SPACE.com:
A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky. (Read More)
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from YouTube:
One Small Step - Ayreon music video. NASA Apollo program Lunar mission.
Just because I love the space program. (Read More)
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from blog:
It's not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it's a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear... (Read More)
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from blog:
Author : Loren AllenWeb hosting has increased in importance over time as the internet continues developing as an intrinsic part the global marketplace Its function is valuable even to those for whom the world wide web is not their primary financial resource, as it allows for expediency in sharing, browsing and downloading (Read More)
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from blog:
Author : Phillip GuyeGreen Screen Studios is an inexpensive video and film making system in which two frames are melded into one It is also ordinarily called Chroma key or infrequently color keying A prominent use is in TV weather circulars where the weather person looks to be standing in front of a huge graphic display (Read More)
Planetary Society Weblog:
I got a huge response from readers interested in me conducting some online classes on space image data -- how to access and process it. Some of you are interested just in being armchair explorers, but I also received a surprising number of responses from college and graduate students who are looking for some introductory m (Read More)
Astronomy.com blog:
NASA’s done a good job getting us into space, but should it work harder on convincing people why that’s a good idea? NASA photoChances are you’ll recognize the phrase, “To boldly go,” as part of the monologue introducing each episode of Star Trek. I’ve heard it called the most famous split infinitive in the English language (Read More)
Universe Today:
A hard to track piece of space junk may come within a half a kilometer of the International Space Station later today, and the NASA managers are considering asking the crew to board the docked Soyuz capsules as a precaution. The time of closest approach is at 10:48 p.m. EST, and the object was detected too late for the sta (Read More)
Planetary Society Weblog:
While I was on maternity leave I suddenly decided to see what books were out there that could help me teach my daughters (one's three years, and the other six months old) about the science and the thrill of space exploration. I bought a pile of them, finding a few that I really enjoyed. I reviewed two of them (Faces of th (Read More)
NASA Breaking News:
NASA Television will air the docking of the newest Russian module to the International Space Station starting at 9 a.m. CST Nov. 12. (Read More)
NASA Breaking News:
The transfer of ownership of the Tranquility node from the European Space Agency, or ESA, to NASA has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 20. (Read More)
Universe Today:
NASA has been creating some behind-the-scenes videos as the STS-129 crew prepares for their upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Astronaut Mike Massimino, of the HST servicing mission fame, hosts and records the videos, and this one is pretty interesting: what it takes to put on the orange launch and entry (Read More)
Design Milk:
Isn’t it funny when a timely but unanticipated exposure to two seemingly unique things allows you a new perspective where you recognize just how similar they actually are? Well that is exactly what happened when I was introduced to Derriere, a fabulous new hotspot in Paris just before I purchased the brand spanking new 20th (Read More)
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from blog:
What will the world look like in the future? Well, if you want to take a peek into the modern lifestyle of the future, you’ll hope that Dubai’s Technosphere becomes a reality sometime in the near future. Shaped like a giant disco ball, the Technosphere is conceived as a self-sustaining model of the Earth, housing office and (Read More)
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from blog:
While Google may have its Google Checkout payment platform, it’s not really a player in the ecommerce space. Considering the billions of dollars being exchanged on thousands of retail websites every year, that’s a big market that Google isn’t monetizing. Perhaps that’s why we’re surprised that it took them this long to la (Read More)