Space Technology

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Makes Video for David Bowie's "Space Oddity" Video in Space

That shockwave you felt across social media this morning was due to the collective nerdgasm over a video produced by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Before leaving the International Space Station, Hadfield, who is an avid user of social media and clearly gets how to use it, put together a video o ... More >>

Burgers Off the Beaten Path: Shuttle Burgers and Space Age Memorabilia

Inside the shady dining room at Shuttle Burgers, inflatable space shuttles and cartoonishly fat airplanes twirl slowly at the end of fishing wire suspended from the mottled ceiling tiles. In one corner, a crackling television set's handwritten paper sign implores guests: "Don't change the channel! T ... More >>

Hear the First Song Recorded On the International Space Station

Commander Chris Hadfield, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, is currently on the International Space Station, orbiting Earth. When he is not pointing at the windows of the ISS and screaming "Holy shit I am in space!" and doing various experiments meant to better mankind and science, he also plays gu ... More >>

Now Broadcasting From The Red Planet: 5 Artists Who Deserve A Premiere On Mars

While it was neither a small step nor a giant leap NASA once again made history on Tuesday. Not content with just beaming music in to space they successfully streamed a song from the Curiosity rover hanging out on Mars back to the little blue orb we call home. If we're being honest we were a bit su ... More >>

Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dead at 82: No, the Korean War Ace & Icy Test Pilot Did Not Tell a Blow-Job Joke on the Moon

Sad news for NASA and its Houston family, as word has come down that the first man on our moon has died today. Armstrong was 82. Breaking News and NBC News reported the news over Twitter around 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon Houston time. NASA has its own obit up now, too. Armstrong was a part of the ... More >>

"NASA" Does LMFAO: Oh, No...

It's Friday afternoon, and you could either use a good laugh or else you just don't care anymore. Either way, do we have something for you. Riding high on the wave of good PR and general swag of the unmanned spacecraft Curiosity's successful landing and ongoing exploration of Mars (yes, fucking Mar ... More >>

Amazing New Close-Up Look at Apollo 11's Lunar Landing Site

For a bigger version, click and then click again. NASA released a picture today from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera as it passed just 15 miles over the landing site of Apollo 11. The pictures clearly show the bottom part of the Lunar Module that served as the launching pad for the Eagle.

The Fall of Sputnik: 6 Songs for a Satellite

On this day in 1958 Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to be put into orbit, fell to Earth after completing 1,440 orbits. The launch of Sputnik was seen as a major blow to the American quest for space superiority, and a significant step forward in the space race by the Soviet Union. In the ... More >>

Great New Photos of the Apollo 17 Landing Site

NASA released this morning some neat new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the landing site of Apollo 17. The enhanced photos give the best look yet of the astronauts' footprint tracks through the dust and the parts of the Lunar Module that were left on the surface.

Apollo 15, 40 Years On: Five Odd Facts (Including Faulty Peeing, A Very Irked NASA & The Coolest Lunar Experiment

The rockingest moon ride ever​Forty years ago today, two Americans were on the moon, getting ready to blast off from home. Apollo 15 is another of the lesser-known moon missions, although it did introduce the very cool moon buggy. In the past we've presented five off facts about the moon lan ... More >>

The Moon Landing 42 Years On: Five Odd Facts (Includes Urine, Wine and a Petty Refusal To Take Photos)

The flag: Better than a solar-wind experiment that just looks like a flag​Wednesday marks the 42nd anniversary of man landing on the moon. One small step, and all that. It's an odd anniversary, the 42nd, so here are five odd facts about the mission. 5. Buzz Aldrin, First Man To Piss On The M ... More >>

The Shuttle's Souvenir Load

20,000 flags and 10,000 patches aboard

Latest Space Station Video: Someone Provide A Soundtrack, Please

NASA released a nice photo yesterday of the shuttle Endeavour docked to the space station; today they've released the video. It's seven minutes or so of the shuttle attached to the station as they hurtle through space. It's also silent, and so it needs a soundtrack. Classical? Something by Yes or ... More >>

Stars over Texas

TV Party: With The Shuttle Gone, Whither Space City?

