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The Assembly of Space Shuttle Discovery

grouse — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:54:14 -0800

For Arthur

CunningLinguist — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:16:35 -0800

A handful of pretty great spacewalk pix from last summer's Endeavour mission.

Convert moon rocks to oxygen and other ways to earn $250,000

blahblahblah — Sat, 06 May 2006 17:04:33 -0800

The NASA Centennial Challenges: Inspired by the X-Prize, NASA has begun a series of challenges to private inventors with cash prizes for things ranging from extracting oxygen from moon rocks to building better astronaut gloves to improving personal aircraft. Thanks to Congressional approval, NASA will be launching larger challenges of up to $50 million in value, including a new multi-million dollar lunar lander contest. With government space efforts criticized by private entrepreneurs, is this the right direction for NASA?

Beep

Mwongozi — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:51:22 -0800

Catch NASA's solar capsule!
Via B3ta

From Genesis to Apocalypse

luriete — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:58:58 -0800

From Genesis to Apocalypse: one more threat to NASA's pure research funding.

Robonaut

kablam — Sun, 23 May 2004 19:17:08 -0800

Enter the Robonaut. A truly science-fictioney NASA robot. (Note DARPA.)

Moose?

amberglow — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:22:56 -0800

Robert "Moose" Cobb's new job --Under fire for its handling of postwar contracts in Iraq, the Bush administration plans to appoint NASA's inspector general to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad to oversee investigations of any alleged abuses. Cobb was Associate Presidential Counsel for Bush and before that spent nine years as a career attorney with the Office of Government Ethics. His appointment was seen as a bid by the administration to counter criticism -- mostly from Democrats in Congress -- that oversight of multibillion-dollar contracts has been lax. So can a guy who worked in the Bush White House actually be trusted to objectively investigate abuses? And if the Pentagon is auditing all of this, why use this guy? (and can the Pentagon objectively investigate this stuff either?)

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_what_is.html

stbalbach — Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:09:22 -0800

NASA thinks we can find another Earth in another nearby star. When we do, how can we possibly travel light-years to get there? It might not be as hard as you'd think . . .

Did downsizing and inexperience lead to Columbia's destruction?

tgrundke — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:30:57 -0800

Did downsizing and inexperience lead to Columbia's destruction? In the rush to cut costs and 'downsize' NASA in the 1990s the agency outsourced most Space Transportation System (STS, or the Shuttle) functions to a private consortium called United Space Alliance. Now, senior engineers at Boeing (lead member of the USA) are beginning to talk about the lack of experience, 'brain drain', and negative effects of downsizing and privatization. This begs the issue of market imperatives, relative value of privatization and the question of how to better manage projects of this magnitude in a mixed private/public arrangement.

Houston we have a problem!

MzB — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 06:23:05 -0800

Houston we have a problem! At 9:00am EST communication was lost with space shuttle Columbia. The touch down should have been occurred at 9:16am.

View the Earth from a different perspective

riffola — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:27:19 -0800

Shuttle Views the Earth: Geology from Space. Also see the Human Imprints set. [via milov]

dwivian — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:48:38 -0800

The engine canna take any more, captain! So, we're going to ground the fleet. I guess our friends in the space station are just going to have to wait until NASA is done checking under the hood.

dgeiser13 — Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:24:49 -0800

NASA Tentatively OKs Second Space Tourist "NASA and its partners in the International Space Station have agreed in principle to let a 28-year-old South African become the second paying tourist on the orbiting outpost, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday." Mark Shuttleworth you lucky bastard!

MAYORBOB — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:35:25 -0800

The romance versus the reality of man in space. According to this article, unless NASA gets an innoculation of a whole bunch of money, we are likely to be limited to maintaining no more than three longterm residents of the space station we are committed to building. How does this bode for our Star Trek vision?

zeoslap — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:07:55 -0800

Sattelite Pics of NY, here is a bigger one

meep — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 04:37:23 -0800

NASA raises funds through photographing vineyards. 5 bucks an acre? That's probably a pretty good price for both sides.

greyscale — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 10:21:47 -0800

$145 million in a search for evidence of Big Bangs! So far the popular vote indicates most are in favor of the spending--whatever the cnn data is worth. Am I the only one who'd prefer it spent on my undergrad work, or even biosciences research?

legibility — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:08:58 -0800

No longer Lost in Space. But I wonder: how much longer before a Romulan warship collides with it?

owillis — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:44:00 -0800

Zooooom in from space! Very cool views of our planet

murray_kester — Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:21:19 -0800

New York to LA in under 20 minutes?
With a cruising speed of 11,500 Km/h , NASA unveils a new plane designed to be world's fastest... Fasten your, um, seatbelts please.

quirked — Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:04:25 -0800

Millionaire space tourist rebuffed by NASA. Russian cosmonauts walk away in protest. I find the NASA decision disappointing. I wonder how the rest of the World will react? NASA's approval ratings could be better.

OneBallJay — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:19:07 -0800

All your spaceship are belong to LEEIF. Someone stole the source code to the guidance package for the US space program, including GPS. Tomorrow Never Dies, anyone?

baylink — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:32:17 -0800

NASA admits "Dreaming isn't our job, anymore."

<sigh> We're never going to get off this planet. Crap.

aflakete — Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:52:13 -0800

This picture of the Space Shuttle and the ray of "shadow" from the moon is pretty cool. I even think I buy the explanation.

Skot — Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:35:32 -0800

Mission To Mars What if we could get there in about two weeks?