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NASA

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Welcome to Third Rock, NASA's New Radio Station

    ​Satellite radio got some new competition from a little old outfit called NASA when the government agency went live Monday with its new internet radio station, Third Rock. The station is described in NASA's press release as "crafted specifically to speak the language of tech-savvy young adul ... More >>

  • News

    June 16, 2011

    Perry's Prayerapalooza Sparks Protests: Gov's gathering proves controversial

    ​Satellite radio got some new competition from a little old outfit called NASA when the government agency went live Monday with its new internet radio station, Third Rock. The station is described in NASA's press release as "crafted specifically to speak the language of tech-savvy young adul ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    The Job Problem

    Readers weigh in on "Intelligent Life."

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Space Shuttle Discovery: Five Notable Missions, For Better Or Worse

    Godspeed, Discovery​The space shuttle Discovery headed to the pad yesterday for its last trip into space.The 26-year-old craft has seen a lot in its career, some good, some bad, some odd. Here are five highlights:5. Being used as an old-folks' tour busIn 1998 Discovery took John Glenn up to space ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Rockets' Power Dancer Tryouts, Featuring A NASA Engineer

    Photo by Paula BeltránRachel Snow, Geneva Gordon, Yvette Nguyen (L-R) at the tryouts​The Rockets Power Dancer final auditions were in full swing Tuesday night: oh the glamour, the perfectly-sculpted legs ... the NASA engineer adjusting her hot shorts?Yup."I'm an engineer at NASA, so when I'm not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    See Your Tax Dollars At Work: The Space Station Flying Over Houston

    Photo courtesy NASA​This week will be a great one for seeing the International Space Station -- especially tonight, NASA says.Assuming the night sky stays clear, the ISS will be visible for three minutes starting at 6:09 p.m.Look five degrees above north-northwest and track it as it heads to 11 de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    NASA Wants To Know Where To Point Its Mars Camera; We've Got Ideas

    So NASA is apparently taking public suggestions for where to point the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. No doubt the agency is anticipating a slew of requests for Victoria Crater or Olympus Mons, and I salute such educational endeavor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Used Space Shuttles Now Almost ONE-THIRD Off!!! And That's Not All!!!

    ​NASA announced today that the cost of buying a used space shuttle for display in your museum, educational facility or backyard has dropped from $42 million to the low, low, low price of just $28.8 million!!And that's not all!!The delivery of these fine, almost one-of-a-kind vehicle has been moved ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    NASA Still Struggling With The Whole Pee-Drinking Thing (And Who Can Blame Them?)

    ​NASA, which is bound and determined to turn its astronaut corps into a bunch of watersports enthusiasts, has hit another roadblock.The hugely expensive ($250 million!) system on the space station that is supposed to magically make urine drinkable (or, we guess some fetishists might say, even more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Newest Report Not Great News For NASA; Time To Think "Outside The Box," As They Probably Still Say There

    ​The long-awaited report on NASA's future has come out and, as expected, it's bad news for anyone hoping for a return to the moon."Panel Says NASA Should Skip Moon, Fly Elsewhere" is the headline on AP's report:Norman Augustine, chairman of the White House-appointed panel reviewing the agency's sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Shoot the Moon: A Playlist for Today's Lunar Bombing

    In case you were asleep this morning when it happened, we bombed the moon. Twice!​Our unprovoked attack upon our unsuspecting orbital neighbor was ostensibly for purposes of locating water particles in the dust cloud kicked up by the impact, but really, we're pretty sure it's the end result of so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    NASA's Biggest Job On This Shuttle Flight: Milking Publicity

    ​The latest space shuttle mission opens up a new, bold era in NASA history -- the desperate attempt to remain hip and relevant and therefore worthy of federal budget dollars.Commentators have pointed out how the agency seems to be embracing pop culture, but it seems to be getting to the point ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Houston 101: Neighborhood Of Astronauts

    ​Nowadays, being an astronaut just doesn't have the cachet it once did. But back in the 1960s, astronauts were celebrities, and an obscure neighborhood near Clear Lake was their Beverly Hills.Timber Cove was a development of what today would be considered smallish homes -- no McMansions here -- on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    The Five Worst Movies Being Shown On The International Space Station

    ​Maybe this has come out before -- the list seems to be a year old -- but we noticed today a story in the British paper The Guardian about the list of DVDs NASA has provided to the International Space Station.The actual list is here, released under the Freedom of Information Act. Movies are appare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    The Moon Landing, In Sharp Newly Restored Video

    Photo courtesy NASAScore one for the British press.We mentioned a while back that a London paper was reporting that NASA had discovered and restored tapes of the moon landing that had been missing for 40 years.The timing seemed highly coincidental, but it's true. And NASA just now has released the r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Five Best Apollo 11 Myths

    Photo courtesy NASAA salute to Mr. JablonskiHey, guess what!! Monday brings the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing!!Oh, you heard? Well, get ready to hear more -- this weekend and Monday will no doubt be a "One small step for man" marathon.Which is fine -- the moon mission was a crazy, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Slainte -- Let The Pee-Drinking Begin!

    Photo by bobbymondToday NASA made history again, breaking down barriers: For the first time (that we know of), astronauts drank their own urine in space.The piss was said to be "purified" and "recycled" and all that, but the bottom line is the bottom line: They might as well sign up for this website ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Tonight: Will NASA Discover A Sense Of Humor?

