Tag: Space
British space exploration lives on! MoonLITE probe heading Moon-wards in 2012
Only about 35 years after the last American stood on the Moon, Britain is going back – with a decidedly non-thrilling unmanned probe.
Designed by mainly British scientists – with complicated navigational bits provided by NASA – the £100m MoonLITE probe will hopefully be on its way by 2012…
Bill Gates to potentially save world with $10m donation to new telescope
Everyone’s favourite billionaire is slightly poorer today (or next Wednesday, when the cheque clears), thanks to donating $10m to help build a massive new space-observing telescope.
The $400m telescope, being built in Chile, presumably because of all the cheap labour (or clear mountain skies to look through), will monitor the entire sky once every three days…
Taito launches Space Invaders 30th anniversary luggage collection
Amazingly, it’s It’s 30 years since the the world’s teens gave up on pinball and slots, replacing it with that arcade classic Space Invaders. And manufacturer Taito isn’t going to let that memorable anniversary pass it by – producing a Space Invaders 30th anniversary luggage collection.
Vinton Cerf, founding father of the internet, wants to send his baby into space
Say hello to Vinton Cerf, everyone. This old geezer claims he invented the internet, and is now throwing a strop due to earthlings being the only lifeform able to access the internet – he’s now thinking outside the box world and into the universe.
Cerf recently spoke at a conference in Seoul, South Korea, and expressed his desire for the world wide web to be accessible in space. He’s already started working with a bunch of boffins, namely engineers at a Jet Populsion Laboratory, creating…
NASA wants YOU to be a moonwalking astronaut
From the age of six, I wanted to be a top tech blogger (obviously), but before that I had my sights set on space, and a career as an astronaut. However, here’s some news that’s reawakened those early ambitions: NASA is on the hunt for new astronauts, and the successful candidates could be walking on the Moon by 2020!
The Digital Video Rocket – for your own Google Maps service
The Digital Video Rocket is a little home rocket, for amateur enthusiasts to fire off and, hopefully, avoid hospitalising themselves with severe burns.
The beauty of this potentially dangerous thing is its shock-resistant nose cone, which houses a little digital camera…
The next big thing? Libraries in space…
Billionaire Charles Simonyi is due to become the fifth ever space tourist in April, and he's not short of grandiose plans. For example, he thinks there should be libraries in space. "Everywhere where humans are I think there should be…
NASA and Google join forces to put data online
Geek-favourite and solar-explorer NASA has signed a deal with (also) geek-favourite and search-powerhouse Google to archive vast amounts of it's images and data online in an easy-to-search library…
