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SPACE CHIMP LIVES
Via @HistoryInPics
A happy chimp holding a newspaper after surviving his trip to space, 1961.
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7th Aug 2015 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Trailer Park: Interstellar
After True Detective I'll happily watch Matthew McConaughey do anything - but heading out into space? Brrrrrring it on.
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16th May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet
All Your Ships Are Us
#Nerdvana: Dirk Loechel has worked out the relative sizes of pretty much every sci-fi spacecraft ever, and compiled them in one handy diagram - here's the Death Star-sized version
1st Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mars: It's On
The world's first space tourist Dennis Tito wants to go to Mars next. Just to inspire Americans though.
27th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Great Time Machine Race
It's on... (Or will be.) (Or has been.) Take your pick between the Verdrehung Fan(TM) and the Space-Time Twisting By Light project.
Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng, is working on the Verdrehung Fan(TM) which involves effecting time with specially synthesized electromagnetic fields. Meanwhile, the plan from Ronald L. Mallett, PhD utilises a rotating ring laser generating a gravitational field that then twists space and time.
21st Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore has died, aged 89. One of the stalwarts of the BBC, Moore's 50 year stint as presenter of the Sky At Night remians a world record, as well as providing hours of chill-out viewing.
9th Dec 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
ISS Startrails - TRONized
footage from the International Space Station rendered to look like Tron light-trails
23rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Space Shuttle Goes On Holiday
Lovely video from @VincentLaforet, featuring space shuttle Endevour landing in LA for its retirement. Check the web for dozens of other videos...
24th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth... It's Awesome.
Have just come acrosss this outstanding timelapse film, shot by the crew of the International Space Staion and assembled by Michael König.
6th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Imagining The Eighth Dimension
phase space, super strings and an ant's perspective on the third dimension: a short intro to multidimensional thinking via Brainpickings (WARNING: may induce feelings of Keanu-woah)
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20th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth Enlarged
Amazing 64 Megapixel image of Earth up over at Flickr, courtesy of NASA's new Earth-observing Suomi NPP satellite.
28th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: The Space Shuttle
Bid farewell to the Space Shuttle program, which touched down from it's final mission today. Photo above was talken from the Intrenational Space Station, as the shuttle took off.
22nd Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Farewell To The Space Shuttle
With only one mission remaining, there's still time for a Space Shuttle photo-op - and Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli got this amazing image as he departed the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz capsule. More fantastic potential wallpapers on the official Flickr page.
Via BBC
10th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Keep Watching The Skies
as any of you who've flown Chimp Air know, we're always watching the skies, but it looks like @stefmara has won that game: she tweeted these pics of the shuttle from her iPhone
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18th May 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Simulated Return From Mars
We reported on the simulated mission to Mars in April 2009 - and now after a two week simulated holiday on the red planet, our trusty simulated astronauts are heading back, for a simulated landing in November 2011.
Via Engadget (including simulation joke)
P.S. Don't miss their write up on the 100 Year Starship initiative to send ageing astronauts on a one-way mission to Mars by 2030.
3rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Big Picture: Space Shuttle Challenger
It was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster last week - a traumatising event that I remember watching on live TV as a child and one that would set back the space programme by many years.
Via The Big Picture
1st Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
NBA UFO sighting
San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili spotted something in the sky
13th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Life On Board The International Space Station
alarm music: Muse, Macho Man and the Wallace & Gromit theme tune
25th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mission To Mars(ish)
It's been 18 months since we last covered it - and they're only just setting off - but the Mars 500 project kicks off today in Moscow.
6 would-be astronauts will be sealed inside a simulation space capsule to document the effects of an 18 month round trip to the red planet. The simulator even includes a mock-up of the planet's surface - so the effects of EVA can be studied after the 6 month feet-up session.
One thing that has changed in 18 months is the arrival of Twitter - which Italian pseudonaut Diego Urbina will be updating during the trip. The mission also has a blog.
Via BBC
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3rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Don't Talk To Aliens
"Don't talk to aliens" is Stephen Hawking's advice in a piece over at The Times.
"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans".
26th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Get your own Space Shuttle
With retirement approaching, NASA is looking for homes for it's 3 remaining Space Shuttles. Contenders include that big aircraft carrier that was in I Am Legend, the Johnson Space Center in Houston (a family favourite) and 'Plant 42' where they were built.
Get your proposal into NASA as soon as possible.
