Space & Spaceflight

Nasa Admits Mars Spirit Rover Won’t Be Moving Again

After getting bogged down in sand, and damaging its two right wheels, all is not looking good for the Mars Spirit Rover. Nasa’s admitted it will be stuck in its rut for all eternity, with little hope of moving it. https://gizmodo.com/mars-spirit-rover-suffers-another-setback-with-second-w-5422271 Part of the massive $900m Mars Exploration Rover program, the little Spirit Rover hasn’t…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

What Would Happen if You Fell Into a Black Hole?

Noted astrophysicist and all-around likable nerd Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains in this video the effects of a black hole on the human body. Spoiler: You would die a horrible death, but the cause is hilariously named. [YouTube via Twitter]

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Keep Dreaming Edition

In today’s Remainders, a buncha dreamers: too many people read too much into a fake Apple tablet ad; DARPA, having loved Avatar, casts about for 3D surveillance; a new B&O TV that will cost more than $10,000, and more. Ad Busters A few very serious people have been taking this very fake Apple tablet ad…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Space Shuttle Destroyed in Orbit, At Least in This Video

An amateur special effects creator going by The Faking Hoaxer on YouTube has been uploading some seriously realistic videos of events such as UFO visits and the destruction of the Space Shuttle. They’re pretty amazing. He’s got a bunch of videos up on his channel, so be sure to check em all out. [YouTube via…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

The New NASA: When In Doubt, Privatize?

The WSj is reporting this evening that the Obama Administration, in an attempt to get NASA doing more space and environmental stuff, will float the idea of using private companies to ferry astronauts into space, among other things. The policy change, described as controversial by those in the know, will be included in the Administration’s…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

NASA’s Top Dude Wants Us To Get High Again

Current NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden, speaking a few weeks ago at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, explained how our nation’s space program is at a crossroads and pledged to continue manned missions into space. A combination of the federal budget deficit and a number of successful unmanned space endeavors—think Hubble,…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Man to Break Sound Barrier Jumping from Edge of Space

This man—looking as badass as Ed Harris in The Right Stuff—is Felix Baumgartner. He actually has The Right Stuff: The cojones to reach the edge of space in a weather balloon. Up to 120,000 feet—and then jump. Baumgartner will join United States Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger as the only man to jump from near…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

ISS Astronauts Get Ultimate Wireless Network, Send First Tweet From Space

ISS Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer has sent the first tweet from space. Did he use his pointy nipple antennas to transmit data back to Earth? No. According to NASA, he used the “ultimate wireless connection”, which actually is quite clever. The new network is called Crew Support LAN, a software update that allows astronauts to…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

We Are Just a Tiny Station in the Milky Way Subway Map

Harvard postdoctoral fellow Samuel Arbesman has created this beautiful subway map of our home galaxy, based on the original modern subway map—Harry beck’s London tube. Can you spot the Sun? Zoom in. Yes. We are Sol, a small station with no transfers. Arbesman, who designed the map after re-reading Carl Sagan Contact’s references to a…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

FREE: NASA Space Shuttle Engines

Since no one wanted to buy the space shuttles when NASA first offered them up for sale, the agency has decided to slash the price to a more modest $28.8 million each. And the engines? Free (pay only S+H). Discovery is already headed to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, but those other two? Atlantis…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Jules Verne Was (Almost) Right

If John Hunter—a former physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—is successful, the International Space Station may start receiving their supplies from a cannon. No, it’s no joke. First postulated by Jules Verne in his novel From the Earth to the Moon, the idea of space cannons is not new. Many engineers have toyed with the…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

In today’s Remainders: HP and Microsoft have their heads in the clouds; XBox 360 gets pedal power; Clear gives you new ways to enjoy WiMax; and Drake’s Equation explains why you’re alone in the Universe. Cloud City Hewlett Packard and Microsoft have announced a new partnership, pledging to spend $250 million over the next three…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Cocaine Found in NASA Shuttle Work Area

It looks like it takes more than passion and drive to stay up all hours of the night working on the space shuttle. NASA has discovered a bag with cocaine residue in the Discovery hanger in Cape Canaveral. The bag was discovered Tuesday when a shuttle worker spotted it outside a bathroom and reported it…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

IMAX Hubble 3D Trailer: Avatar What?

This trailer is unbelievable, you guys. IMAX Hubble 3D is the story of the Hubble repair, and the visuals are stunning beyond any teal fantasy jungle you could imagine. Just watch it. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/filming-hubble-repair-practice-underwater-5272399

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz

570-Megapixel Digital Camera Is the Mother and the Father of All Cameras

Dark energy Peeping Toms rejoice, because Fermilab has created the gadget to catch it: A $35 million, car-sized digital camera, with 74 CCD sensors in it. It will take 570-megapixel photos of the Universe. The resulting sensor is one meter in diameter, covering a 2.2-degree field of view. The images are so big that, even…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

India Developing ‘Kill Vehicle’ to Knock Enemy Satellites Out of the Sky

With perennial foe Pakistan always teetering on the brink of political collapse and neighboring superpower China taking strides into space technology, India has announced that it is developing an exo-atmospheric “kill vehicle” that will knock enemy satellites out of orbit. The program was proudly announced as part of India’s ballistic missile defense program, a division…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

What Is This?

Although this is how I imagine it, this is not a macro shot of my skin after a night packed with deliciously fatty foods and good whiskey. But even after knowing what it is, I find it just as gross. According to the HiRISE Operations Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson, these are…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

God’s Desktop Picture

What’s even more amazing and humbling than the latest Hubble ultra-deep field image? This newly-released, panoramorgasmic 3.4-megapixel-wide space image, encompassing “12 billion years of cosmic history” in thousand of galaxies at different stages of evolution. The first of its kind: https://gizmodo.com/new-hubble-ultra-deep-field-image-will-inspire-you-toda-5421703 Click to get the full definition image The image was created using two cameras…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Hubble Shows Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen

Want to see something old? Something really old? Take a gander at this shot, which shows galaxies between 12.9 and 13.1 billion years old. For reference, the universe is estimated to be about 13.5 to 14 billion years old. The images here were taken during August 2009 over the course of 4 days and 173,000…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

The Sun Is Vomiting Iron

A series of solar eclipse—on 2006, 2008, and 2009—have allowed scientist to take these beautiful images of the Sun’s corona, the first ones in history that show a phenomenon called the Iron Line. The iron line is made of highly ionized iron, called Fe XI 789.2 nm. The iron spewing reaches an extremely far distance—an…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Nasa Admits Mars Spirit Rover Won’t Be Moving Again

What Would Happen if You Fell Into a Black Hole?

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Keep Dreaming Edition

Space Shuttle Destroyed in Orbit, At Least in This Video

The New NASA: When In Doubt, Privatize?

NASA’s Top Dude Wants Us To Get High Again

Man to Break Sound Barrier Jumping from Edge of Space

ISS Astronauts Get Ultimate Wireless Network, Send First Tweet From Space

We Are Just a Tiny Station in the Milky Way Subway Map

FREE: NASA Space Shuttle Engines

Jules Verne Was (Almost) Right

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Cocaine Found in NASA Shuttle Work Area

IMAX Hubble 3D Trailer: Avatar What?

570-Megapixel Digital Camera Is the Mother and the Father of All Cameras

India Developing ‘Kill Vehicle’ to Knock Enemy Satellites Out of the Sky

What Is This?

God’s Desktop Picture

Hubble Shows Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen

The Sun Is Vomiting Iron

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