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Touch Up London #100: London In Space | Londonist. There is a great picture on this site that shows the size of the ISS. Please go take a look.

Labels: astronomy, nasa, space

KPC 1:35 PM |

ISS Now Has Live Access to the Internet | Universe Today. It is pretty cool news that we can now hook up to the internet in space. Well at least the astronauts can use it. Let us hope they have some good firewalls in place.

Labels: astronomy, nasa, science, space

KPC 10:16 AM |

Spectacular Soyuz Rollout Images | Universe Today. These are some great pictures and a nice little article on the Soyuz. The Soyuz has the best saftey record of any spacecraft and it is older than any other spacecraft flying today. I think that says a lot.

Labels: astronomy, science, space

KPC 7:05 PM |

How You Can Save The World | Visions for Tomorrow. This is a blog post by one of my favorite physicists Dr. Michio Kaku, It will make you stop and think about your place in this world.

Labels: politics, power, science, space

KPC 7:02 AM |

Public talk - online | Galaxy Zoo Blog. Tonight I went to a talk at SIUE by the astrophysicist Chris Lintott. This was an amazing talk about the latest in using the public to help in massive scientific data classification and his current project the Galaxy Zoo. Everyone should take some time to check out the Galaxy Zoo and to help with projects like this. The human mind is still one of the greatest and underutilized computers we have.

Labels: astronomy, SIUE, space

KPC 10:46 PM |

Photographer Documents Secret Satellites -- All 189 of Them | Wired. This is pretty cool. You always knew there were a bunch of satellites up there that were watching us. Now here is a guy who is watching them. Nice read if you are interested.

Labels: astronomy, space

KPC 9:28 AM |

GLAST Off! "NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST for short) left Earth onboard a Delta II rocket. 'The entire GLAST Team is elated,' reports program manager Kevin Grady of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 'The observatory is now on-orbit and all systems continue to operate as planned.' Read today's Science@NASA story to learn about some of the exciting new science GLAST is expected to accomplish."

Labels: astronomy, nasa, space

KPC 3:39 PM |

Has Phoenix Seen Ice? | Nasawatch.com. This would be an amazing discovery and part of the whole reason Phoenix was sent to Mars. I await further news on this find and what more amazing finds will come from the Phoenix mission.

Labels: astronomy, Mars, nasa, space

KPC 8:51 PM |

First Images from Phoenix | Universe Today. Here are some of the first images from Phoenix. These are quite interesting and I am sure we will see more soon. There will be a flood of new images over the next week or so.

Labels: astronomy, Mars, nasa, space

KPC 10:22 PM |

Phoenix has landed. It still amazes me that we can propel an object into space from this planet and then have it land on a completely different one. We now have another lander on Mars and it will soon be returning more and more data on Mars. This all leads up to a manned mission to Mars planned sometime in the future. I can not wait to see what kind of data will be returned from this newest mission.

Labels: astronomy, Mars, nasa, space

KPC 7:25 PM |

Douglas MacKinnon: No place for partisans on NASA, space exploration | Houston Chronicle. I could not agree more. I see space travel as highly important for our science, math and educational system as a whole. We need to keep pushing the technology and exploration. We are just now able to see some of the benefits that came from the space race. I would hate to see the next president push politics in front of science, innovation and space exploration.

Labels: politics, space

KPC 4:45 PM |

Amazing Underground USSR Sub Base Photos | Dvorak Uncensored. This is a pretty amazing creation. Things like this that were built during the cold war, are quite interesting to me know. It is interesting how we are now seeing the hidden secrets of the cold war era coming into the light. I watched a Nova a couple weeks ago on a Russian space station that was a giant spy camera. It was really interesting.

Labels: history, space

KPC 1:59 PM |