Category Archives: Space

New Sample Return Robot Challenge Detailed

Posted on June 7, 2011 by dkohn96

From The Space Review via ASEE First Bell (June 7, 2011) In an article for the Space Review (6/6), Ben Brockert of Armadillo Aerospace wrote about the new NASA-funded Centennial Challenge called the Sample Return Robot Challenge, asking participants to … Continue reading →

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Very Large Telescope HD Timelapse Footage

Posted on May 29, 2011 by dkohn96

From: PopSci [with thanks to SvperNova09 of MidsouthMakers for pointing it out on IRC] There’s very little we can write to preface the imagery below, so we’ll just set the scene and get out of the way. The video below … Continue reading →

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Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First ‘Feathering’ Flight

Posted on May 25, 2011 by dkohn96

From: PopSci May 5, 2011 Virgin Galactic just keeps on ticking off the milestones on its way to becoming the first commercial company to take tourists on high-altitude flights to suborbital space and return them safely through the atmosphere to … Continue reading →

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International Space Station Comes Together

Posted on February 13, 2011 by dkohn96

Original FLASH VERSION

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Red Rover – Google Lunar X Prize

Posted on September 12, 2010 by dkohn96

If you don’t know, Google has a contest call the Lunar X Prize which “is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and … Continue reading →

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Building Curiosity: Robotic Arm Attached

Posted on August 24, 2010 by dkohn96

The latest report from the clean room where Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory) is being built. This week, the robotic arm was attached to the rover. Friday, August 20, 2010 2:00 AM

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ATHLETE Rover Busts a Move: A Dancing Robot

Posted on August 24, 2010 by dkohn96

So you think you can dance? The ATHLETE rover thinks it can, too.

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First Test Drive for Next Mars Rover

Posted on July 24, 2010 by dkohn96

This video shows the first test drive of the next Mars Rover, Curiosity, in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on July 23, 2010.

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Armstrong: Obama NASA plan ‘devastating’

Posted on April 13, 2010 by dkohn96

Astronauts warn plan would put U.S. on path to “mediocrity” April 13: Former astronauts Neil Armstrong, James Lovell and Eugene Cernan urged President Obama to reconsider what they warn would be “devastating” new policies for the future of NASA. NBC’s … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to President Obama Regarding Space Policy

Posted on April 13, 2010 by dkohn96

This open letter first appeared in wide circulation on the Orlando Sentinel’s blog and has since made the rounds elsewhere. Dear President Obama; America is faced with the near-simultaneous ending of the Shuttle program and your recent budget proposal to … Continue reading →

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