Articles in the “space” category
Posted 1 month ago
This still has to go through Congress and a million hoops, but The NYTimes reports:
President Obama is calling on NASA to cancel the program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, and focus instead on radically new space technologies.
Mr. Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for NASA asks for $18 billion over five years [...]
Posted 2 months ago
The privatization of NASA.
Posted last year, mid-December
Both dizzying and fascinating, this Known Universe video zooms out from Tibet and goes as far through space as we’ve mapped. Full-screen this!
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Posted last year, mid-October
A neat graphic of the Shuttle from NASA
Posted last year, at the end of August
Construction timeline of the ISS