Tag Archives: space
Plan59 :: Future Rocketship by Bohn, 1944
Revolutionary Rockets! | Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1944 Plan59 has lots of mid-twentieth century techno-fantasy illustration along these lines. Looking over these pictures of beautiful streamlined rocket ships (like the cars and planes of the time), I wonder at what … more…
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today ยป A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)
Walson’s Mystery Objects
Big Machines Parked In Orbit – Black Ops, Star Wars Or ET? Or All Of The Above? A young man by the name of John Lenard Walson has discovered a new way to extend the capabilities of small telescopes and … more…
links for 2007-10-20: Martian landscape photography
HiRISE | MSL Color Releases Lots and lots of high resolution images of the Martian surface, showing candidate sites for the proposed Mars Science Laboratory. (via Pruned) (tags: NASA photography Mars images landscape)
Space mirrors could create Earth-like haven on Mars
New Scientist on one of the many grand schemes floating about which might play a part in the colonisation of Elsewhere: Mirrors in orbit around Mars could create Earth-like conditions on a small patch of the planet’s surface, according to … more…
Accelerated calendar
This here diagram is the handmade record of the 96 day mission of Russian cosmonaut Georgi Grechko aboard Salyut 6, showing sunrises, sunsets, work and sleep schedules, resupply deliveries, and so forth. The word used for this species of chart … more…
Celebrating the Sabbath in space
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Celebrating the Sabbath – in space Israel’s Science Ministry has said it is investigating ways to allow Colonel Ilan Ramon, the country’s first astronaut, to cast his ballot aboard the space shuttle … more…
Improbable connections
Simple recommendation: go and read this explanation of the connection between the space shuttle and a horse’s arse at Ben Hammersley.com. I just love stories like this…
Shuttle launch cam
The next space shuttle launch – scheduled for October 2nd – will have a webcam attached to the main fuel tank, upwards and to the right of the shuttle vehicle itself. There have been webcams on twenty previous missions, and … more…
Perseids, Aurora
Impressive and fortuitous picture of Perseid meteor shower coming through Aurora Borealis, taken August 12-13th (the peakperiod of the annual Perseid meteor shower) by Wade Clark at Mt Baker, WA.