Category: Space
Posts about space travel, technology and colonization.
Mars Space Station in the Works
A manned mission to Mars was once the stuff of science fiction, now it is the equivalent of this generation’s Apollo Program. It will take a Herculean effort to send astronauts on a journey of hundreds of […]
DARPA’s New Space Shuttle Getting Closer to Reality
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA, is known for conceiving and testing some pretty advanced (read: cool) stuff. One of the projects getting closer to fruition that is drawing considerable attention, both technological as […]
Darren Beyer Interviewed on Paradelphia Radio
Paradelphia is a very cool radio show about everything from alien abductions to paranormal activity to space and science fiction. I had the opportunity to be on the show this week and answer questions about […]
SpaceX to Mars in 2018!
Yesterday, SpaceX announced plans to send an unmanned capsule to Mars – in 2018! Company CEO Elon Musk has long had a vision of establishing a permanent manned presence on the Red Planet and this planned […]
Aurora Borealis: HD Style
NASA recently uploaded this ~5 minute time lapse video of the Aurora Borealis (and some Aurora Austalis thrown in for good measure) taken from the International Space Station (ISS) in ultra-HD (4k). This is a […]
Inflatable Module Attached to Space Station
Earlier today, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was connected to the International Space Station (ISS). As I wrote just before it launched, it is a test for the use of inflatable spacecraft and will be […]
Visiting Nearby Stars Using Tiny Sails
What do Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg and entrepreneur Yuri Milner have in common – aside from being very rich? They want to build a bunch of tiny spaceships and sail them to nearby stars. They call […]
A Good Week for Landing Rockets
On Saturday private launch vehicle company Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket and capsule. The capsule released from the main rocket and reached an apogee of 64.2 miles before safely parachuting back to Earth. The […]
Lost in Space: Japanese Space Telescope Suffers Mysterious Fate
On February 17th, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hitomi Space Telescope on a mission to study highly energetic events in the cosmos by looking at x-ray emissions. It successfully got to its […]
Jupiter Strike – Our Neighbor Takes Another Hit
Two amateur astronomers in different parts of the world took video through their telescopes of a sizable object slamming into Jupiter. While reviewing footage, Austrian Gerrit Kernbauer saw a flash of light on one side […]
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