*It’s cute. Even the British think so. via @arcfinity
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/feature_cosmos.html
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“Making Use of Reduced Gravity
“At first blush, having a robot ?take a tumble? might sound a bit worrisome ? but that?s exactly how Pavone envisions a way to move about on other worlds. The idea is to make use of the reduced gravity of small …
A group of school kids launched a large helium-filled balloon into the sky. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain uses video analysis and physics equations to estimate just how high the space balloon went.
They came to Earth with the intention of invading our world. But in the end, they invaded our hearts and living rooms with the soft glow of nostalgia.
Gagarin’s single Earth orbit on April 12, 1961, made some in the U.S. desperate to recoup lost technological prestige. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes the most infamous desperation space mission – a one-way, one-man moon flight – its impact on pop culture, and the concept’s surprising revival in recent years.
Science and communism are inseparable! That is the basic message of this amazing collection of Soviet space propaganda posters that will be auctioned off on April 22. The posters have messages such as “Comrades! Soviet Land Has From Now On Become the Shore of the Universe!” or “The Tenth Planet Symbolizes the Victory of Communism!” and “Be Proud, Soviet, You Opened a Path from the Earth to the Stars!” One of our favorites is “Lenin Is With Us, Immortal and Majestic, the Thoughts, Words and Deeds of Ilyich Are Propagating Through the Universe.”
Less than a week before space shuttles start rolling out for public display, NASA’s prime space shuttle contractor gave pink slips to more than 9 percent of its work force.
The well-known creator of the PC hit Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson, announced today that his next game project will be an ambitious multiplayer space travel simulation game that sounds somewhat similar to EVE Online.