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Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan . The eight people who greeted her didn’t quite understand...
Had enough of Powers of 10 ? Then check out Universcale , a site that’s a promo for Nikon, but also features some compelling and wonderful illustrations of the...
Wait, remember when I said that Zolt Levay has the coolest job in the world , making images from Hubble data? Scratch that, now Mike Massee at XCOR Aerospace...
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I got to go to a conference on soil mechanics. It’s not as bad as it sounds; My dad has a PhD in soil mechanics, so I learned...
The Voyager spacecraft had their famous galactic greetings on board, with the map offering detailed instructions for any aliens who wanted to invade Earth, the...
As a lifelong supporter of the idea of private space travel, I’m so thrilled to see Burt Rutan claim the Ansari X Prize . Now I have to work on having hundreds...
GRIN : Great Images in NASA, a library of spectacular photography, courtesy of our space program. Don’t let the people who support NASA on military grounds see...
Oh yeah, of course Dan , the King of Trivia, dug up the photo of Mir I was babbling about earlier. He protests that Mir really only looks bad on the inside, but...
Oh please, oh please, oh please . Let’s not let those damned Martians win this time.