The Safe Way to Observe a Volcano

I suppose it isn’t ironic to anyone that Iceland is home to some hot attractions, such as volcanoes. On August 28, 2014, their Bardarbunga (sounds like something out of Ninja Turtles) volcano erupted a bit. All sorts of tools have been used to observe the angry mountain: webcams, helicopters, cars, and planes. Of course, most […]

A Few More Years of Satellite Highlights

A little birdie let me know last week that Broadbandwherever.net has created a new poster (pictured above) illustrating satellite highlights of the last thirty or so years. Okay, okay–sure this is their way of getting their name out there, but with this poster it’s an interesting and educational way. The poster sort of adds on […]

The History of Soviet Space Dogskis

There were a couple of Soviet space history posts published on The Guardian’s pages on 1 Sept. Both talk about the dogs for the Soviet space program. However, this one talks about the Soviet Union’s odd hero-worship of the dogs that were sent into space through their space program. The post also mentions some of […]

Geckos–A Love Tragedy In Space

There’ve been a couple of posts on this site about the Russian scientists’ peculiar space mission involving geckos and flies. What first looked like a doomed mission became a satellite of hope for the geckos, as the Russian team regained control of the satellite in which the geckos where orbiting. Alas, the gecko love story […]