Romulans Uncloaked?

Whatever it is, it’s rather large and doesn’t appear until hit by the solar flare. An alien spacecraft parked next to Mercury? A giant object the size of a planet that appeared lurking near Mercury in a NASA footage has caught the attention of alien-hunters who say it could be a “cloaked” spaceship parked near [...]

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Curiosity Right Over

Unlike the Russians, at least we can get our Mars missions out of Earth’s orbit. NASA launches super-size Mars rover to red planet The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA’s Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life. It will [...]

Partly Cloudy With A Chance Of Falling Satellites

Here we go again, this time it’s the German’s turn to randomly drop [expletive deleted] from orbit. Falling German Satellite Poses 1-in-2,000 Risk of Striking Someone This Month A big German satellite near the end of life is expected to plunge back to Earth this month, just weeks after a NASA satellite fell from orbit, [...]

Back In The Soyuz Again?

The good news is that we probably won’t have to abandon the International Space Station after all. The bad news is that we’re still dependent on the Russians to get our astronauts there. NASA Confirms Russian Soyuz Failure Findings An independent NASA panel reviewing data related to the Aug. 24 failure of the Russian Soyuz [...]

Picking Up Where We Left Off

NASA may be grounded, but the Chinese are just getting warmed up. Rocket launches Chinese space lab A rocket carrying China’s first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country. The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT). The rocket’s [...]

Look Out Below!

As they say, what goes up, must come down. Round and round she goes, where she’ll hit, nobody knows. Huge Defunct Satellite Falling to Earth Faster Than Expected, NASA Says NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the [...]

Abandon Ship!

What’s I say? This is what happens when you put all your eggs in the Russian technology basket and the basket falls apart. Space station could be abandoned in November Astronauts may need to temporarily withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of this year if Russia is unable to resume manned flights [...]

Can You Hack It?

Calling all hackers, do you pack what it takes? NSA is looking for a few good hackers The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: Prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.” Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. government to fight the [...]

And Then There Were None

Welcome home Atlantis, a safe ending to the thirty year space shuttle program that saw the tragic loss of 40% of the fleet. Ghostly Landing of Atlantis Closes America’s Space Shuttle Era Forever Barely discernable in the pre-dawn twilight and appearing as an eerie, ghost like figure, Space Shuttle Atlantis and her four person crew [...]

Who Wants To Fly The Space Shuttle?

Apparently, all you need are some computer hacking skills. Unreal, how many years now has computer network cybersecurity been a known issue? NASA Computer Servers Insecure, Open to ‘Catastrophic’ Attack Computer servers on NASA’s mission network are at high risk for Internet-based attacks that could have “catastrophic” effects on the space agency, according to a [...]