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SpaceX, Boeing win $900 million to develop spacecraft for human space flight
NASA has awarded Boeing (not to be confused with "Boing Boing," you guys), SpaceX, and a Colorado-based systems integration firm more than a billion in contracts to develop spacecraft capable of...
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NASA's Ashwin Vasavada talks Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity with Boing...
In April, 2011, Boing Boing (well, our photographer pal Joseph Linaschke) visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a peek inside the clean room where the Mars rover, Curiosity, and other...
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When Curiosity was born: a peek at Mars rover during construction at JPL, one...
In April, 2011, the engineers at JPL gave Boing Boing permission to visit the clean room where the next Mars rover, Curiosity, had just been completed, for an exclusive first look. Photographer Joseph...
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Today, science willing, Curiosity rover lands on Mars. Here's how to watch.
Watch live streaming video from spaceflightnow at livestream.com This is it, guys. Tonight's the night. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity will attempt to land on the surface of Mars today....
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Curiosity rover "caught in the act of landing"—NASA photo
This just in from Mars: NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The...
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Totally Not Photoshopped photos from Mars (a tumblog of greatness)
More like this: "TOTALLY NOT 'SHOPPED PICS FROM MARS" (Thanks, Sean Bonner!) (more…)
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Mars Curiosity Rover: Boing Boing's $2.5 billion dollar question about image...
Photo: Two of the first images transmitted back by Curiosity, as seen on monitors at JPL 20 minutes after the rover landed on Mars. (Xeni Jardin) NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was a magical place...
View ArticleAnimated GIF of Mars Curiosity descent images
This animated GIF composed of descent images captured by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover as it headed towards landing is better than all the kittens on the internet combined. The video version is here....
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What NASA fears most on Mars (image)
"Curiosity makes me very angry, very angry indeed!" By David Silverman, of Simpsons and Tubatron fame.
View ArticleMars Curiosity rover: NASA's John Grunsfeld and Miles O'Brien on PBS NewsHour
[Video Link] It took just minutes for Curiosity to complete her landing sequence on Mars. But the journey to that point took years of work back here on earth. The celebration of the rover's successful...
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Interview with a Mars rover driver: Scott Maxwell of JPL
Photo (NASA JPL): The first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface from the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover, which are located on the rover's "head" or mast. The rim of Gale...
View ArticleEarth Illuminated: Dazzling ISS time-lapse photography, from NASA (video)
John Streeter, who is a television producer with NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, sends this cool video and tells Boing Boing: It is all real, all shot from the International Space Station and...
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Interview with developer of 2MP cameras taking those amazing Mars photos on...
As regular readers of this blog will recall, I asked a question of the Mars Curiosity team about imaging technologies during the post-landing press conference at NASA JPL a few days ago. Related:...
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Steve Jurvetson, on the recurring nightmare Neil Armstrong had for two years...
Venture capitalist, photographer, and master-level space fanatic Steve Jurvetson has been digging in to his archives for snapshots and relics related to the life and legacy of the late astronaut Neil...
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New Cassini eye candy: the changing seasons of Saturn
Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and director of CICLOPS in Boulder, CO, writes: For no other reason than that they are gorgeous, the Cassini imaging team is releasing today a set of fabulous...
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An airship boom in Southern California
Photo: the Aeroscraft in a hangar in CA. Image: Worldwide Aeros, Inc. In the Los Angeles Times, an article about an aerospace industry boom of sorts in Southern California, involving new twists on an...
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Shuttle Endeavour flies over California today, en route to LA retirement
Photo: Shuttle Endeavour's final landing at Edwards AFB. September 20, 2012. By Todd Lappin If you're in California today, Friday, Sept. 21, you may have a chance to see space shuttle Endeavour's...
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SpaceX launches first official cargo resupply mission to International Space...
SpaceX this weekend "successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on the first official cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station," at 8:35 p.m. ET on Sunday...
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At 9:03A ET, #Dragon was secured to the space station, its home for the next 2.5 weeks. twitter.com/SpaceX/status/…— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 10, 2012 For the second time in 2012, a SpaceX Dragon...
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Free-fall from stratosphere, live now
The Red Bull Stratos attempt is happening now. Above, an embed of the live stream. 7 weird but magical words: Red Bull Mission Control Roswell New Mexico! Expert parachuter Felix Baumgartner, best...
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