely unmarked by sun spots or solar flares lately. Or is it so strange? NASA says not.

UPDATE:  The Seablogger disagrees and says the next Ice Age is "imminent."

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Star streams

Posted on June 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Star streams

 

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Ghostly shadowed streams of star debris from a torn-apart dwarf galaxy frame the Knife-Edge galaxy, another sure winner for a weekend jaunt, once we figure out how to vanquish forty million light years.

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