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LONDON, U.K. - Recently I received an email labeled "Strictly Confidential" from Dr. Bakare Tunde, who said he was astronautics project manager at Nig...
www.dailygalaxy.com | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green
Astronomers may be on the brink of discovering a second Earth-like planet, a find that would add fresh impetus to the search for extraterrestrial life...
AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte turned space into his big top Wednesday, boarding a Russian rocket and lifting off on a mission that mixes a serious message on water shortages with some clowning around in the cosmos.
Laliberte, an experienced fire-eater and stilt-walker who founded Cirque du Soleil, joined Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams aboard a Soyuz craft that soared off the Kazakh steppe and set a course for the International Space Station.
The billionaire who calls himself the first clown in space paid a reported $35 million for his nine-day stay at the station, where he plans to publicize the world's growing shortage of clean water. His space extravaganza will culminate in a satellite linkup with shows in 14 cities across five continents featuring rock band U2 and Colombian pop star Shakira, as well as an appearance by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
With a puff of white smoke, the Soyuz craft carrying Laliberte and his crew mates shed its first rocket stage minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur launch facility and then disappeared from view.
Laliberte's friends and family on the ground waited anxiously and then burst into cheers when an announcement that the ship had reached orbit blared over a loudspeaker. There were ecstatic hugs, sobs of relief and chants of "Guy! Guy!"
Huffington Post | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
The Today Show examines the possibility of time travel and scientific advancements that might make such travel a reality. NBC's Keith Miller Reports:...
Michael Winship | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
One of the most valuable contributions of our exploration of the skies has been the knowledge gained from being able to examine our own earthly neighborhood from the distance of space.
Tad Daley | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
This period, where we hold this capability to destroy ourselves but before we have found a way to save ourselves, might be called the human race's ultimate "window of vulnerability."
Larry Page | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
We believe the time is ripe for private industry to assist in creating a new era of sustainable, international lunar exploration -- a "Moon 2.0."
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
UPDATED 7/16: The enhanced footage of the 1969 moonwalk has been released by NASA. Watch the video: As part of NASA's 40th anniversary celebratio...
Wall Street Journal | Rachel Dodes | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style
The handbag had landed. The French luxury brand Louis Vuitton plans to announce today a high-profile new ad campaign featuring 79-year-old astronaut B...
AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 06.24.2009 | Home
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, detouring from stormy Flori...
William Pomerantz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
A document submitted to Congress by NASA in late April indicates that as much as $150 million may be set added to the COTS program.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
Here's a truth many folks can't seem to grasp: We can't save the Earth. The Earth is going to die. It won't be for billions of years, but the end is indeed coming. What really needs saving is not the planet, but, rather, ourselves.
nytimes.com | WILLIAM HARWOOD | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With the shuttle Discovery safely away from the International Space Station, a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off Thursday...
Esther Dyson | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living
The flight suit was a long time coming -- the problem was that they couldn't find one small enough.
Esther Dyson | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
The thing that drives me crazy about this place is that there are no maps. Every week it seems that I have a class in some new place I have never heard of, and there's no map to find out where it is.
www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.14.2009 | Comedy
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Esther Dyson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Home
I just spent six action-packed days in New York, trying to sort things out for the next three months. I felt a little like a dog marking territory,...
Esther Dyson | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living
It's worth noting that the main studies for both the Challenger and the Columbia 17 years later focused on the NASA decision-making culture as the ultimate culprit.
Esther Dyson | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living
I can now parse routing diagrams so complex that I would never have paid attention to them in the past. Now I rely on them to set up comm links.
Esther Dyson | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living
Snow gets in your tires They asked me how I knew my black bike was true, I of course replied, something here inside cannot be denied. They said someda...
Keith Thomson | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
A computer video circulating the internet has rekindled fears that an asteroid will hit Earth and send mankind the way of the brontosaurus. Based on NASA projections, there is indeed a chance of this.
Esther Dyson | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living
You wouldn't believe it based on the traffic, but most Muscovites don't have cars. The challenge is the kilometer-plus from the Prophy (where I live) to the gate of Star City.
Esther Dyson | Posted 01.27.2009 | World
I'm sitting here in Star City, training to be a cosmonaut, and I was sure I would have the time to write a blog after classes every day from 9 to 6. Now's the time to get serious about it.
Daily Telegraph | David Millward | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home
Sydney could be only two and a half hours away and it could take less time to get to Tokyo than it does to take a train from London to Manchester. Wa...
NY Times | SOMINI SENGUPTA | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home
NEW DELHI -- India was preparing to launch its first unmanned space ship to the moon early Wednesday, part of an effort to assert its power in space a...
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globalpost.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | World