Tag Archives: NASA

With the successful recovery of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, private space exploration takes a great leap forward. But it's also a reminder of the history of private business in manned spaceflight, both real and imagined.

An animated tour of the known universe gives a glimpse of cosmic structure�and hints at our limited view.

With NASA's discovery of a new species of arsenic-tolerant bacteria appearing to dissolve in a highly-public storm of professional scrutiny, we're all enrolled a crash course in the rites and rituals of scientific practice.

We've met the shadow biosphere, and it is us.

An elegant new site presents the radio transcripts of early NASA missions in a textual dramatization.

Perhaps the secret to extraterrestrial life resides here on Earth.

Pelted with snow, NASA's probe captured images of the very active comet Hartley 2 on its November 4 flyby.

Researchers with NASA's Icebridge campaign are completing their fourth tour of flights over the polar regions to image ice sheets and glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland. The places they measure and scan are crucial to our understanding of global climate�and forbiddingly hostile as well.

The Space Shuttle Program, which employs five thousand people and comprises more than a quarter of NASA infrastructure, is set to end in early 2011. How to commemorate the program that has defined manned spaceflight for more than thirty years? How about with an astronaut-helmet tea cozy!

It's a new day at Gearfuse, powered by the light of science and the storm of progress.