Hubble Deep Field: How They Did It!

I have often wondered how the Hubble Telescope was able to image the region of sky that has come to be known as the Hubble Deep Field.  This short video answers that question!  Enjoy!

Move Over Spirit and Opportunity, The Europeans Are Coming… And It Looks Awesome!

Check out the Rover that the European Space Agency plans to send to Mars in 2013.  I wish my car looked this awesome!

Check out the whole story at:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_11-8-2008-10-34-56?newsid=42354

Red State Update Does Edgar Mitchell

One Last Mission: HST Repair Mission 4

This October, Space Shuttle Atlantis will fly it’s final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope one final time.

Crop Circle Maker Caught In The Act

Ever wonder where those crop-circles come from?  Wonder no more.

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The Hubble Space Telescope Saga

Here’s a story concerning the background of the Hubble Space Telescope.

By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: August 5, 2008
Behind every pretty picture of the universe there is a lot of dirty work that had to be done to capture it.

When I was covering the space program in the 1980s, at some point during every space mission a NASA [...]

The View From Inside

This is what the astronauts see during a Space Shuttle Launch.  This is Space Shuttle Columbia from inside the cockpit on a mission in the 1990’s, before she broke up on re-entry in 2003.  I’m amazed at how quiet and professional everyone is during launch.

Phoenix Finds…Something On Mars

This past week scientists announced that there is definitely water on Mars, however, that is not the most interesting thing that the lander has found.  Apparently, it has found something else, something more significant than water.  Something so significant that it’s gone all the way the the White House Science Advisors.  (I almost choked getting [...]

Meet The Mothership

How Sweet is this!  This is Virgin Galactic’s “White Knight II”, the ‘Mothership’ for “Space Ship II”.

Looking like a giant catamaran for the sky, the twin-boom, two individual fuselages are topped by a large, 140-foot (42-meter) long stretch of wing. The aircraft will straddle and carry to drop altitude (around 48,000 feet) the SpaceShipTwo [...]

It’s Not Been A Stellar Week For NASA

This hasn’t been the best week for NASA.  First off, the sixth man on the Moon, Edgar Mitchell, went on a UK radio show, and almost made the announcer wet his pants with the news that “We Are Not Alone!”  No, seriously, “WE ARE NOT ALONE!”  Mitchell claims that the government of the United States [...]