The ESA is taking applications for science experiments to run on the ISS. Submission deadline 23 May 2014.
Vintage space suits are going up for auction, one in US shiny silver, and one in Soviet olive (although it looks more yellow in the photographs).
Space exploration has been privately funded in the United States for a long, long time. (Scared of PDFs? The NYT covered the story.)
NASA is offering cash prizes for better computer programs to detect asteroids. It’s a multi-stage contest with a bunch of different categories, so click on over for details.
The Exploratorium’s Urban Science segment this week is a video clip on how to stargaze in the city with no to minimal equipment.
Who names places on Mars? You can buy a name on a private map that is utterly meaningless, or suggest names to the organization that coordinates the names used by actual scientists.
NOAA had some fun with a Washington, DC weather forecast, including the phrase, “WE SOMETIMES SAY THE FORECAST HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. I THINK WE CAN TAKE THAT LITERALLY AT THE MOMENT”
National Geographic has a new space-blogger, with one of her first long-form pieces covering the concept of lonely planets adrift in space.
Photograph by @AstroKarenN (Karen L. Nyberg), from the ISS on 18 July 2013
