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Carnival of Space #278
Credit: NASA It’s time, once again, to see what’s got the Internet buzzing (space-wise) this week with another Carnival of Space! Today’s unrelated spaceflight image is Wally Schirra boarding the...
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NASA’s Plan for Mars Makes the Old New Again
Curiosity’s photographs its own shadow in Sol 12 of the MSL mission. If NASA’s new plan sticks, we should see the same shot from Curiosity 2.0 in 2020 or 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL Yesterday, NASA...
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The Last Words on the Moon
LM Challenger’s ascent from the lunar surface, caught remotely on video by the lunar rover’s camera. Credit: NASA We’ve just passed the 40th anniversary of Apollo 17 leaving the Moon. On December 14,...
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Jack Schmitt’s Christmas Poem
Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt (upside down) during Apollo 17′s 1972 mission. Credit: NASA NASA didn’t give its Apollo astronauts too much free time during missions. Crews had to go through multi-stage...
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Vintage Space Favourites of 2012
The Earth as seen by the crew of Apollo 10, 1969. Credit: NASA The past twelve months have been very good ones. I’ve met and worked with some incredible people, ventured into the (often awkward) world...
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The U-2 With Fictitious NASA Markings
A stunning picture of the U-2 with fictitious NASA markings. Presumably sometime in mid-1960. It’s worth clicking on this one to see it full resolution. Credit: via cloudsovercuba.com Researching the...
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It Happened in Space – Mars PropM Rovers
A model Mars Prop-M rover. Credit: NASA Long before the Sky Crane lowered Curiosity into Gale Crater, before the twin MER rovers Spirit and Opportunity bounced across the Martian surface, even before...
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Schirra’s Stellar Navigation
John Glenn trains in a Mercury simulator, the Mercury Procedures Trainer. Credit: NASA Simulators have always been an integral part of spaceflight. In the case of the all important reentry and landing...
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Looking Behind the Legend of Friendship 7
Glenn inspects the artwork on his Friendship 7 capsule. Credit: NASA Today marks the anniversary of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, NASA’s first orbital mission that launched on February 20, 1962....
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Apollo 8 and Inspiration Mars: Context Matters
The Earth as seen from the Moon by the crew of Apollo 8. Credit: NASA We have an amazing ability to selectively read history, and it’s something that happens a lot with the Space Race. We see the...
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McDivitt’s Trials With Orbital Rendezvous
Me, smiling like a goon, with Jim McDivitt. Orbital mechanics and the challenges of orbital rendezvous isn’t a simple thing to explain, particularly as a non-scientist breaking it down for other...
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Sandwiches in Space
A suit technician packing Conrad a lunch for his trip to the Moon. November 14, 1969. Credit: NASA Most of NASA’s Apollo program files are publicly available, in many cases digitized and accessible...
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A Photographic History of Our Pale Blue Dot
The Earth as seen by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft on July 19, 2013. Were the small dot, halfway down the image and slightly to the right. Saturn and its rings are in the foreground. The blue haze is...
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Starfish Prime and Apollo: How Nuclear Testing Almost Killed the Moon Shot
Afterglow from the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test explosion of July 8, 1962. Credit: US Government Defense Threat Reduction Agency Nine seconds after 11 o’clock on the night of July 8, 1962,...
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A Slideshow of Voyager 2′s Grand Tour
A colour mosaic of Neptune’s moon Triton, as seen by Voyager 2 in 1989. Credit: NASA In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft on parallel missions to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Lately, Voyager...
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Vintage Space Favourites of 2012
The Earth as seen by the crew of Apollo 10, 1969. Credit: NASA The past twelve months have been very good ones. I’ve met and worked with some incredible people, ventured into the (often awkward) world...
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