    Photo courtesy The Colbert ReportTonight's the night!On tonight's Colbert Report, the nation will learn whether NASA has a sense of humor or not.They famously had a contest to name the new node on the space station; they didn't take any of our suggestions. But Colbert's fans put him over the top thr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Further Breakdown Of The Chron Cuts

    Photo by Lori GreigIt might seem like we're harping on the recent round of layoffs at the Houston Chronicle just because we're journalists too ("Hey, how come you don't do ten posts about the layoffs at Schlumberger!!"), but -- as we've said before -- we perhaps naively hold to the thought th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    The Distillery: N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit of Apollo

    Truth be told, we envy N.A.S.A.'s bumptuous production acumen almost as much as we envy principal astronauts Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon the depths of their Rolodexes - even if, somehow, they couldn't rope Lil Wayne into their genre-mashup free-for-all. Seriously - as you'll see below - N.A.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    See Yourself On TV From Space!

    Photo courtesy NASAHere's something neat from NASA that will let you while away your cubicle hours waiting for the corporate ax to fall: live shots of Earth from the space station.The International Space Station will be streaming live video from external cameras seven days a week at this website. Th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    “Creating Space City, USA”

    “Houston…the Eagle has landed.”

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    NASA Killed A Cancer Cure, Suit Alleges

    The world may have known a cure to cancer ... if only that darn Columbia space shuttle didn't disintegrate over Texas six years ago and if only NASA had been a little more careful taking care of the cargo and debris that landed back on earth.At least that's what a Pennsylvania company is arguing.Acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Tell NASA Where You Want Hubble to Point

    Hot on the heels of a new report from the Baker Institute suggesting NASA concentrate on improving conditions here on Earth and postpone all this "outer space" foolishness, NASA has come up with yet another neat little thing to help reignite enthusiasm for what it does. We say "yet another" in refe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    NASA's Ongoing Pee-Drinking Problem

    Once again, we learn via the Houston Chronicle, NASA is having trouble getting its astronauts to drink piss.It's apparently not because they think the idea is disgusting; it's because they can't get their pee-cleansing machine to work.The Urine Processor Assembly has been balky ever since it was ins ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    Trouble Brewing Between NASA And Obama

    All is not smooth in the relationship between NASA an incoming president Barack Obama.Not smooth at all, unless you count red-faced screaming fits by the head of NASA, his demands to speak directly to Obama, and his telling the person handing NASA for the president-elect's transition team she is not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Highest-Ranking NASA Woman Ever Prepares For Re-Entry To Private Life

    Shana Dale, the highest-ranking woman in NASA history, is leaving the agency after three years as second-in-command.NASA's press release on the subject said she announced the decision today, but readers of her blog were tipped off about it last week. (Clearly, we were not readers of her blog.)Dale s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Woman Puts Bag Down For One Second, Loses It (In Space)

    Has anyone seen my bag? It was here a minute ago. I swear to Christ, I put it down for one second, turned around and the next thing you know...it's drifting aimlessly into the great void of space. Its circuit's dead. There's something wrong. Can you hear me, Little Bag? Can you hear me, Little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    NASA At 50: Five Bad Astronaut Movies

    Has anyone seen my bag? It was here a minute ago. I swear to Christ, I put it down for one second, turned around and the next thing you know...it's drifting aimlessly into the great void of space. Its circuit's dead. There's something wrong. Can you hear me, Little Bag? Can you hear me, Little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Other Ways NASA Could Have Fixed Their New Moon Rocket

    Has anyone seen my bag? It was here a minute ago. I swear to Christ, I put it down for one second, turned around and the next thing you know...it's drifting aimlessly into the great void of space. Its circuit's dead. There's something wrong. Can you hear me, Little Bag? Can you hear me, Little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2008

    NASA's New Moon Rocket Questioned Again

    Has anyone seen my bag? It was here a minute ago. I swear to Christ, I put it down for one second, turned around and the next thing you know...it's drifting aimlessly into the great void of space. Its circuit's dead. There's something wrong. Can you hear me, Little Bag? Can you hear me, Little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Pee For Me, Please

    Has anyone seen my bag? It was here a minute ago. I swear to Christ, I put it down for one second, turned around and the next thing you know...it's drifting aimlessly into the great void of space. Its circuit's dead. There's something wrong. Can you hear me, Little Bag? Can you hear me, Little ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 20, 2007

    Frenchie's Italian Restaurant

    Has anyone seen my bag? It was here a minute ago. I swear to Christ, I put it down for one second, turned around and the next thing you know...it's drifting aimlessly into the great void of space. Its circuit's dead. There's something wrong. Can you hear me, Little Bag? Can you hear me, Little ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 1, 2007

    Ballunar Liftoff Festival

    NASA hosts 100-plus hot air balloons

  • Film

    September 20, 2007

    In the Shadow of the Moon

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    Mint Condition

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    Someone Cut the Wires on Our Space Equipment? Time to Head to the Bar. Unless, of Course, You Were Wanting to Have Sex...

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2007

    Wonder If Texas Monthly Will Run a "Drunk Astronaut" Cover

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2007

    Rocket Scientists Can't Spell

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2007

    Space Case

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2006

    Totally Spaced

    See red skies at night in Roving Mars

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    See red skies at night in Roving Mars

  • News

    July 21, 2005

    Birthday Surprise

    Preservationists get help in the oddest way

  • Culture

    May 26, 2005

    Off the Beaten Path

    Get a taste of the old Kemah's salty flavor at these classic eateries

  • News

    September 2, 2004

    Not Rocket Science

    NASA can get political -- for Tom DeLay

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2002

    Space Center & Me

    Or, how I learned to stop caring and accept the dumb

  • Best of Houston

    September 26, 2002

    Best Sporting Goods Store

    Sun & Ski Sports

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best New Downtown Bar

    Grasshopper/Red Lights

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    Science Friction

    Architect Constance Adams designed an inflatable house that could take American astronauts to Mars. NASA wants to build it, but Congress keeps bursting the bubble.

  • Culture

    January 26, 1995

    Moon Shots

    At the MFA, lunar imagery blurs the line between science and art

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