Sunday, May 31, 2015

Random Sentimental Post: Farewell, Kirby of '93... Hello, Kirby of 2015!

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So yesterday evening, a salesman randomly stopped by my house to promote a new Kirby vacuum cleaner that was capable of shampooing carp...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Dawn Update: Getting Ever So Closer to the Dwarf Planet...

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NASA / JPL - Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Dawn Spirals Closer to Ceres, Returns a New View (Press Release - May 28) A new view of C...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Legacy of the Phoenix Mars Lander: Its Successor Has Taken Shape...

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NASA / JPL - Caltech / Lockheed Martin NASA Begins Testing Mars Lander in Preparation for Next Mission to Red Planet (Press Release - May...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Onward to Pluto: The Dwarf Planet Gets Nearer and Nearer...

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NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute New Horizons Sees More Detail as It Draws Clos...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The Europa Clipper Mission Is So Close To Becoming Real...

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NASA / JPL - Caltech NASA’s Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments (Press Release) NASA has selected nine science ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

LightSail Lifts Off! (And So Did The X-37B...)

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The Planetary Society Bill Nye & Planetary Society Celebrate LightSail™ Spacecraft Test Launch (Press Release) Citizen-funded sola...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

(The NBA Draft Lottery) Not The Same As Winning A Championship, But Oh Well...

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Lakers.com No. 2 to the Lakers (Press Release) Things are looking up in Los Angeles. It was quite a Tuesday night for the Lakers ,...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

(OTHER SPACE) An Improv Show and Q&A Session in Hollywood...

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So last night, I went to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Hollywood to attend a special screening of the Yahoo! web series, Ot...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

A Dwarf Planet Flyby: T-Minus 61 Days and Counting...

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NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Faintest Known Moon...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Yet Another Reason to Make the Europa Clipper Mission a Reality...

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NASA / JPL - Caltech NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt (Press Release) NASA laboratory experim...