Space – Techcitement*

Real Life Astronaut Rock Star Covers David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” In Space

Matt Algren — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:35:06 +0000

Canadian-born astronaut Chris Hadfield hands over command of the International Space Station today, but not before taking the Blue Marble by storm with a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” performed from space. It’s a remarkably well done music video and just about the coolest thing ever. (See the original “Space Oddity” music video from […]

SXSW: Richard Garriott On The Cheapest, Best Ways To Go To Space

Ben Masten — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:00:23 +0000

Richard Garriott’s Father, Owen, was an astronaut. The neighbors on either side of his childhood home, Joe Engle and Hoot Gibson, were astronauts. “Going to space,” Garriott said at SXSW on Monday, “seemed like something everybody just did.” Garriott has since made millions developing video games (famously inserting himself into the Ultima series of role-playing […]

SXSW: 100 Year Starship Panel Explains How Interstellar Travel Can Affect Life On Earth

Justin Davis — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:22:52 +0000

Raucous applause greeted guests of the 100 Year Starship panel at SXSW as they took the stage. It seems little introduction was necessary for this crowd to heap praise upon the panel, but the moderator Benjamin Palmer (of the interactive marketing firm The Barbarian Group) introduced the panelists anyway as: Dr. Mae Jemison (astronaut, first […]

SXSW: Ariel Waldman Talks About Black Holes Vomit And Hacking Space

Justin Davis — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:00:56 +0000

Ariel Waldman thinks that no matter how much you know about space, you can learn a thing or two more. And she’s right. Waldman has made her mark as an interaction designer and also as a research affiliate at the Institute For The Future, a group with the lofty goal to “turn foresight into the critical […]

Social Media Reaches New Heights As Astronaut Updates Tumblr And Twitter

Justin Davis — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:13:19 +0000

Never has liking a post on Tumblr or retweeting someone felt so profound. Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, presently floating through space on the ISS as the flight engineer, has taken it upon himself to take jaw-dropping pictures of the Earth from space and then post those pictures on Tumblr. There is an astronaut currently in […]

Forty-three Years Later, Remembering The Largely Forgotten Apollo 12

Rick Diehl — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:00:51 +0000

Looking out across the Atlantic Ocean from the shore of Cape Canaveral, as far as the eye could see, the sky was gray with low clouds and a light rainfall pattering across the choppy waves. It had been raining the morning of November 14, 1969 and mission control at Kennedy Space Center in Florida had […]

NASA, Let’s Give It Another Shot

Jon Clinkenbeard — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:00:41 +0000

I’m sorry I dumped you for a Virgin. They seemed so exciting at the time, but now I know the truth. I need a more experienced partner. Since we broke up, I’ve done a lot of thinking. I realize now that I focused on all the negative things, and I ignored all the positive contributions […]

Techfiction: The Dangers Of Space Mining

Jeremy Goldstone — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:00:50 +0000

Tuesday’s announcement by startup Planetary Resources that they have plans to start a privatized asteroid mining operation seems the stuff of science fiction made reality. This is literally a plot point in countless science fiction books and movies, usually to get the protagonists in an out of the way location so all kinds of space chaos can break […]

Planetary Resources = Miners In Space!

Jeremy Goldstone — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:00:35 +0000

What do director James Cameron, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page (executive chairmen of Google, respectively), and Ross Perot Jr. have in common? They’re all going into the space mining business, backing the startup company Planetary Resources. Planetary Resources hopes to have a private spacecraft operational in less than two years, using it to mine for […]

SnApp Judgments: Gravity Burst

Jeremy Goldstone — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:33:55 +0000

Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free game is Gravity Burst by Coldwired Games which usually runs […]