Space News
NASA 2016 --Identifies Eight Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects: "Major Impact Could Cause Evolutionary Change"
The Daily Galaxy - 6 Aug 2016 15:02
NASA's asteroid-hunting spacecraft released a treasure trove of survey data, revealing hundreds of Near-Earth objects (NEOs) of which 72 are newly detected and eight of the 72 NEOs classified as potentially hazardous ast...
Iridescent Sunset Mammatus
Bad Astronomy - 6 Aug 2016 15:00
If every there is a Colorado summer sunset that doesn't leave me standing slack-jawed and awestruck, just turn me into Soylent Green. My wonder and joy will be dead. This was sunset in late July 2016. Lower-altitude cumu...
This Week at NASA: The Future of Aviation and More
SpaceRef - 6 Aug 2016 14:58
On Aug. 2, NASA's Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Jaiwon Shin, representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), aviation industry leaders and the academic research community participated in a works...
Video: NASA's new High Dynamic Camera Records Rocket Test
SpaceRef - 6 Aug 2016 17:30
This is footage of Orbital ATK's QM-2 solid rocket booster test taken by NASA's High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) camera. HiDyRS-X records high speed, high dynamic range footage in multiple exposures simultaneously ...
Spaceports and the Future of Space Exploration
Universe Today - 6 Aug 2016 15:47
Let yourself imagine a spaceport. I bet you put a grand concourse in the center with a fine selection of rockets descending and ascending together with space planes making their final approaches or taking off to worlds w...