Geckos of the Lost Ark

Ruh-row! According to this MSN news post, a Russian satellite containing some mushrooms, lizards and flies might come back to Earth in a hard, fiery, non-survivable way. The lizards are geckos and the flies are the California favorite: fruit flies. The mushrooms are just mushrooms. All of the creatures are probably oblivious to the unexpected end […]

SpaceX Falcon 9 “Lands”

This is very cool (no matter what the naysayers say). SpaceX just released a video (shown below) from their latest Falcon 9 launch of ORBCOMM satellites. Except, they aren’t focusing on the rocket’s launch, but its landing. That’s right, as they’ve said they would do all along, SpaceX keeps testing their rockets’ abilities for landing. The video they […]

What If the Sun’s Magnetic Field Flipped And Nobody Noticed?

More specifically, the sun’s magnetic field went topsy-turvy sometime in November or December of 2013, according to this USA Today post. That sounds bad, doesn’t it? But the post notes that the sun’s magnetic field flips about every 11 years. And of course, everything still seems to be working in spite of the most current flip. […]

The Ship Who Sang

There are those readers out there who will get the Anne McCaffrey reference–the rest should eventually take time to read that fun book. Unlike the book’s protagonist, a ship with a living brain that eventually sings, this post is about a satellite named Ulises 1 that will “sing” to the people of Earth once it’s in orbit. […]

Humans Last Set Foot on the Moon 42 years Ago

Yesterday marked an anniversary in space history which made the news: a man first stepped on the moon. This occurred 45 years ago, on July 20, 1969, so I wasn’t even on this Earth yet. But it was a big deal, with no precedent, and helped build a lot more interest in space. There wasn’t any reason […]