Tag: NASA

As good as we are at wrangling Google's Image Search to locate what we want, we've always found the selection of NASA photos lacking. Earlier today, photo-sharing site Flickr announced NASA's new photo contributions to the Commons project, ensuring that we'll be spending our afternoons crawling through snapshots, like that of the amazing delta-shaped HL-10 above. ...

For the last-ever Space Shuttle mission, NASA has decided to let civilians vote on the astronauts' "wake up songs." Voters can choose from a list of past tunes (which includes ironic hits like "Free Fallin'" and "Rocket Man"), or upload a composition of their own. To our NASA friends: we have your solution. We've already rounded up some pretty sweet, spacey jams. Use them, and thank us later. ...

With the final launch dates set for space shuttles Discovery and Endeavour, NASA's next job will be finding homes for these hulking, retired spacecrafts, and for the Atlantis and Enterprise, as well. According to The Wall Street Journal, about 21 institutions have asked NASA for the right to store and showcase one of the four remaining U.S. space shuttles. However, few of them can likely afford ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. This Google Maps hack takes out everything but the location markers and names. Somehow, it's still navigable. [From: xn-slarsteinn-gbb.com, via: Kottke] Mary Roach ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Google not only dominates the search engine traffic rankings, but the site -- with an overwhelming 69-percent share -- also apparently reigns as the "king of malware." [From: PC World] The Snuggie people are actually welcoming, and openly asking for, continued Internet mockery. The new Snuggie Choice Film Awards will bestow ...

East recently met West in a tale of astronaut suits and cosmic gloves, flying in the face of the Cold War-era Space Race and its resulting political divide. That is to say, a Russian guy and a dude from Brooklyn collaboratively designed a new spacesuit, and unveiled it Friday at New York's Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. Nikolay Moiseev, from Moscow, and Ted Southern, from our favorite ...

Share If the whole space exploration gig doesn't work out, NASA might have a future in solving crimes... on Earth. According to Popular Science, a NASA rover equipped with ground-penetrating radar technology recently helped solve an 18-year-old California murder case. Back in 1991, Dawn Sanchez vanished after having last been seen in the car of her boyfriend, Bernardo Bass. Bass was a suspect, ...

Microsoft and NASA have teamed up to bring you and your humble desktop PC some of the highest-resolution images of Mars currently available. Using a combination of satellite imagery and elevation models, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope project has created an impressively detailed 3-D map of the surface of the Red Planet. The interactive tour, which simulates flying through Martian canyons and ...

We aren't 'football' experts, but even we notice that the flight path of the Adidas Jabulani ball, the official ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is unpredictable to say the least. Nearly every kick seems to send the ball knuckling, slicing or hooking past the goal. Apparently, there's a scientific reason for its awkward trajectory. According to The Mirror, aerodynamics experts at NASA claim that ...

After about 30 years of sending U.S. astronauts into space, NASA announced Thursday that space shuttles Discovery and Endeavour will make their last flights, respectively, on November 1st, 2010 and February 26th, 2011. According to Network World, Discovery's 10-day mission will be to deliver logistics carriers, which are basically cargo holds, and other spare parts to the International Space ...

A group of 13-year-old scientists from Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California recently discovered a hole in the roof of a Martian cave, only the second pit located near the Pavonis Mons volcano. Arizona State University's Mars Student Imaging Program lets students create science projects and commission cameras aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter in order to snap shots of the Red Planet's ...

Break out your shades, grab some SPF and... beware of your cell phones? According to Space.com, NASA scientists say the sun is ready for a period of increased activity, and the Earth could be in the line of fire. "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity," Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, told ...

Fans of the U.S. space program currently enjoy unparalleled and unprecedented access to the cosmos and cosmic travelers. In keeping with its goal to "inspire the next generation of explorers," NASA actively supports and entertainingly promotes public interaction with numerous outer space endeavors. The organization accomplishes its inspirational goal through a variety of participatory channels, ...

It's not quite as good as walking on it, but amateur space enthusiasts can now help scientists learn more about the moon by studying detailed, super high-resolution photographs. In fact, the pictures transmitted by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) are so fine and multitudinous that there is simply too much information for scientists to handle. According to NPR, Oxford University ...

In the near future, commercial airplanes could see a total design overhaul. It's a necessity since air travel, as Boing Boing points out, should double in frequency by 2035. As part of a $2.1 million research contract with NASA, MIT recently unveiled two new commercial airplane designs that could lead to more efficient and cheaper travel. The 180-passenger D ("double bubble") series and the ...