Pic – International Space Station & Sun

August 4, 2008

Germain photographer Martin Wagner, an amateur astronomer, snapped the image in June of the International Space Station transiting the sun .

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Take me to Mothership “Eve”

July 29, 2008

History is ready to be written.  This is going to be one of space travel industries greatest events in so many strategic ways.  Whether we look at technology, design, engineering etc…. this is going to be big.  The first flight is in September so keep reading.

Reference: WK2 Rollout PRESS RELEASE FINALMASTER

“Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, today pulled back the hangar doors on the new WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft that will ferry SpaceShipTwo and thousands of private astronauts, science packages and payload on the first stage of the Virgin Galactic sub-orbital space experience.
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2008 Power Beaming (Climber) Competition

July 20, 2008

This has been around for sometime but always interesting. So go out and create a space concept that can climb the product over a vertical distance: 1 km at a speed of 2 m/s, 5 m/s and win a prize purse: $900k, $2 million.  Check it out here

Well here’s a video of why

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WorldWide Telescope announced at TED2008

February 27, 2008

While listening at ASPEN@TED Microsoft announced the Worldwide Telescope. It is awesome.

Go to TED and watch the presentation.

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