mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2009 | space, moon, mars, water
Water detected all over the moon - not just the poles. And large ice sheets just below the surface on Mars.
Quoted: Recent data from three spacecraft provide clear evidence of lunar water, while a Mars orbiter discovers huge ice sheets buried on the Red Planet. Read this blog post by William Harwood on The Space Shot.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2009 | space, project, mit, camera, gps
MIT students send a weather balloon into space (93,000 ft) taking pictures continuously. Total budget: $150!
Quoted: This page shows pictures from our project to send a balloon into space. 1337arts - space photography and aerial photography using a high-altitude balloon.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 07 2009 | sound clips, 2001, space
Quoted: Listen to the sound bite: I'm sorry Dave. HAL refuses a request.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 13 2009 | space, internet, twitter, mike massimo
Interesting background on the first Tweet from space. Apparently, it was an email relay, and twittered from mission control ... because space crews don't really have reliable internet access.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 13 2009 | space, twitter, mike massimo
First space twitterer!
Quoted: Astronaut Biography: Michael J. Massimino
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 11 2009 | apollo, space, images, google, photos
Apollo 11 picture from Life Magazine - hosted by Google.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 01 2009 | design, space, windows
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2009 | mit, google, x-prize, lunar, moon, robotics, space
The "MIT" team competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize.
Quoted: Next Giant Leap specializes in exploration space craft design and operation.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 24 2008 | space, esther dyson, simonyi
Esther Dyson is the backup astronaut for Charles' 2nd space flight - March 2009.
Quoted: now in a spacesuit
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 05 2008 | space, news, elevator, nanotubes, carbon
Quoted: LiftPort Group of Space Elevator Companies - Building the world's first Space Elevator - Site includes information about carbon nanotubes, robotics, and the space elevator.
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