Category Archives: Space

Posts about space, space travel, and the people, government agencies, private companies, and individuals who are involved in this.

Final Liftoff

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ErgoOne

Today the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on its final mission to the International Space Station. This marks the final liftoff of the space shuttle program itself. Watch the live feed from NASA’s web site. Although the future of space … Continue reading →

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CrowdSourcing and Space Exploration

Posted on May 1, 2011 by ErgoOne

Yesterday I read a blog by Ruth Suehle, an employee at Red Hat and blogger on OpenSource.com, that suggests that crowdsourcing and other forms of voluntary collaboration could replace taxes for funding some or all of the costs of space … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk Talks about Electric Cars, Colonizing Mars

Posted on April 24, 2011 by ErgoOne

Wall Street Journal reporter and pundit Alan Murray interviewed the founder and CEO of both Tesla (electric cars) and SpaceX, Elon Musk. In person Musk comes across as a rather understated engineer/geek with an accent that many Americans will mistake … Continue reading →

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SpaceX Gets $75 Million NASA Grant for Manned Spaceflight

Posted on April 18, 2011 by ErgoOne

Congratulations to the SpaceX team for talking our badly overstretched government into shaking a few dollars loose to develop the next generation of manned spaceflight vehicles! Now, BUILD US A MANNED SPACE FLIGHT VEHICLE YESTERDAY, dammit! Or at least in … Continue reading →

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Is the Google Lunar X-Prize Breaking Rule #1?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by ErgoOne

I’m a space flight fanatic. I grew up watching the Apollo lunar missions on TV. My mother got me up for the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969; I still remember hearing the crackling live broadcast of Neil Armstrong’s famous … Continue reading →

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Final Landing of Discovery

Posted on March 9, 2011 by ErgoOne

The space shuttle Discovery just landed for the last time. While it isn’t the Saturn 5 rocket, it has logged 27 years and almost 150,000 miles in space. That’s more than anything we’ve flown since the 1970s. Here’s a retrospective … Continue reading →

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Gets a Present ;)

Posted on March 6, 2011 by ErgoOne

I have a bunch of friends’ kids whose birthdays and/or Christmases I attended, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any kid happier to get a toy than Neil DeGrasse Tyson was to get this: Of course, Tyson is a … Continue reading →

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U.S. Air Force X-37B Space Plan Flies on Friday^H^H^H^H^H^H *SATURDAY*

Posted on March 4, 2011 by ErgoOne

Or so we hope. The weather at Cape Canaveral didn’t cooperate. <sigh>

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U.S. Air Force X-37B Space Plan Flies on Friday

Posted on March 3, 2011 by ErgoOne

According to a story posted today in Space.com, the United States Air Force X-37B unmanned space plane is due to take off Friday to some unnamed location, presumably outside the 100 km boundary to space, on an unspecified mission for … Continue reading →

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Serendipity: Discovery Launch as Seen from Airplane

Posted on February 26, 2011 by ErgoOne

This video is “trending” around the Internet, but I couldn’t resist showing it here.  Gorgeous!

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