New works in the public domain since 1987.
Researchers are calling for space headache to be established as a new secondary disorder after carrying out a study of 17 astronauts [I get them]
New Space Headache Category Proposed Following Astronauts’ Survey
The parachutes — the largest rocket parachutes ever manufactured — are designed to slow the rapid descent of the rocket’s spent first-stage motor, permitting its recovery for use on future flights.
Working on shoestring budgets and short timelines, duct tape and tape measures, CubeSat enthusiasts build 4-inch square satellites and then piggyback their dreams on bigger missions’ rockets.
Tiny, DIY Satellites Get NASA Boost | Wired Science | Wired.com
Right about now in outer space, three men are crouched in a node of the International Space Station, watching J.J. Abrams’ reboot of “Star Trek” on a laptop. [IN A REAL SPACE SHIP WATCHING PRETEND SPACE SHIPS. How much of my life is spent ignoring where I am?]
The most remarkable thing about Apollo 11—considering the uncertainties of manned spaceflight and the mishaps that bedeviled NASA on previous and subsequent missions—was its nearly flawless execution, from liftoff to splashdown.
How NASA Pulled off Apollo 11 – 17 Steps to the Moon and Back for Apollo 11 – Popular Mechanics
Incredible details on lost soviet cosmonauts.
The cuff mounted checklist worn by NASA astronaut Charles Duke on the surface of the moon is displayed at Bonhams on April 27, 2009 in London, England.
Four college students hatched a scheme to steal moon rocks from the Johnson Space Center. It was a crazy idea–and it worked.
173 samples of retrofuturistic design & technology
173 Radical Retrofuturistic Designs & Technologies | WebUrbanist
A part of a Russian booster rocket used to deliver a spacecraft into orbit has fallen on the roof of a two-storey home in Russia’s Altai Region, in South Siberia
The chimpanzees could sense something was different.
In a bizarre but long-cherished local tradition to celebrate the Orthodox Easter holiday, two churches in the town of Vrodandos fire rockets at each other’s churches – while services are held. [SWEET]
Have you seen this hanging up in my bathroom? Here’s a nice scan from someone else.
Once again, life imitates J. G. Ballard.
A greenhouse to grow mustard flowers will piggyback on a lunar lander being developed by Odyssey Moon, a competitor in the Google Lunar X Prize contest
Firm vows to grow first flowers on the moon – space – 27 March 2009 – New Scientist
If the space race had taken a few different turns, we might have ended up with a historical exhibit that looked like the one cooked up by the American Dream Technical Institute.
Artifacts From A Previously Undiscovered Space Program | MetaFilter
the 16 mm Data Acquisition Camera mounted in the Apollo 11 lunar module. [Have you seen this in the past? No.]