23rd Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
PLEASE NOTE IT IS NO LONGER MOD POLICY TO RECORD, RESPOND TO, OR INVESTIGATE UFO SIGHTINGS
the MoD have given up on UFO reports
7th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lunar Lander: Crash Mission
Nasa's latest mission: to crash the LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft into the moon to see if there's any water up there
8th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Alien In Winchester High Street
not sure this "alien sighting" really sounds that much different to a normal Saturday afternoon on Winchester High Street really...
7th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
20 Years of Satellite TV
Interesting article up at Wired about the first direct-to-consumer satellite TV, launched by BSB in 1989.
28th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
More MOD UFO Files
more UFO files have been released detailing incidents from UK skies between 1981 and 1996. 1996 had one of the highest rates of sightings for years. In other news, the X Files was popular on UK TV in 1996.
18th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
UFO Spot on BBC North
UFO spotting made easy - just watch the news!
11th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Aerosith
These guys probably would have rocked the house at Queen Amidala and Anakin's wedding. www.aerosith.com
31st Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lunar Rover!
Great variation on that Beastie Boys driving game we reported on last month - here's an official Lunar Rover simulator, which lets you cruise around the Apollo landing sites ...and in fact, the entire moon.
UPDATE: Try the Lunar Lander too.
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Where The Eagle Landed
Just in time for the 40th Anniversary of the moon landing, NASA has released some images from the Lunar Reconnaissence Orbiter, which is mapping the moon.
The images show various landing sites from the Apollo landing - and you can even see the footprint trails between the lander and instruments test site in some.
21st Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Nasa Hi-Def Moon Fail
has Nasa really taped over its hi-def moon footage? hate it when that happens
20th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Out of this world movies
Indie moviemaker site Shooting People don't seem impressed by the contents of the video shelf on the International Space Station - which is disclosed here. Regarding classics such as Beverly Hills Cop (an easy 5 stars IMHO) as inferior, they are running a poll to select more suitable 'highbrow' titles to suggest.
3rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth In Motion
If you thought yesterday's time lapse movies were good, then don't miss Wired's article featuring NASA sattelite time-lapse movies, that have taken literally years to shoot. Urbanisation of Dubai above, Amazon deforestation below.
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12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Wot no hover-cars?
At the 1964 World's Fair in New York, a model city titled Futurama promised jet-packs, paperless offices and traffic-free highways. 40 years later and we're still waiting.
11th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Better than cable
The crew of the International Space Station jumped the queue to get a home copy of the new Star Trek movie - they were beamed up a copy direct from NASA.
9th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Intergalactic
Virgin Galactic's space plans are picking up speed, with a recent test flight from the mothership. Wired has the story.
13th May 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Words Jim...But Not As We Know Them
It seems Science Fiction is creating more new words than Science itself. No entry for the Wamp Rat yet though.
Zero Gravity
7th Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pseudo Mission To Mars
No one's quite sure how man would handle the multi-month schlep out to Mars, with suspected muscle wastage and cabin fever would be among the chief concerns.
There's one way to find out however: lock three volunteers in a mock-up capsule in Moscow and lock the door for three months. That's an edition of Big Brother I'd like to see.
The test is just a warm-up for a 500 day test later this year. The Telegraph has the full story.
1st Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
What's With The Matter?
Jet packs, re-useable spaceplanes - what's next, teleportation?
25th Feb 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Truth Is Out There... In Homey Airport?!
Area 51's had a makeover - it's now called "Homey Airport" you'd never think aliens would land anywhere that sounded that friendly, would you?
24th Feb 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
International Space Station Tour
You're going to need a slow day at the office for this one. NASA has released a tour of the ISS, originally shot for Nasa TV. The piece has now been split into 4 chunks on YouTube, the first of which you can see above. Click for parts 2, 3 and 4.
26th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Space Crunch
With can't-do-no-wrong President Obama promising to solve the Middle East crisis and reverse the Credit Crunch during his first day in office, less press is being given to those projects losing out - one of which might be the proposed manned space-flight project of Ares 1 and Orion.
Luckily the private sector of Space Travel is booming, with Space-X's Falcon 9 being wheeled into position at the Cape.
12th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
What A Piece Of Junk!
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts.
9th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
140 Years Of Watching The Skies
nice UFO gallery in the Telegraph. In unrelated news, the X Files movie is out on DVD
16th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Eye of the Storm
If you think freezing temperatures and snow in October is tough going, check out the never-ending, hexagonal, 325mph cyclones that rage across both the North and South poles of Saturn. NASA has the data.
30th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Space Elevator
If they can just crack the carbon nanotube problem, Japan hopes to let us take the express elevator to space.
14th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet