A bit of humanity touches a comet, July 4, 2005
The small team still running Deep Impact, in orbit for going on nine years, on Aug. 8 lost touch with the spacecraft. Deep Impact smacked the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day 2005 and went on to swing by a second comet, Hartley 2, and then…
The most important spacecraft since the Hubble Space Telescope has been felled by a couple of reaction wheels that stubbornly held to their predicted useful lives, NASA reports.
If distant planets and their stars were this obvious, Kepler wouldn't have needed remotely the same pointing accuracy.
Something about Kepler, despite its stubborn refusal to return pretty pictures…
A video grab of the Dragon capsule approaching the International Space Station on Oct. 10. The capsule splashed down off the California coast on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (Courtesy NASA/SpaceX)
As I write this, SpaceX's Dragon space capsule is on a boat, having splashed down 250 miles off the California coast on Sunday. Monsters loom off…
My book, From Jars to the Stars, won the 2011 Colorado Book Award for History at the annual Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book ceremony in Aspen last Friday. This is particularly gratifying to me because, being the history category, it's an indication that the book is readable.
I've found myself trying to explain this…
Great news from SpaceX today: Their dragon capsule has linked up with the International Space Station. From the news release I got emailed to me a bit ago:
Dragon Becomes First Commercial Spacecraft to Attach to the Space Station
Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made history when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial vehicle in history…