Stalking Venus

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.

Okay, so I could have just gone out into my back yard, pointed the camera at the ground and pressed *click*. However these are in fact, photos of the surface of another planet. Mars, to be precise.
It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly humans adapt to stuff. Just over 30 years ago, we [...]

Radio signals received at 21:55:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time / GMT) on Saturday confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touchdown 15 minutes earlier. The signals took that long to travel from Mars to Earth at the speed of light.
Michael Griffin, the NASA Administrator noted that this was the first [...]

NASA expert Rachel Osten, a Hubble Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. says that this solar flare is “massive enough to deplete the atmospheres of any living planet, sterilizing their surfaces…