Stalking Venus

Nasa: In the year 2020, NASA will be back on the moon. This time NASA will explore thousands of miles of the moon’s surface with individual missions lasting six months or longer.
Just as we did during the Apollo program, NASA will be developing new concepts and technologies that also will benefit life on Earth.

One concept [...]

No, don’t ask me. I don’t know WTF it is either…

Fly me to the moon is the story is of the Apollo moon landing. The basic premise is that a bunch of flies out looking for adventure stow away aboard the Apollo 11 rocket and travel up to the moon with the astronauts, occasionally helping out or getting into trouble.
I badly want to cut this [...]

Virgin Galactic, the space faring branch of Richard Branson’s empire has unveiled the WhiteKnightTwo – an aeroplane with a twin fuselage, designed to carry a spaceship into suborbital flight.
The craft will carry SpaceShipTwo from Virgin Galactic’s New Mexico space port before releasing it 15km above the Earth’s surface, from where the spaceship will take its [...]

Holy crap! This awesome beast is the Evil Eye Galaxy, created when two ‘normal’ galaxies collided with each other. From NASA:
A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of [...]

WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, for the design, development and production of a new spacesuit system. The spacesuit will protect astronauts during Constellation Program voyages to the International Space Station and, by 2020, the surface of the moon.
“The award of the spacesuit contract completes the spaceflight hardware [...]

The Crew Mobility Chassis Prototype is NASA’s new concept for a lunar truck. Researchers are trying it out at Moses Lake, Wash., this week as part of a series of tests of lunar surface concepts.
One feature is its high mobility. Each set of wheels can pivot individually in any direction, giving the vehicle the ability [...]

Jesus fucking Christ, Frank – enough with the beans already!

The current mission, bound carries the bus-sized Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM, which is the station’s largest module. Together with the three-member station crew, and guidance from ground teams across the globe, the shuttle’s astronauts will install the module and Kibo’s robotic arm system.