​On the latest "Between The Lines" segment on CW 39's Newsfix, I unloaded about the horror of Houston not receiving a space shuttle, now that the NASA program is over with. Hopefully Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York will make do with these retired spacecraft. It's not like any of the ... More >>

Houston Responds to Space Shuttle Shun.

Astronaut Catherine Coleman: New Video of Jamming in Space

Our sister blog Rocks Off was sent the above video, which premiered at SXSW, and we're happy to pass it along in case you missed it over there. Astronaut Catherine Coleman is a flute player; as has been reported, she has flutes from Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and two of the Chieftains with her at t ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords: Docs Say Progress Amazing, Though Shuttle Launch Trip No Done Deal

John Nova LomaxThe doctors face the press for an upbeat update​U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords has her personality back, is speaking in full sentences and has made continuous neurological improvement, her team of TIRR Memorial Hermann doctors said at a news conference at the Texas Medical Center t ... More >>

Apollo 13: The Theater Show

This is a trailer for Apollo 13: Mission Control, posted on NASA's Buzzroom blog today. The show is not a NASA production, it's an interactive theater piece that, as far as we can tell, is done in New Zealand and Australia. The show's website says: To transport you to Houston, Texas, the theatre ... More >>

Apollo 14 Splashed Down 40 Years Ago Today: Six Odd Things About It

A collectible version of the only Apollo 14 moment most people remember​Apollo 14 -- the safely numbered one after that, um, other one -- splashed down 40 years ago today. Since there were no dancing-on-the-edge death-defying dramatic escapes on this one, the mission is largely lost to histor ... More >>

NASA's Astronomy Picture Of The Day: 2010's Ten Best

For 15 years now, NASA has been putting out an Astronomy Picture of the Day, picking whatever hits their fancy from the archives or new stuff coming in from up above. Here are ten of the best they posted this year. 10. Atlantis takes off Photos courtesy NASA​In the early morning hours of Jul ... More >>

NASA's Latest High-Resolution Photo: Has Google Maps Robbed Us Of Our Sense Of Wonder?

Photo courtesy NASA​You're looking at one of the highest-resolution photos ever taken from the International Space Station, posted this week by NASA. NASA says it has a resolution of two the three meters per pixel, due to (WARNING: geek talk incoming) "using lens "doublers" to increase the op ... More >>

Why, Lord? Now They're Foursquaring From Space

Life just got better​You, like all people, just LOVE Foursquare, the web application that lets you keep up with where people you don't care about are at any given moment.Because if you don't know that someone has earned enough points to be "Mayor of Lupe Tortilla's" or some such crap, your life wi ... More >>

Space Beer: Coming Soon to a Galaxy Near You

crunchgear.comTo travel in space while drinking a beer. Another American dream realized.​STEP 1: Design a spacecraft fit for commercial space flight. Check. STEP 2: Build a fleet of such vehicles; brand yourself as the means for the common (extremely wealthy) man to see the universe. Check. ... More >>

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dave, what are you doing?

Sputnik: The Shock of the Century

It’s an insider’s view at the race for space

Asgard Heroes: The Nerd Game Of Choice On The International Space Station

A view much more interesting than anything else you'd see from the Space Station, apparently​In case you needed any further evidence that astronauts have moved into full nerd-dom from their test-pilot beginnings, you need only to know that two of the current crew of the International Space Station ... More >>

Screen on the Green: Apollo 13

Houston, ah, we have a big ass problem

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 >>

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 >>

Artist Talk: Astronaut/Painter Alan Bean

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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 >>

Sputnik Declassified

Web exclusive!

Ike's Effects Reach Into Space

Other Ways NASA Could Have Fixed Their New Moon Rocket

Pee For Me, Please

Tom Jones

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

“Star Wars”

Luke Skywalker and company land their starfighter at NASA

Interkosmos

Low-fi sci-fi

Houston, We Have an Unoriginal Headline

Too Much Space

We Truly Do Live in a Spaced City

Mars on Earth

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

Space Center & Me

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

No Boosters Allowed

Flight directory Chris Kraft has a story to tell

Your Friend, the Germ

Microbes are the stars of this exhibit

Out There

The X(erox) Files

Erin O'Shey and her friends thought the truth needed to be out there

Moonstruck

Both corny and inspiring, Apollo 13 is about more than a space mission

Moon Shots

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