Space Bound

Joseph Kittinger - First Man In Space

2011-05-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

U.S. Air Force Colonel and Navy Seal, Joseph Kittinger is surely one of the most overlooked figures in the early history of space exploration. Born July 27, 1928, Kittinger was a career military officer and Command Pilot and happens to be the first man ever to go into space.On August 16, 1960, a full eight months before the first manned space flight, Colonel Kittinger soared in a gondola,

11 Superb Space Shuttle Photos

2010-11-05T06:34:00.000-07:00

Check out this short but sweet collection of HD images of the Space Shuttle!

Hauntingly Beautiful Hubble Images

2010-10-11T16:58:00.000-07:00

Once we believed outer space was a black and empty void, littered with isolated galaxies. Now we find that notion couldn't be further from the truth!Through the images captured by the Hubble Telescope, we discovered that our universe is both dynamically active and very much alive!Also included on this page is a great write up about the James Webb Telescope, which not only will replace Hubble, but

NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

2010-10-11T16:07:00.000-07:00

A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone."This discovery was the result of more than a decade of observations using the W. M. Keck

Amazing Video of Apollo 11 Launch

2010-05-09T10:29:00.000-07:00

Check out this amazing video of the Apollo 11 launched, filmed at an incredible 500 frames per second. It was then slowed down for this video, which includes a technical narrative of what you are watching!

First Space Hotel Will Launch In 2012

2009-11-08T15:04:00.000-08:00

The first ever space hotel will be launched in 2012, say architects - and will cost £2.7million for a three-night stay.The eye-watering price will include an eight-week training course on a tropical island, before launching to The Galactic Suite Space Resort.During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes. They would wear Velcro suits

This Insane Photo Destroyed a Camera Lens

2009-11-03T18:37:00.000-08:00

Scientists Unveil Plan Designed To Cut Cost Of Space Travel

2009-09-19T13:06:00.000-07:00

Gravitational corridors could help spacecraft ply the solar system like ships borne on ocean currents, it has been disclosed by scientists investigating space travel. Click on the image to read about this Scientists in the United States are trying to map the twisting ''tubes'' so they can be used to cut the cost of journeys in space. Each one acts like a gravitational Gulf Stream,

Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

2009-09-01T18:04:00.001-07:00

Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground. But there is evidence of a warmer and wetter past..........

MSU Scientists To Design Optics For New Solar Mission

2009-09-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.As a partner on the IRIS team headed by Lockheed Martin, MSU will receive about $3 million to design an optical system for a telescope that could be launched on a NASA rocket in 2012, said solar physicist Charles Kankelborg. If Lockheed Martin agrees, MSU

NASA Heads Out to Sea

2009-08-31T13:24:00.001-07:00

August 21, 2009: NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have trouble getting his sea legs, but what was he doing out there in the

NASA's Lunar Impactor Loses Most of Its Fuel

2009-08-28T13:02:00.001-07:00

NASA's moon-colliding probe LCROSS lost more than half its propellant late last week after a glitch caused it to repeatedly fire its thrusters to try to orient itself. But the spacecraft is still on track to complete its mission to slam into the moon's south pole in October. The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing

Mysterious Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Tracked Deeper Into Universe

2009-08-28T10:31:00.001-07:00

Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion -- dubbed the "dark flow" -- to twice the distance originally reported."This is not something we set out to find, but

NASA Lanches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield

2009-08-27T22:54:00.001-07:00

A successful NASA flight test has shown that a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. This was the first time anyone has successfully flown an inflatable reentry capsule, according to engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, or IRVE, was

Solar Eclipses Viewed From Space

2009-08-26T23:05:00.000-07:00

Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moves across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour.Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon.

NASA Discovers Life's Building Blocks First Delivered to Earth by Meteorites and Comets

2009-08-22T18:11:00.001-07:00

The giant molecular clouds that form the stars that fill the night sky are full of organic molecules, including carbon and other organic elements that living things are made of.It's not at all surprising, then, that NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft."Glycine is an amino acid used by

NASA's Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV)

2009-08-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

If you want to do productive exploration anywhere in space, you'll need a suitable vehicle. NASA is now testing concepts for a new generation of vehicles, building on lessons learned from the Apollo missions as well as the unmanned rovers on Mars. The Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV) concept is designed to be flexible depending on the destination; the pressurized cabin can be used both for

Featured Image on the NASA site

2009-08-16T12:13:00.000-07:00

Taken August 4, 2009, this image shows the dangers that threaten missions before their launches even begin. Click on the image for a larger view along with write up and gallery containing additional images.

Remembering Apollo 11

2009-07-27T06:16:00.001-07:00

July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. aboard. The entire trip lasted only 8 days, the time spent on the surface was less than one day, the entire time spent walking on the moon, a mere 2 1/2 hours - but they were surely historic hours. Scientific experiments were deployed (at least one still in use today), samples were

Amazing Pictures of The Space Station and Earth

2009-07-14T17:21:00.001-07:00

Check out this stunning collection of images from the Space Station! Get a rare glimpse of the Space Station itself and even of a hurricane forming on Earth.A total of 12 images, but what makes this collection stand out are the wonderful images of the astronauts and exterior shots of the Space Station in large format for great visual detail!

Memorial for Laika

2009-07-09T11:42:00.000-07:00

Laika is the first acknowledged living creature to have orbited space. A good-natured mongrel stray of calm disposition from the streets of Moscow...According to a NASA document, Laika was actually placed in the satellite on October 31, 1957, three days prior to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (located NorthEast of the Aral Sea).

Recent Scenes From The ISS

2009-06-26T17:21:00.001-07:00

The images on the page are much bigger than this post, so they would make awesome wallpapers as well, great collection!

Ocean hidden inside Saturn's moon

2009-06-25T09:46:00.000-07:00

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet for an ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's Enceladus, suggesting it could join the exclusive club of watery moons in our solar system.

New Scientist

2009-06-23T08:54:00.000-07:00

This photograph was taken from on board the International Space Station as it passed above Sarychev Peak on Matua Island.

NASA - Image of The Day Gallery

2009-06-22T08:27:00.000-07:00

From the page.............In 1787, astronomer William Herschel discovered the Eskimo Nebula, which from the ground resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka hood. In 2000, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the nebula that displays gas clouds so complex they are not fully understood. The Eskimo Nebula is clearly a planetary nebula, and the gas seen above composed the outer layers of a