Tag: "spacecraft"
Aviation Authorities Prepare for Space Tourism
Several private companies are planning to offer the public rides into space starting in the next two to five years. Aviation authorities are preparing for a future in which airplanes and spaceships will share the air.
Post on Sep 28, 2010 by Gabriela Quirós
Reporter's Notes: Do-It-Yourself Mini-Satellites
It's a classic engineering story – a garage inventor spends years working in isolation, only to produce something that gets the attention of the world. Ok, the CubeSat story may not be quite as romantic, but it does have a lot of the same ingredients.
Post on May 15, 2009 by Lauren Sommer
Expressly Venus
With all the attention that the exploration of certain other planets has received lately, I feel that Venus exploration has fallen off our radar a bit, and that it is high time for an update.
Post on Sep 26, 2008 by Ben Burress
Planetary Robotic Roundup
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury-artist concept. Photo by: NASA I've been waiting for the "whole story" on Martian ice at the Phoenix lander site to unfold more completely, but the chemical analyses have not yet run their full courses-so I've decided to widen the focus on this blog to give a status report on current [...]
Post on Jul 04, 2008 by Ben Burress
Phoenix on Ice?
A patch of what might be ice, exposed by Phoenix's landing rockets.So, did it land on ice? Huh? Did it? Two blogs ago I wrote about the then upcoming landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars, near the Northern polar ice cap (Probing the Martian Pole). The entire point of landing on Mars' extreme northern [...]
Post on Jun 09, 2008 by Ben Burress
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