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Buck Rogers, the classic space hero that first emerged during a time when space exploration was merely a dream of the distant future, is being brought back to life. Just announced is the development 20 web episodes by The Cawley Entertainment Company, targeted to be launched (har har) in late ...
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There are some really great online resources out there about the Moon, but one of my recent favorites is MyMoonLPI . If we had a GLXP web award for the most hip and artistic lunar website of 2009, this site would totally win it. I mean, their blog even has duct tape on it. Awesome. I bring up ...
Physical Science
NASA Centennial Challenges @ SpaceFrontier : The Space Frontier Foundation's 2009 submission to NASA for six new prizes to Centennial Challenges. http://bit.ly/6NYtKi Some of the ideas include the "Explore Space!" student science fair competition where the prize is student access to a ...
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The X PRIZE team will be observing the Thanksgiving holiday this Thursday and Friday, so we'll be a little quieter than usual for the rest of the week. We wanted to leave on a fun note, however. Or a crazy note. Or... well, regardless of what it is, we left a note. Happy Thanksgiving to the ...
Physical Science
@ SoldTheMoon NASA awarded Astrobotic two SBIR/STTR contracts today, to study excavation robots and lunar gravity simulations. http://tinyurl.com/ylybmem Here's the list of SBIR awards from NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program ...
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N-Prize Yes, I made another one: N-Prize twitter list . One of the tweets there points out that there are a lot of recent updates on the Team Prometheus blog, such as: Frednet Lander Progress! More Liquid Fuel Engine Progress! More Launcher Progress! Tiny Satellite Prototype! Actually you ...
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Yes, inspired by Progressive Automotive X PRIZE blog post Team Summit Day #1 - Teams Get Schooled in Competition PR and Social Media , here's another twitter list: Progressive Automotive X PRIZE twitter list It's also in the "list of twitter lists" on the top right of the Space Prizes blog ...
Physical Science
Happy Friday Fun Day everyone! After the STS-129 Shuttle launch last week, one of our fans on Twitter asked if we knew of any good Blackberry apps for watching NASA TV. It occurs to me that there are quite a few apps out there dedicated to space, but I haven't yet seen a good collection of ...
Physical Science
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Here's a twitter list for the Astronaut Glove Challenge: twitter.com/spaceprizes/astronaut-glove-challenge Alternately, you could just go to twitter and search for some variant on the challenge name. As I'm finishing up this post, I see Doug Comstock posted the following a couple minutes ago! ...
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40 years ago today, the Apollo 12 lunar lander, "Intrepid", placed it's four frisbee-shaped footpads down on the lunar surface at the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum), but today, you can still see the footprints of Astronauts Al Bean and Pete Conrad , thanks to recent images from the LRO ...
Physical Science
There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it into a fruit salad. That was the fundamental premise when just over a year ago the Omega Envoy Team , the only student led team, became an officially registered team ...
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Am I reading my tweets correctly? Did a group of people just cheer when they announced that the Space Shuttle hatch to the crew compartment passed the leak check? And look how many people are following the current fuel cell issue, with interest piqued... Houston we've finally got a Shuttle ...
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@ NextGiantLeap Good luck to @ pkhomer this Thursday, re: the $400K Astronaut Glove Challenge! http://bit.ly/2blddB From the linked NASA IPP press release: At least two competitors are expected, including Peter Homer, the winner of the competition held in 2007. @ selenokhod I uploaded a ...
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Yesterday, in celebration of the LCROSS water discovery, Google put up a Google Doodle with a LCROSS theme. If you click on it you get search results on the water news. The Doodle still up this morning. I'm not sure if the Doodles are based on UTC time or not always up exactly 1 day. In case ...
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Space Fellowship hosts alternative Google Lunar X PRIZE Forum - Space Fellowship Most Valuable Real Estate in the Solar System: Water on Lunar South Pole - Peter Diamandis at The Launch Pad: I’m particularly excited for all of the teams building vehicles for the Google Lunar X PRIZE . ... ...
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By: Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation Today’s announcement by NASA of significant water on the south pole of the Moon is scientifically critical, economically astounding and extremely important for the long-term future of humanity. Further, this finding now defines the most ...
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thelaunchpad.xprize.org - 19 days ago
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NASA has just officially announced this morning that
significant amounts of water ice have been discovered after...
analyzing data from the LCROSS mission, a spacecraft which plummeted into a permanently shadowed crater named Cabeus last month. Holding up 2-gallon buckets during the press ...
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LCROSS Changes the Game, Discovers Significant Amounts ...
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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden: "It's not about money. It's about vision, and about inspiration. I commend [the teams] for their spirit of innovation and spirit of exploration."
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thelaunchpad.xprize.org - 18 days ago
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This is the video that was shown at
the NGLLC awards ceremony in Washington DC last week....
It gives a nice recap of this year's competitors: The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge has ended, but if the past two months (and several years!) ...
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Keeping Up With Lunar Landers
