DIY Space: Eyes On NASA

There are several great tools available online designed to educate the public about space discoveries. The best ones use data gathered by our space faring machines and help put it all into an understandable form. Which is why NASA has developed the “NASA’s Eyes” program. NASA’s Eyes is a program that can be used for […]

DIY Space: Predict The Future of Space Exploration

Do you have a penchant for prophecy? Do your officemates hang on every word when you dole out the divination? Is your casting Kung Fu strong? Then maybe this will be an easy DIY for you. The folks at OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer) are asking for the public to come forecast […]

DIY Space: DIY Satellite Ground Station

Anyone who has been following this site knows that satellites are in many different roles, accomplishing many things beneficial to humanity. But none this really matters without a way to communicate with them. If a satellite takes a picture, how does that picture make its way to Earth? If a satellite requires an element set […]

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 […]