Articles in the “space” category

Obama Calls for End to NASA’s Moon Program

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 [...]

WSJ: White House Decides to Outsource NASA Work

Posted 2 months ago

The privatization of NASA.

The Known Universe

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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Cross-section of the Space Shuttle

Posted last year, mid-October

A neat graphic of the Shuttle from NASA

A zip code in space

Posted last year, at the end of August

Construction timeline of the ISS

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