The Verge’s Katie Drummond has published an excellent interview with everyone’s favorite space nerd, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Category: Space
The history of the space suit ⇢
We live in a world where science fiction is hardly fiction at all.
On saving Columbia ⇢
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster is a dark chapter in NASA’s history, and many asked if things could have ended differently.
Lee Hutchinson at Ars has put together an amazing feature attempting to answer that question.
Mars rover photographs Earth ⇢
This poem by Stephen Crane came to mind:
A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’
‘However,’ replied the universe,
‘The fact has not created in me
a sense of obligation.’
NASA comments on Beyonce’s Challenger explosion sample ⇢
Fun fact: I was born the day the Challenger exploded.
A visual history of the Apollo missions ⇢
Ten cool non-US space projects ⇢
I had no idea Huygens existed until today.
Space Travel in Lego ⇢
Finally, something on Buzzfeed worth linking to.
On the Buran ⇢
Did you know that the USSR built a knock-off space shuttle in the 1980s? I didn’t.
The Plutonium Problem ⇢
NASA’s biggest challenge isn’t money; it’s fuel.
Voyager 1 Has Officially Left the Solar System ⇢
Jia-Rui C. Cook at NASA:
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager is in a transitional region immediately outside the solar bubble, where some effects from our sun are still evident.
On NASA’s Redesigned Flight Control Room ⇢
NASA’s iconic blue workstations have been replaced with far more modern-looking displays. The room still looks awesome, but it could be mistaken as the LAN party to end all LAN parties.