Subject: Space Technology

• “Creating Space City, USA”

  “Houston…the Eagle has landed.”

  February 19, 2009

• We Truly Do Live in a Spaced City

  February 6, 2007

• We're All Gonna Die!

  November 17, 2006

• Too Much Space

  May 7, 2007

• Houston, We Have an Unoriginal Headline

  May 31, 2007

• Shuttle Cock

  July 5, 2007

• A Blast From Calexico's Past Blasts Into Space

  June 11, 2008

• Pee For Me, Please

  July 16, 2008

• Do Astronauts Hate NASA's New Moon Rocket?

  August 8, 2008

• NASA's New Moon Rocket Questioned Again

  August 13, 2008

• Other Ways NASA Could Have Fixed Their New Moon Rocket

  August 21, 2008

• George Lucas Comes To Space Center Houston, Sorta

  Photo courtesy Space Center HoustonScience fact and science fiction come face-to-face at the "Cinema of George Lucas" and "Live the Adventure" exhibits currently at Space Center Houston. Comprised of  the personal memorabilia of filmmaker George Lucas (much of it never seen before in public), and an interactive center, the exhibits have been drawing large crowds from their opening last week. "It's interesting to meet astronauts and talk to them about how science fiction has inspired them in

  June 1, 2009

• Ike's Effects Reach Into Space

  September 12, 2008

• 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.

  August 10, 2000

• NASA Has To Deal With Crummy Contractors, Just Like The Rest Of Us

  November 13, 2008

• Take Our Shuttle Quiz And See If You're A Space Expert

  NASA is back in space, via a dramatic nighttime launch of the space shuttle Endeavour. The mission will expand and repair the International Space Station, and exchange out crew members. NASA has largely dropped from public consciousness -- at least until the "Mars, Bitches!!" program begins -- but we here in Houston take space seriously. Or do we? Take the quiz and see if you do. 1. Part of Endeavour's mission will be to install a system that will provide future ISS visitors with a cool,

  November 17, 2008

• Real Astronauts Don't Drink Pee

  Everyone is breathlessly following the latest space mission to see if astronauts will one day successfully be able to drink urine (NASA -- the kinkiest space agency evah!!)It's a bit of a comedown from the moon days.As it turns out, at this time in 1969 NASA was just getting ready to launch Apollo 12 -- which, sandwiched between the adrenaline-filled missions of Apollo 11 and 13, may just be the least remembered space mission of all time (Unless you count Apollos 14-17, inclusive).There won't be

  November 25, 2008

• Moonstruck

  July 6, 1995

• 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.According to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court against the United States of America, a company called Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. claims that its experiments involving protein

  February 12, 2009

• The X(erox) Files

  April 17, 1997

• Rocket Men

  April 9, 1998

• Space Odyssey

  August 13, 1998

• 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. The video will be shown mostly when the astronauts are asleep, from 1 pm to 1 am central time (WE PAY THEM TO SLEEP TWELVE HOURS A DAY??!!! Or maybe they sleep in shifts.)When it's not streaming video,

  March 10, 2009

• Tom Jones

  The author of Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir definitely believes they put a man on the moon…it was him

  May 1, 2008

• “Star Wars”

  Luke Skywalker and company land their starfighter at NASA

  December 13, 2007

• Ballunar Liftoff Festival

  NASA hosts 100-plus hot air balloons

  November 1, 2007

• In the Shadow of the Moon

  Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  September 20, 2007

• Interkosmos

  Low-fi sci-fi

  September 6, 2007

• Sputnik Declassified

  Web exclusive!

  April 23, 2009

• Image of the Week

  RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff

  September 7, 2006

• Mars on Earth

  Beat the rovers to Mars at the Space Center's new exhibit

  November 27, 2003

• The Real Ramona

  A book character springs to life

  June 12, 2003

• Coming Down

  A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

  February 6, 2003

• Coming Down

  A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

  January 30, 2003

• A-cute Sexism

  Plus: Firefighters to the Rescue, Shut Her Up, Hair-ied Reporters

  October 31, 2002

• Space Center & Me

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

  October 10, 2002

• Lance in Space

  Coming soon to a TV near you: hardbodies in zero-G

  September 5, 2002

• IMAX by Extraterrestrials

  Astronauts film life aboard the space station in stunning 3-D

  May 16, 2002

• No Boosters Allowed

  Flight directory Chris Kraft has a story to tell

  February 28, 2002

• Your Friend, the Germ

  Microbes are the stars of this exhibit

  February 1, 2001

• NASA Gets Weird

  March 9, 2000

• Out There

  December 9, 1999

• Man in the Moon

  Writer James Schefter

  July 15, 1999

• Press Picks

  December 26, 1996

• Moon Shots

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

  January 26, 1995

• 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. (Note: About as not, not, NOT Safe For Work as humanly possible. Unless you work at NASA.)NASA gave the International Space Station astronauts the go today to drink water from the finally fixed "Wat

  May 20, 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 small cul-de-sacs and streets, surrounded by water and trees. Astronauts flocked there.Anyone who's watched Apollo 13 remembers Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell, telling a NASA flack that reporters

  August 25, 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 where it's less like NASA and more like NASCAR -- but instead of cars festooned with sponsor decals, we've got space stations packed with publicity-generating machines.Let's take a look at what this l

  August 26, 2009

• Artist Talk: Astronaut/Painter Alan Bean

  September 24, 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 spaceflight plans, said it makes more sense to land on a nearby asteroid or one of the moons of Mars. He said that could be done sooner than returning to the moon in 15 years as NASA has outlined. "La

  October 22, 2009